Is artificial intelligence the answer to our healthcare problems?
An article in last week’s Newsweek magazine says it is. “Artificial intelligence will...
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Skeptical Scalpel
Nonadherence to medications: Who’s to blame?
No foundations or patient advocate groups are promoting awareness of nonadherence. There are no...
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Transgastric appendectomy: The answer to a question no one is asking
No one really wants to know if taking out an inflamed appendix using an endoscope passed...
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Will robots ever be able to perform surgery independently?
Will robots ever be able to perform surgery independently? And if they can, should they? In my...
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Some autonomous robots are not ready for prime time
A Twitter friend posted this on a blustery Wisconsin morning: His car wasn’t being driven by...
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How much would you pay for a nap?
Los Cruces High School in New Mexico decided to address the growing problem of sleepy students by...
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Stronger Malpractice Laws Don’t Reduce Complications
A study of over 890,000 Medicare beneficiaries shows that states with malpractice environments...
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Who Has Grit? Cutting Resident Attrition Rates
What is grit? In an article in The Guardian, Angela Duckworth, a psychologist often called the...
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Should patients bail out when their doctor is burned out?
Google “physician burnout epidemic,” and you will find quite a few articles and blog...
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Wrong Body Cremated: ID’ing Patients By More Than a Name
The wrong body was cremated by the county coroner’s office in Los Angeles. Jorge Hernandez...
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A tube misconnection and a death: a medical whodunit
Here’s what we know. In September 2016, a 72-year-old former member of the Australian...
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Unmatched Graduate: “Med Schools to Blame”
The following was submitted as a series of comments on my Physician’s Weekly post about Missouri’s...
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Parking lot needlestick yields $4.6 million payout
A jury awarded a woman $4,618,500 for a needlestick injury she sustained in the parking lot of...
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Is burnout inevitable during medical training?
An emergency medicine resident blogging on KevinMD, thinks so. Here’s why. He started with the...
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Why can’t more doctors apologize for mistakes?
“The unintended consequences of these seemingly well-intentioned laws are doctors who can’t...
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Misinterpretation of Medical Error Deaths from BMJ Paper Continues
About 6 weeks ago, I wrote a post called “Overestimating the effect of medical errors can be...
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Gas Mix-Up Causes Newborn Death
In mid-July, a baby born by cesarean section died about one hour later due to the administration...
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Shocker: Hospitalists’ “Unprofessional” Behavior Is Normal
By their own admission, medical hospitalists are guilty of many types of unprofessional behavior,...
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Can you trust online physician ratings?
Many people believe you can. But here’s what a recent article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR)...
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Should Doctors and Nurses Wear Scrubs in Public?
Being “old school,” I don’t like to see people wearing scrubs outside of the hospital. But there...
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