Patient Advocacy

I thought we covered this more than a year ago but a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine with an accompanying editorial and an article written by Troy Brown, RN on Medscape, there has been some additional dissection of...

With all due respect to Pink Floyd, it seems there is some growing concern the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative is running off course a bit with its recent selection of the "Blue Ribbon Panel" and who is at the table for high level...

Every once in awhile something hits my Facebook feed that makes me wonder how it got there and who means what by it. Beyond the family updates, births, deaths, marriages, divorces, Cubs and Blackhawk updates most recently, I saw one for “Find...

Lot going on in cancer care, data mining, cancer immunotherapy funding last week I thought worth sharing.  Clinical pathways, moonshot, data warehousing/mining, IT, immunotherapy to be key words in cancer care, treatment and research for...

Dr. David Novis, a pathologist and President of Novis Consulting, LLC based out of New Hampshire wrote an interesting Letter to the Editor recently in the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.  In it, he looks at  the role of quality...

Courtesy of Dr. Richard Friedberg, Issues of Interest Section on CAPConnect: CAP members may be aware of the American Osteopathic Association’s (AOA) recent “Doctors That DO” advertising campaign, which includes two print ads that many...