Current Affairs
The Washington Post (7/28, Caputo) reports that as Americans increasingly turn to the Internet for healthcare information, "many end up at Wikipedia. 'More and more people are using the Web to get their health information to augment...
With the renewed discussions and proposed legislation about "healthcare reform" the topics of reimbursement, cost, tort reform (not really), insurance and physician income are all issues. The healthcare debate rages on. Most...
Perhaps another case making the case for need for second opinions in pathology either internal or external prior to major surgical procedures or medical therapy. Have seen this story on a number of sites and with 2.0 technologies others...
My best friend is a doctor and she hates the Internet, or to be more accurate, she hates the fact that people believe everything they read on it. She has patients who contradict her opinion and diagnosis and question her methods of treatment....
In the past I have blogged about virtual colonoscopy and concern over how in the future this may diminish the number of colon biopsies done to be reviewed. Others have argued this might actually increase the number of colonoscopies...
I do not know what to make of all the recent news and stories about the Swine/North American/Newly mutated flu virus and how virulent it actually is. Nonetheless, The 1x Objective has some nice videos and other links on the...
