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White Coat's Call Room I admire this lady’s chutzpah.
If Virginia wants to make an unnecessary ultrasound necessary before a woman can have an abortion, Virginia Senator Janet Howell wants to make unnecessary rectal exams and stress tests a prerequisite before men can rece... Read moreWhite Coat's Call Room I finally took the time to read some other blogs today. One of the issues that I found disturbing was the case of Amanda Trujillo.
There are a lot of bits and pieces out there about what actually happened in this case. This blog post was reportedly an ... Read moreWhite Coat's Call Room See more news stories at this week's Satellite Edition over at ER Stories.net.
Pfizer may be in legal trouble after some lots of its oral contraceptives had the wrong medications. Now women who took the mislabeled medications have an increased chance o... Read moreUltrasound
Current Features An entitlement culture is one which says, “you owe me” because of who I am or what status group I belong to. While some have argued that such a mentality has been on display in the Occupy Wall Street movement – young people believing that they are “owed” a job because a small percentage of the population earns a lot of money – they are certainly not alone. Read moreWhite Coat's Call Room See more medical news from around the web at the Satellite Edition of this week's update on ER Stories.net
Meth heads do the “shake and bake” … on their face. New process for making methamphetamines in a 2 liter soda bottle often backfires, causi... Read moreWhite Coat's Call Room Haven't had an Open Mic in a couple of months.
Leave questions, opinions, and any other medically-related comments below and I will try to get to them Monday night.
Remember, no personal attacks.... Read moreWhite Coat's Call Room I made the statement that "I'm glad I'm a doctor" in one of my posts, but when I went back to link to the story behind the statement, I couldn't find it anywhere. So I pulled up the story from the archives and have posted it below. Still holds true today.... Read moreCurrent CME
Current Features Why should we care about benchmarks? They are a way to be proactive in evaluating and improving your practice before you get criticized, fired, or have your compensation reduced. Read moreCurrent Features Rolling in like a Trojan horse, CMS is proclaiming that its new ramped up benchmarking efforts are primarily motivated by efforts to improve quality. In reality, they are really focused on cost-reduction. Read moreOh Henry A new physician-written book sheds much-needed common sense on end-of-life care in the ED. “The Spirit that is in all beings is immortal in them all: for the death of what cannot die, cease thou to sorrow.” Read more |
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“There is no such thing as a ‘black cloud’,” your colleague jokingly
retorts. “We all get the same chances to make the diagnosis and to do
what’s right.” You give him your best pseudo-evil-eye as you continue to
recount the number of unfortunate cases you’ve seen with the residents
this evening already. 
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is an inherited disorder that
affects nearly 100,000 Americans. Since its discovery 101 years ago, SCD
has fallen largely under the academic jurisdiction of hematology.
Today, a small group of clinicians/researchers/scientists (mostly
hematologists) works to add to the body of sickle cell literatureRecently on Twitter:
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Raul Ruiz: Harvard Scholar and emergency physician vies for political office in Southern California http://t.co/5eDo11oC
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