Would someone please figure out a way to rectify med rec?
Happy says patients need to own it, but they won’t. Early in my blogging career, naïve about the law of unintended consequences, I thought Joint Commission’s med rec initiative was a great idea. Turns out it hasn’t worked. When it comes to medication safety across transitions of care we’re no better off, maybe even worse [...]
Management of cardiac arrest in pregnancy
A free full text review. The review is helpful but as you would expect there’s not a lot of good science to guide us.
More Executives Prospering Despite the Financial Distress of their Hospitals
Cases that demonstrate the contrast between compensation given to the hired executives of health care organizations and their or their organizations’ performance continue to appear.  Last week we discussed how freely million dollar plus compensation is given to executives of nominally non-profit hospitals, and discussed how well some executives were paid just prior to charges [...]
Should I read White Coat, Black Hat?
I’m not in the habit of reviewing other people’s book reviews but two articles on the book in question, one by Thomas Sullivan and the other by Sally Satel, are worth mentioning here because they nicely address the broader controversy about the relationship between the medical profession and industry. Now that I’ve read those two [...]
Dangerous Celebrity Doctors Who Prey on People with Diabetes
Not a week goes by than I don′t get an email from someone directing me to the web site of yet another physician with poor or nonexistent credentials in endocrinology who’s trying to duplicate the financial success of people like Neal “I’m a psychiatrist but that doesn′t keep me from making millions giving bad advice [...]
