Manual of Radiology: Acute Problems and Essential Procedures, 2nd ed. 2008
Manual of Radiology: Acute Problems and Essential Procedures (Lippincott Manual Series (Formerly known as the Spiral Manual Series)) John Eng and Clifford Weiss ISBN-10: 0781799643 ISBN-13: 978-0781799645 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, this manual is ideal for residents in training, especially those junior residents learning how to perform procedures and [...]
Obamacare Unconstitutional!
I begin this post a few thousand feet in the air, in the aisle seat in the rear of the aircraft. I suppose it is fitting that a gastroenterologist would be in the rear section. Fair is fair. Flying is a psychological test of one’s mettle. After enduring the security process, which is designed to [...]
Ms. Sebelius and Wellpoint’s Rate Increases: Doesn’t HHS Have Enough to Worry About?
Egads, doesn’t Ms. Sebelius have enough to worry about? Our HHS Secretary faxed a letter to California-based Anthem Blue Cross, expressing how ‘disturbed’ she was by ‘unaffordable’ rate increases ‘as much as 39%’ in the face of ‘soar′ing $2.7 billion profits. She calls for greater transparency on the ratio of medical vs. overhead costs and [...]
The Curious Case of Pfizer’s Asbestos Claims
Here is a very strange and long-running story that raises some questions about how health care organizations are lead, but seems to have bee covered only in the business press. Pfizer Goes Into the Asbestos Business (in 1968), Faced Hundreds of Thousands of Lawsuits (in the 1980s), Promised to Settle (in 2004) Here is the [...]
Sleep apnea—what the hospitalist needs to know
This article in Today’s Hospitalist is a compilation of links to primary literature and pearls from HM 2010 sessions.
