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Slapping Docs' Hands for Not Washing Them
That's the recommendation from the master of medical checklists Peter Pronovost of Johns Hopkins University and Robert Wachter of University of California at San Francisco, says the WSJ Health Blog. Lack of accountability is the reason why a whole range of medical errors exist contend the pair, according to a... (read the rest)
Michael Jackson's "Unintended, but Foreseen" Death
On OUP's Medical Monday blog, Robert Veatch talks about the decision made by Michael Jackson's physician to offer him what was arguably a potentially lethal dose of the anesthetic, propofol, and the trade-off that he believes that Mr. Jackson and Dr. Murray made to give him some much needed rest.... (read the rest)
Chemo Teen and Mom on the Run--How It Could Have Been Prevented
By now, almost everyone in America has probably heard the story of Daniel Hauser and his fight to refuse chemotherapy for his Hodgkin's lymphoma. The most recent wrinkle is that when it appeared that Daniel would be forced to get chemo, he and his mother skipped town, apparently now on... (read the rest)
What Will Bioethics Be Like in 2029?
On the Journal of Medical Ethics blog, Soren Holm has said, "If you know what is going to happen in bioethics in the future here is the competition for you...." How is that for throwing down the gauntlet? Evidently the Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics, to celebrate its 20th anniversary,... (read the rest)
Can a Medical School Afford NOT to Have Medical Ethics?
Evidently, at least one major medical school things so. And to boot, their Chancellor, President and Board of Trustees appears to think that they can not only afford to live without a medical ethics department but to actively do away with their current one. The Health Science Center at the... (read the rest)
Blogher Asks "Why Do We Need Medical Ethics Anyway?"
I was drawn into a story of a patient undergoing a routine breast exam described on Blogher.com and the discomfort that occurred as the physician with less than bedside manner overzealously examined her breasts. However, what went from a story about a borderline unethical doctor changed became much more dull... (read the rest)
Scrotumgate: Live from the UK
Elaine Murphy, a Baroness and doctor from the House of Lords in Britain, and her husband, John Murphy, have admitted to submitting a fake medical journal article to the British Medical Journal in 1974, says Fox News. The two created a false medical condition, later to become known as "guitar... (read the rest)
Training Doctors to Teach Doctors to Care
A recent study published in Academic Medicine has found that a new method of training physicians how to teach the dimensions of care--effective communication, compassion and relationship building--results in physicians who love their profession and their patients, says Booster Shots, the LA Times Health Blog. The longitudinal study conducted at... (read the rest)
Let's Get Physical
I agree with The Wall Street Journal Health Blog and NEJM's Brian Rank, that executive physicals are, as they are currently practiced little more than a sham. To be more specific, as Rank argues, executive physicals are three things: inefficacious, too costly, and inequitable. More akin to going to a... (read the rest)
CNN: DA never called medical experts to testify in Katrina hospital deaths
In July, a grand jury decided not to indict one doctor and two nurses on second degree murder charges that they had taken actions to kill patients in their care at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina. CNN reported on Sunday that the five medical experts lined up... (read the rest)
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