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Inspiring a new oncologists generation
Date: January 3rd, 2014
One of the things that I really enjoy being an academic oncologist is an opportunity of teaching and impacting knowledge on others.
Should OpenNotes be made a standard of care?
Date: January 2nd, 2014
The fundamental OpenNotes tenets aim at ensuring that patients are able to access their notes from their physicians within some few years to come.
The truth about vaccine safety
Date: January 1st, 2014
There is absolutely no doubt that Oprah received spectacular ratings thanks to her popularized Lance Armstrong interview.
A look at laxative free virtual colonoscopy
Date: December 31st, 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.
Advancement of medications
Date: December 30th, 2013
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
OpenNotes brought to Geisigner
Date: December 29th, 2013
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
Don’t let any broken hip to go unfixed
Date: December 28th, 2013
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
Policy experts should lead by storytelling
Date: December 26th, 2013
The biggest mistake a patient can ever make
Date: December 23rd, 2013
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.
The sad story of my mum
Date: December 21st, 2013
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