When I was a medical student, we had to practice drawing blood on our lab partners. I remember the first day we did it. One guy fainted as h... [...]
Have you ever wondered about the behavior of surgical residents on Facebook? I have. A study from the Journal of Surgical Education posted o... [...]
Airplanes are so permeated with bacteria that it is truly a wonder that anyone survives a flight. Ill bet you thought it was the air in the ... [...]
I’ve been blogging since July of 2010. Here is a list of my most viewed posts of 2015. Thank you for reading and commenting. “How much money... [...]
Heres why. A friend told me that a new attending on his staff was having some problems. Although the young surgeon was a graduate of five ye... [...]
A female high school student asks about pathology, surgery, and medicine in general. [Email edited for length.] See if you agree with my ans... [...]
I get it. Can we please stop comparing the number of Ebola victims in the United States to all sorts of irrelevant things? PS: Its not that ... [...]
In a post a few months ago, I wondered why Medicare could not control its costs using the investigative power of the federal government inst... [...]
A woman writes [some non-essential details have been changed to preserve anonymity. Permission to post this was obtained.]: I am a non-US ci... [...]
How are we doing with residency training and continuity of care? Not too well if you believe a recent paper called "Continuity of Care ... [...]
Quite different than what we are used to in the United States as a paper published online in the American Journal of Surgery explains. In th... [...]
A JAMA Viewpoint article suggests that doctors should be aware that patients may be surreptitiously recording their conversations. The autho... [...]
Heres an email from someone interested in rural surgery: I am a senior medical student planning on going in to general surgery and practici... [...]
On February 3, JAMA published a paper online about readmission rates after surgery. The focus of most tweets was on the most common cause fo... [...]
In September, Doximity, a closed online community of over 300,000 physicians, released its ratings of residency programs in nearly every spe... [...]
From the Associated Press: Airlines around the world on Thursday began requiring two crew members to always be present in the cockpit, after... [...]
