SUNY Downstate histology
Good resource.
The EMR facilitates higher coding. What does it really mean?
Some concerning questions asked in this post from Health Care Renewal.
3-gram reduction in daily salt intake would decrease coronary heart disease, stroke, and death
The U.S. diet is high in salt, with the majority coming from processed foods. Reducing dietary salt is a potentially important target for the improvement of public health. Reducing dietary salt by 3 g per day (1200 mg of sodium per day) is projected to reduce the annual number of new cases of CHD by [...]
Mea Culpa
Guy White has got my number; while I had hoped that my statement that apparently none of the scientists for whom units of measurement were named were Jewish would slip by the blogosphere as a mere addendum to my argument that we don’t need more foreign scientists, and as an expression of the idea that [...]
ABIM president on quality
Christine Cassel, MD is president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). Guest blogging at Kevin MD, she writes about quality in the delivery of health care. In the first half of the post she develops the premise that it takes both good systems of care and good individual docs to do [...]
