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Author: SkepticalScalpel

Is Burnout Talk Causing More Burnout?

Almost every day for the last few years, someone is writing about physician burnout or depression. The problems begin in medical school. A recent paper featured drawings that medical students had done depicting faculty as...

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The Ultimate Resident Evaluation

It comes as no shock to me, and probably many other current and former program directors, that a recent study showed faculty overall performance evaluations of residents do not correlate with their scores on the yearly American...

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Baffling Deficiency of New ICD-10 Codes

Many years in the creation and tens of thousands more codes than ICD-9, yet the new ICD-10 list may be inadequate. An actor was hospitalized after his foot became caught an elevator raising the stage during a performance of the...

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State Medical Boards’ Questionable Behavior

A family physician was sanctioned by her state’s Board of Medicine for prescribing an antibiotic over the telephone in 2012. The incident occurred while the doctor was working for a telemedicine company. At that time,...

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The Doctor Will Saw You Now

One of the biggest medical stories of last week involved an unusual case from Scotland. During the course of a leg amputation at Ayr Hospital in Scotland, the surgeon discovered a metal plate in the patient’s leg. Lacking the...

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Do OR Checklists Improve Outcomes?

“Implementation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist was associated with robust reduction in morbidity and length of in-hospital stay and some reduction in mortality,” says the conclusion of a paper in the May 2015...

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