Archive for December, 2013

Research radiologists at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital evaluated the details and accuracy of colon imaging, i.e. colonography or virtual colonoscopy with no laxatives during preparation and having it compared with the traditional colonoscopy.

I came to learn of a very disturbing decision made by Court of Appeals on an issue to do with drug marketing. Two judges gave an insane ruling determining that drug representatives who promote uses of a drug ‘off label’ are exercising their freedom of speech

Recently, more than 520 of our physicians starting sharing their notes on office visit with patients. All general pediatricians and primary care doctors and other few doctors within dermatology, pediatric subspecialties, pulmonology

The story of a 94 year old woman with Alzheimer’s

At her old age of 94 years, she was suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s. She was thinking that it was in 1954 and she asked me if I wanted some tea. Well, that’s not really a bad memory considering that she was lying in the hospital bed

Leaders of public health should always be ready to tell people things which they don’t want to hear and storytelling is an effective strategy to pass the message across.Certain things that should be brought to the attention of people whether they want to hear are like…

The biggest mistake a patient can ever make isn’t really what you are thinking. This is because it is not turning down treatments or tests recommended by their doctors.

My mum was kind, giving, and funny and was willing to go out of her ways to help people who needed her in one way or the other. She was a single parent, having been divorced by a drug addict and

As a practicing medical doctor, there are of course some few things you regret regarding your specialty selection or medical training. One thing that I really regret is failing to take advantage of masters degree program in Health

This year, the passed health care reform legislation majorly dealt on reimbursements made for such discussions and was mischaracterized widely as a way of establishing the so called ‘death panels’.

Recently, Britain’s General Medical Council released a new set of guidelines regarding medicine and social media. Generally, for doctors in United Kingdom, GMC really doesn’t believe that anyone identified as a physician should tweet/ post/ blog anonymously on the Internet. The council says that if a doctor identifies his or herself publicly through the social media, he or she should also make his name available. The public is highly likely to trust any online material that seems to be written by someone who represents him/ herself as a doctor. Such material is regarded to widely represent the views of this profession.