Complications & Collateral Damage
“Collateral damage: the effect of patient complications on the surgeon’s psyche”...
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Skeptical Scalpel
Words Mean What I Say They Mean
Apparently a few years ago someone decreed that “non-compliant” was no longer a politically correct term to describe patients who did not take their medicines or follow instructions. The newspeak to use is now “non-adherent.”...
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Overuse of Proton Pump Inhibitors is Expensive & Dangerous
Let’s talk about proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). These drugs, successors to the innovative H2...
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An Error Occurred. Suspend All Surgery in the U.S.?
Here is an extreme “system error” type of response to an event that seems to have been a human...
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68% of Physicians Unsatisfied with Affordable Care Act
A recent survey from staffing company Jackson Healthcare found that 68% of physicians gave the...
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