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The Trouble With Evidence-Based Medicine, the 'Brand'

Evidence in medicine is a good thing, but there are things to dislike about EBM

AMA Wants 2-Years of Grace for ICD-10 Errors

With time running out, AMA acts to protect physician payment

Pricey Drugs Prompt AMA to Ask FDA and FTC for Help

This time it's generics not brands

ICD-10: AMA Considers Grace Period to 'Save Docs'

No easy choices for AMA as it mulls next steps

ND vs MD -- Battle Lines Drawn in California

The state legislature is poised to open the medicine cabinet to naturopathic physicians

Op-Ed: How to Rein In Out-of-Control Healthcare Costs

We all know the medical bill horror stories, but now we have to act on them.

Docs Take ABIM to Task at Townhall

Internal medicine leaders get an earful on maintenance of certification.

Slippery Slope: $$ in, Diet Drugs Out, How Five Drugs Came to Market

Makers of diet drugs spent more than $60 million on payments to doctors, organized medicine, and lobbyists to get their drugs approved.

Dorry Segev, Extreme Renaissance Man

"Every day, I try to take on something Im not good at," says renowned transplant surgeon.

Physician/Writer: Dual and Dueling Responsibilities

The ethics of doctors writing about patients.

Excerpt From 'The Digital Doctor'

An insider's view of the digitization of healthcare delivery.

Doctors, Stop Sticking Your Patients So Often

UCSF's Think Twice, Stick Once campaign aims to curb unnecessary venipunctures.

Excerpt From 'The Secret Language of Doctors'

ED doc Brian Goldman investigates slang to "crack code of hospital culture."

I, Intern: A Critical Problem in the ICU

One intern wants to close the gap between evidence and practice.

Sinking Pediatric Practice Afloat After 麻豆传媒 Profile

Sometimes an article is worth $97,000 (in back pay).

Male Med Students: More Resolute, More Fallible

Gender differences seen in trainees' confidence, knowledge.

The NNT: An Overhyped and Confusing Statistic

Some pitfalls of summing up evidence with Numbers Needed to Treat.

Predicting Death in Advanced Cancer

Study offers clues to guide clinicians, families about end of life.

Dr. Maiden Name Will See You Now

Medical students give their last names a lot of thought.

Friday Feedback: When Grief Turns Violent

How should clinicians know and react when family members blame them for adverse outcomes?

5 Steps in Talking With Patients About Alternative Medicine

Ask, explain, respect, collaborate, compromise.

CardioBuzz: Why Patients Don鈥檛 Take Heart Meds

Faced with patients' instinctive aversion to pills, even after MI, what's a cardiologist to do?

Patients Should Share Accountability for Own Health

A new report recommends doctors not be penalized for poor outcomes if patients fail to follow recommended protocols

The Happy PCP: $400K/Yr and Home in Time for Dinner

Primary care doc earns a specialist's income without working overtime.

Excerpt From 'Being Mortal ... '

Ivan Ilyich isn't as foreign to today's medicine as we imagine.

Portenoy Opioid Talk Sparks Controversy

Opioid advocate Russell Portenoy's invitation to an upcoming NIH workshop is under fire.

MOC Watch: Debunking ABIM Pass Rate Myths

In this guest post, the American Board of Internal Medicine explains what determines pass rates for the Maintenance of Certification exam.

Doctor's Memoir Exposes Dark Side of Medicine

Sandeep Jauhar puts his life on stark display to illustrate harmful financial intrusions into medicine in his newest book.

CardioBuzz: Toward the $500 an Hour Physician

In this guest blog, Mark Jay Zucker, MD, JD, an attorney and transplant cardiologist at Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School in Newark, explains why he thinks it's time to talk money.

Friday Feedback: Zero-Tolerance Employment Smoking Bans?

Should hospitals, schools, and companies refuse to hire smokers for teachers and healthcare providers?

AMA Highlights: VA, Cheerleaders, and Guns

CHICAGO -- Wrapping up a full agenda, the AMA agrees cheerleading is a sport, doctors outside the VA need to pitch in to help care for veterans, and e-cigarettes need to be regulated.

AMA Agrees to Recharge Advocacy

CHICAGO -- The AMA will bolster their political advocacy efforts, recognize presurgical transgender birth certificates, and support insurance to cover young pregnant women and newborns, their House of Delegates voted here.

AMA Mulls Gun Violence CME

CHICAGO -- As the AMA's House of Delegates was meeting in a downtown hotel here, 29 local residents were shot and four killed within a 10-mile radius.

Give Me That Old Time AMA

After an absence of a few years, I find myself back in Chicago for the AMA's annual meeting and discover that not much has changed.

Lethal Injections, MOC, and E-Cigs on AMA Agenda

The American Medical Association is being asked to strengthen its ethical stance on physician participation in execution by extending its ban on doctors participating to include all health professionals.

CCSVI Practices Suboptimal but Patients Don't Mind

DALLAS -- Canadian multiple sclerosis patients who left the country to undergo the controversial procedure called chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) often received poor pre- and postoperative care, but most were still relatively satisfied overall, a researcher reported here.

Real-Time Monitoring Cuts Cardiac Cath Radiation

LAS VEGAS -- A radiation detector that emits audible beeps might help interventional cardiologists and others in the cardiac catheterization laboratory reduce their exposure, researchers found.

Edible Dynamite, Cockney Rhyming Medical Slang: That's Improbable!

A weekly report from our friends at Improbable Research.

'This Page Left Intentionally Blank'

Blank pages in correspondence from insurance companies are just an emblem of the endless waste and inefficiencies built into our healthcare system, says internist Fred Pelzman.

War Wounds: Hearing Loss Tracks Gulf War Vets

Battlefield wounds are often both life-threatening and life-changing, but when hearing is the casualty, the wound is too often undiagnosed or untreated, but a new initiative is underway to change tackle the silent wounds of war.

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