"Good Managers" And Complex Technological Projects – Recipe for Poor Results?
Once more on the topic of CIO’s and other health IT leaders lacking in solid healthcare informatics and clinical credentials, there’s this letter in today’s WSJ that I think says it all about complex technological projects, including (perhaps especially) healthcare IT. Emphases mine: Wall St. JournalLetter to the EditorDec. 16, 2010Manhattan Spirit for Cyber Defense [...]
The Stealth Marketing of Medical Devices: The Biotronik Example
We have frequently discussed the use of organized, deceptive stealth marketing campaigns to influence physicians to prescribe pharmaceuticals. Now more information is coming to light about similar campaigns to influence physicians to use particular medical devices As reported in the New York Times, based on documents supplied apparently by a corporate whistleblower, here are some [...]
Media HSDD: "Hyperactive Sexual Disorder Detection"
You might have seen the news stories with their facile headlines: Women with low libidos ‘have different brains’ Women with low libidos have a different mental response to intimate situations than those with a ‘normal’ sex drive, researchers have found. By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent, in DenverPublished: 5:59AM BST 26 Oct 2010 MRI scans show [...]
Making “Light” of Gluten Sensitivity Will Harm More than Help
A patient sent me a response from an “As the Doctor” column hosted by Drs. Oz and Roizen entitled “Don’t buy into gluten phobia by cutting grains”. This response was to a reader’s question who asked: “My family consumes a lot of 100 percent whole-grain wheat products, but I′ve heard so much about gluten problems [...]
Riaz reasons
Thanks to Samantha Riley at the NHS South East Coast for leading me to this thoughtful blog by Riaz Dharamshi, a junior doctor working in London. I am adding it to my blog roll. Excerpts: We often get distracted by the challenge of creating change in the NHS, and forget that a lot of leadership [...]
