General Healthcare News

Medscape (subscription required) had an article last week called "GAO Suspects Monetary Motive in Physician In-House Pathology". Whoo. That's good. I thought the GAO may have been looking into this with a multi-part report for reasons other...

In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) there is a classic scene addressing brain hematomas and the differences between 2oth century medicine: "A simple evacuation of the expanding epidural hematoma will relieve the pressure!" and  23rd...

Courtesy of cancernetwork.com By Anna Azvolinsky, PhD, Freelance Science Writer and Cancer Network Contributor. Follow Her on Twitter | August 8, 2013 A new endoscopy technology called photometric stereo endoscopy (PSE), which can...

Thanks to a colleague for alerting me to a recent story from the Boston NPR website written by a practicing pathologist on a recent experience with a patient who requested a one-on-one consultation with him to review her slides and...

From DarkDaily.com This assumes, I think, that the physician offices actually paid for the initial hardware and software rather than a subsidy/donation/provided by a healthcare system or laboratory as many healthcare systems and laboratories...

Back in 2009 I wrote a post entitled "Departments of Diagnostic Medicine?" after hearing folks such as Bruce Friedman talk and write about why pathology and radiology should/will merge. My post on the matter years later took questioned the...