Updated Guidelines for NSTE-ACS
Recently, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) updated...
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Hospital Medicine
An Update for Preventing MRSA
In 2008, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and Infectious Diseases Society of...
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Is the AMA Really the Voice of Physicians in the US?
The American Medical Association is all over the media as representing the voice of doctors. Even...
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The War on Doctors & Destruction of Healthcare
Walking the hospital corridors, many of the comments I overhear patients and others speaking about...
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Assessing Aspirin Use for CVD Prevention
Aspirin is used as a primary strategy to help prevent a first occurrence of cardiovascular disease...
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Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs: Lessons for ED Personnel
Outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs) are an iconic element of the criminal landscape in the United...
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Decision Aids & Difficult Choices
With advance care planning, clinicians can help honor patient preferences and goals in cases of...
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Surgeons Who Can’t Perform Open Surgery
Now I’m really worried about surgical education. Here’s why: A friend told me that a...
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Just Culture? Just Kidding.
The big health system that owns the hospital where I do much of my elective scheduled surgery has...
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When HF Worsens in the Hospital
Acute heart failure (HF) leads to more than 1 million hospitalizations in the United States each...
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Hypertension: Examining Cost Effectiveness of Treatment
According to current estimates, 44% of the 64 million adults in the United States with...
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Hospital Medicine 2015
New research was presented at Hospital Medicine 2015, the annual meeting of the Society of...
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Managing Migraine in the ED
Migraine is one of the most common disorders for which patients seek medical treatment in the ED....
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An Update on Managing IBS & CIC
IBS and chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC) are among the most common functional...
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Sexual Risk Behavior & Viral Suppression in Patients With HIV
Research indicates that nearly 90% of new HIV infections in the United States in 2010 were...
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Alternative Medicine Docs Confused About Oxygen
An article called “Simple ‘4-7-8’ breathing trick can induce sleep in 60 seconds”...
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Examining the Timing of ED Return Visits
In 2012, CMS implemented reimbursement penalties for hospitals with excessive inpatient...
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POLST & Emergency Medicine: Considering the Issues
Emergency physicians frequently care for dying patients and are forced to make time-sensitive...
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