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Inspiring a new oncologists generation

Jan
03

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?

Jan
02

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

Jan
01

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

Dec
31

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

Dec
30

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

Dec
29

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

Dec
28

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

Dec
26

Date: December 26th, 2013

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

Dec
23

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

Dec
21

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