If a Medical School is Just Part of the "Biomedical Industry," Who Will Do Medical Education?
A little while ago, we discussed questions raised by the pre-existing financial relationships of Dr Laurie Glimcher, the new incoming Dean of Weill Cornell Medical School. Dr Glimcher is also the longest serving director of Bristol-Myers-Squibb, and has a number of other financial relationships with drug and device companies. A new interview with Dr Glimcher [...]
The Mighty Sarrazin
Thilo Sarrazin, an executive on Germany’s central bank whom we last met saying that “immigrants are making our country dumber″, now “triggers a fresh storm with views on the ‘Jewish gene’”. Central bank official Thilo Sarrazin, already under fire in Germany for using shock talk about the country’s Muslim immigrants, has sparked a new uproar [...]
Carotid Atherosclerotic Disease: Pathologic Basis for Treatment, 1st ed. 2008
Carotid Atherosclerotic Disease: Pathologic Basis for Treatment Giuseppe Sangiorgi, David R. Holmes, Kenneth Rosenfield, L. Nelson Hopkins, et al. ISBN-10: 1841841498 ISBN-13: 978-1841841496 Carotid Atherosclerotic Disease: Pathologic Basis for Treatment reviews the natural history of carotid atherosclerotic plaque and outlines different pathologic characteristics of asymptomatic and symptomatic carotid plaque with the intent to give a [...]
CARE PLAN MEETINGS
A Care plan meeting at a nursing home is really the adult version of a parent teacher conference. Required by federal law to occur quarterly, Care Plan meetings involve department chairs and often, family members, those holding powers of attorney, are invited to take place in this brief but important HEALTH CARE STATUS UPDATE. They [...]
Toxic epidermal necrolysis and Stevens-Johnson syndrome
The topic was recently reviewed in Critical Care Medicine. These are now considered overlapping conditions with distinctions based on the percentage skin involvement.
