Some Call it "Tyranny" – Top Leaders of University of California (Including Leaders of Academic Medicine) Demand Bigger Pensions for Themselves
The state of California, and its flagship university system, the University of California, have been under extreme financial pressure lately.  The 36 Executives’ Demands However, that apparently has not decreased the University’s hired managers’ and executives’ sense of entitlement.  They are threatening to sue if their pensions are not increased.  As reported by the San [...]
The Syndrome of Useless Information
I occasionally elevate comments and replies to the level of full posts if I feel they better illustrate and clarify significant points I raise. In my Jan. 9, 2010 post “Does the CEO of Google Use Google? – And: Platform, Platform, Who′s Got The Platform?” I lamented the intrusion of ill-informed, reductionistic, “database platform”-centric views [...]
It’s a sad state of affairs when not even internists know what Internal Medicine is
Retired Doc with more on “What is Internal Medicine?”
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) biannual update 13 August 2010 UK Iatrogenic CJD Incidents Report
Emerging Infections/CJD Published on: 13 August 2010 Next update: 12 February 2011 Last updated: 13 August 2010, Volume 4 No 32 (PDF file, 280 KB) HPR Home Infection Reports Emerging Infections/CJD Emerging Infections Emerging Infections Summary (July 2010) CJD Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) biannual update (2010/2) Emerging Infections Summary (July 2010) The Emerging Infections and Zoonoses [...]
The devaluation of the internist—from specialist to primary care provider
No one I can recall from my training days went into Internal Medicine to “do primary care.” You went into Internal Medicine because you wanted to be a specialist. The field has devolved considerably since then. DB and Carolyn Poplin opine.
