Best of Medical Blogs-weekly review and blog carnival

The "Best of Medical Blogs-weekly review and blog carnival" is a weekly summary of the best medical Blog post. Feel free to send your suggestions to my email at clinicalcases@gmail.com. Best medical blog (BMB) is published every Tuesday, just like the old Grand Rounds.Cultivate followers on social media, if you want to communicate scienceFrom the blog science Soapbox http://goo.gl/cPQq1 and medical Museion http://goo.gl/QmEU7:Social media platforms...

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Best of Medical Blogs-weekly review and blog carnival

The "Best of Medical Blogs-weekly review and blog carnival" is a weekly summary of the best medical Blog post. Feel free to send your suggestions to my email at clinicalcases@gmail.com. Best medical blog (BMB) is published every Tuesday, just like the old Grand Rounds.Cultivate followers on social media, if you want to communicate scienceFrom the blog science Soapbox http://goo.gl/cPQq1 and medical Museion http://goo.gl/QmEU7:Social media platforms...

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Scanning the news about concerns over explosion in medical imaging scans

In case you missed them, many stories reported on a new analysis of the explosion in the use of CT, MRI and other advanced imaging methods.The Los Angeles Times: “Use of imaging tests soars, raising questions on radiation risk.”Researchers looked at “data from patients enrolled in six large health maintenance organizations,” and “found that doctors ordered CT scans at a rate of 149 tests per 1,000 patients in 2010, nearly triple the rate of 52 scans per 1,000 patients in 1996.” Meanwhile, “MRI use nearly quadrupled during the period, jumping from...

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Scanning the news about concerns over explosion in medical imaging scans

In case you missed them, many stories reported on a new analysis of the explosion in the use of CT, MRI and other advanced imaging methods.The Los Angeles Times: “Use of imaging tests soars, raising questions on radiation risk.”Researchers looked at “data from patients enrolled in six large health maintenance organizations,” and “found that doctors ordered CT scans at a rate of 149 tests per 1,000 patients in 2010, nearly triple the rate of 52 scans per 1,000 patients in 1996.” Meanwhile, “MRI use nearly quadrupled during the period, jumping from...

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Boston Globe opinion piece on decision aids for dying patients on end-of-life care options

Angelo Volandes, MD, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, wrote an opinion piece published in the Boston Globe today.  He tells the story of a patient dying of cancer, with whom he brought up the topic of end-of-life care options:“For the next hour I introduced a vocabulary as foreign to her as spondee and trochee were to me. Life-prolonging treatment and CPR, ventilators and intubation, DNR and DNI — terms that she would need to learn quickly. Unfortunately, I was trying to teach her a new lexicon in the midst of the haze of nausea...

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Boston Globe opinion piece on decision aids for dying patients on end-of-life care options

Angelo Volandes, MD, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, wrote an opinion piece published in the Boston Globe today.  He tells the story of a patient dying of cancer, with whom he brought up the topic of end-of-life care options:“For the next hour I introduced a vocabulary as foreign to her as spondee and trochee were to me. Life-prolonging treatment and CPR, ventilators and intubation, DNR and DNI — terms that she would need to learn quickly. Unfortunately, I was trying to teach her a new lexicon in the midst of the haze of nausea...

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When Practitioners Harm More Than Heal

“Missing The Target: When Practitioners Harm More Than Heal” is the title of a two-day conference in Washington this week (June 14-15) hosted by PharmedOut.org at Georgetown.  This is their third annual conference – this one focusing on how patient harms may result from industry promotions.The full agenda and abstracts are now available online.Some of the speakers:Rita Redberg, M.D., M.Sc., Archives of Internal Medicine Editor-in-Chief; professor...

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When Practitioners Harm More Than Heal

“Missing The Target: When Practitioners Harm More Than Heal” is the title of a two-day conference in Washington this week (June 14-15) hosted by PharmedOut.org at Georgetown.  This is their third annual conference – this one focusing on how patient harms may result from industry promotions.The full agenda and abstracts are now available online.Some of the speakers:Rita Redberg, M.D., M.Sc., Archives of Internal Medicine Editor-in-Chief; professor...

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Surgeon folds and throws the paper airplane using da Vinci Robot (video)

From Swedish Hospital YouTube channel: Dr. James Porter, Medical Director of robotic surgery at Swedish folds a paper airplane with the da Vinci robot to demonstrate how this device gives surgeons greater surgical precision and dexterity over existing approaches.With over 600,000 views, this video brings no doubt good advertisement to the hospital.However, the robot costs on average $ 1.30 million, in addition to several hundred thousand dollars in annual maintenance fees. Surgical procedures performed with the robot takes more than traditional...

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Surgeon folds and throws the paper airplane using da Vinci Robot (video)

From Swedish Hospital YouTube channel: Dr. James Porter, Medical Director of robotic surgery at Swedish folds a paper airplane with the da Vinci robot to demonstrate how this device gives surgeons greater surgical precision and dexterity over existing approaches.With over 600,000 views, this video brings no doubt good advertisement to the hospital.However, the robot costs on average $ 1.30 million, in addition to several hundred thousand dollars in annual maintenance fees. Surgical procedures performed with the robot takes more than traditional...

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Medical Arms Race tale

Kudos to Gregory Warner of Marketplace and colleagues for creating this video.  I thought I’d posted this months ago, but apparently forgot.  Never too late.View the original article h...

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Medical Arms Race tale

Kudos to Gregory Warner of Marketplace and colleagues for creating this video.  I thought I’d posted this months ago, but apparently forgot.  Never too late.View the original article h...

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Best of Medical Blog - recensione settimanale e blog carnevale

The "Best of Medical Blogs-weekly review and blog carnival" is a weekly summary of the best medical Blog post. Feel free to send your suggestions to my email at clinicalcases@gmail.com. Best medical blog (BMB) is published every Tuesday, just like the old Grand Rounds.Cultivate followers on social media, if you want to communicate scienceFrom the blog science Soapbox http://goo.gl/cPQq1 and medical Museion http://goo.gl/QmEU7:Social media platforms...

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Best of Medical Blog - recensione settimanale e blog carnevale

The "Best of Medical Blogs-weekly review and blog carnival" is a weekly summary of the best medical Blog post. Feel free to send your suggestions to my email at clinicalcases@gmail.com. Best medical blog (BMB) is published every Tuesday, just like the old Grand Rounds.Cultivate followers on social media, if you want to communicate scienceFrom the blog science Soapbox http://goo.gl/cPQq1 and medical Museion http://goo.gl/QmEU7:Social media platforms...

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