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The White Coat Wall of Silence
Submitted by MKirschMD on Sun, 2010-09-12 08:47You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Is There Really a 'White Coat Wall of Silence'?
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Law School Declare Their Students are Smarter!
Submitted by MKirschMD on Sun, 2010-06-27 17:44You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Law schools recently declared that their students are smarter. Could this work for you? I hope not.
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I think cancer patients are brave
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2010-03-18 21:12You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
E
ven if you don't like the "battle" analogy for cancer ("War on cancer," "Lost his battle with cancer,") I think we would all have to agree it takes a certain amount of courage, or bravery, or whatever you want to call merely showing up to take treatment.
One of the best parts of oncology is that I get to take inspiration from people finding the courage to carry on in the face of difficult conditions.
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Georgia Supreme Court and Tort Reform
Submitted by MKirschMD on Thu, 2010-03-18 11:07You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Did the Georgia Supreme Court make the right call on tort reform? You be the judge!
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Is Health Care a Right?
Submitted by MKirschMD on Sun, 2010-03-07 15:18You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Is health care a right? Would any personal responsibility be required? Would folks who drink and drive, race motorcycles, skydive or skip their high blood pressure medicines enjoy the same right to health care as the rest of us? Would this be fair?
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Podcast: Medical news headlines don't always capture the facts
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2010-03-06 23:40You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
The headlines don't bear out the content in two news items from late this week.
The first item is that periodontal disease treatment reverses the risk of premature birth. There was no evidence, in the extremely limited amount of information presented in the press release, that investigators were blinded to whether the patients had a preterm delivery. The decision of whether their periodontal disease treatment was successful was performed "post-hoc" so one can't rule out a bias in assessing a successful outcome. We just don't know.
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Diabetes diagnostic testing, hemoglobin, and the WHO
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2010-03-04 23:57You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Today's second installment is about the WHO definition of diabetes, and whether today's New England Journal of Medicine paper is enough to change it.
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FDA urges caution on topical Voltaren
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2010-03-04 11:59You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Even though there is less absorption of the drug into the circulation, even topical diclofenac (Voltaren gel) has the potential to cause liver damage.
This was the subject of a "Dear Doctor" letter from the FDA in December 2009, and it was a topic highlighted by this month's Worst Pills.org.
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Osteoporosis treatments to prevent breast cancer
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2010-03-03 23:29You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Yesterday's news that osteoporosis drugs known as bisphosphonates may help prevent breast cancer was exciting.
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Is Defensive Medicine All Hype?
Submitted by MKirschMD on Sun, 2010-02-28 18:01You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Is defensive medicine as prevalent as physicians claim? How many health care dollars does defensive medicine cost? Why should patients care about this issue? Much more on tort reform at www.MDWhistleblower.blogspot.com
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