No definite association between testosterone replacement and VTE
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - May 9, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: cardiovascular pharmacology pulmonary Source Type: blogs

Cardiocerebral syndrome
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - May 7, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: cardiovascular neurology Source Type: blogs

Wireless LV endocardial pacing takes CRT to the next level
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - May 6, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: cardiovascular Source Type: blogs

AGS Urges Senate to Reject Amended American Health Care Act
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) released a new statement against the new Republican sponsored healthcare legislation.  Part of the statement is reproduced here: The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) remains opposed to the amended American Health Care Act (AHCA) that today passed the U.S. House of Representatives despite serious concerns from geriatrics experts and a host (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - May 5, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: An Aging World Featured Geriatric Medicine geriatrics Healthcare Quality Improving Medical Care insurance Source Type: blogs

Yes Virginia, LDL really does matter
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - May 5, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: cardiovascular endocrinology Source Type: blogs

Wingman
There is talk of quality in health care. There is talk of safety. Millions upon millions of dollars are spent on "quality and safety" in health care each year. After all, without "quality" and "safety," how can you have "value?" Business people now call quality and safety "MIPS," "MOC," "MACRA," or "measures." To me, these are not quality, but rather very flawed attempts to define it. Acronyms (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - May 5, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: DrWes Source Type: blogs

“Early” invasive versus selectively invasive strategy for non ST segment ACS
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - May 4, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: cardiovascular Source Type: blogs

NEJM review of Cushing ’s syndrome
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - May 3, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: endocrinology Source Type: blogs

What JAMA's Editors Failed to Disclose
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."- from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare An entire journal dedicated to a discussion of conflicts of interest was published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). There is remarkable irony when the executive editor and editor in chief of JAMA fail to disclose JAMA's ownership by the American Medical Assocat ion (AMA), a 501(c (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - May 3, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: DrWes Source Type: blogs

Periprocedural management of anticoagulation in non-valvular a fib: what the hospitalist needs to know
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - May 2, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: cardiovascular hospital medicine Source Type: blogs

Carcinoids and other neuroendocrine tumors
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - May 1, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: oncology Source Type: blogs

Giant cell myocarditis review
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - April 30, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: cardiovascular Source Type: blogs

The Coombs test: some things you need to know
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - April 29, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: allergy and immunology hematology Source Type: blogs

Texas: The Latest Front of the Ugly Civil War in American Medicine
The Alamo, 1894 (from Wikipedia) The ugly civil war in American medicine continues, this time in Texas. This civil war is not a war between the left-right politics of healthcare, as many would hope it be depicted. Rather, it is a war between an emerging left-right alliance that's building to to pple health care's increasingly corporate state. On one side of the civil war is the staid old (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - April 29, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: DrWes Source Type: blogs

Review of carcinoid heart disease
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - April 28, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: blogs