Patient Advocacy

Last Fall I wrote a couple of posts about the growing disenchantment with 'Pinkification' and 'Pinktober' referencing the all-out blitz during October to go "Pink" for breast bancer awareness and prevention.  In one of the pieces I mentioned...

Many of you have already been contacted about this in the past few months. Perhaps repeatedly. Through this site, emails, in-person and/or by phone.  And many of you have generously supported these rides and organization. Time is close for the...

DIAGNOSTIC QUALITY ASSURANCE® The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Assurance (AHRQ) has approved the Diagnostic Quality Assurance ® (DQA) listing as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) by the Secretary of the Department of Health...

When serum protein biomarker data were used independently, clinical sensitivity and specificity for detection of breast cancer were 74.7% and 77.0%, respectively. When tumor-associated autoantibody data were used independently,...

There is an interesting article in this month's AMA Journal of Ethics by Drs. Crane and Gardner on the use of pathology images in social media. The authors introduce the article in their abstract as "There is a rising interest in the use of...

We are all busy, and I’m not different. Between busy clinical schedules, travel for work and pleasure, the Spring and Summer are a blur. But there’s nothing like voices from your past to force you to take a pause. I’ve recently received...