Dealing With the Aging Surgeon
According to published research and anecdotal evidence, the aging surgeon remains a problem...
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Articles
Hypertension Trends in the U.S.
Healthy People 2020 is a national initiative that was launched in 2010 and outlines 10-year goals...
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Analyzing the Appropriate Use of Statins
Recently, the recently American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association...
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Illustrating the Importance of Cholesterol
The Foundation of the National Lipid Association, the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses...
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Ethical Pain Management in the ED
According to published reports, up to 75% of ED patients present with pain-related complaints, and...
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Keeping Claims from Becoming Denials in ICD-10
Have you ever found a recipe in a magazine that you wanted to try? You did your best to follow the...
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How Online Medical Crowdsourcing Helped Save a Life
There is nothing more horrifying in the world than a parent watching their child get sick and die....
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Comparing Where TAVR is Performed
Transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) procedures were initially developed to be a fully...
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Examining the Use of Minimally Invasive Surgery
According to published research, surgical complications are a substantial burden in the United...
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Working on the Night Shift in Emergency Medicine
Throughout the United States, EDs often require physicians to work a share of night shifts along...
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Preoperative Frailty Screening & Palliative Care
Frail surgery patients are at greater risk of death and poor outcomes after their procedure than...
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Examining Vaccination Rates in Women
Research has repeatedly shown that adults in the United States are under-immunized against a...
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Too Old to Operate?
He was 94 years old and was in my office because his gallstones were becoming a problem. They had...
Read MoreWhere Big Data Does Not Exist
The crush to achieve big data goals drives the American healthcare system. Many experts, I among them, feel that the system lost its way and forgot about the people we treat. The company and government heads clamor to devise the...
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After Poor Outcomes, Neurosurgeon Arrested for Assault
It’s time to catch up with America’s most notorious neurosurgeon, Dr. Christopher...
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Opioid Use in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
The management of chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP)—defined as pain lasting beyond 3 months—has...
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Sexual Risk & HIV Viral Suppression
Research indicates that nearly 90% of new HIV infections in the United States in 2010 were...
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Conference Highlights: NLA 2015
New research was presented at NLA 2015, the National Lipid Association’s annual scientific...
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