South Korean Drug Execs Indicted For Kickbacks
Several current and former execs at Dong-A Pharmaceutical, which is the largest drugmaker in South Korea, were indicted yesterday for providing roughly $500,000 in kickbacks to approximately 1,400 hospitals and clinic. Also arrested and indicted were the heads of for four agency firms for their role in offering the kickbacks, The Korea Times reports.
This is the first case of its kind involving such a huge sum of money for an illegal transaction between a drugmaker and hospitals since 2010, when South Korea passed a law to punish kickback activity, the paper notes. A year later, an investigative team was assembled from dif...
Source: Pharmalot - January 11, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Dong-A Pharmaceutical GlaxoSmithKline Janssen JJ Johnson & Johnson Kickbacks Sanofi Source Type: blogs
Right Bundle Branch Block with New Anterior ST elevation
An elderly female with no known history of CAD presented to the ED as a walk-in with vomiting and upper abdominal discomfort. The following ECG was recorded at t = 0:There is sinus rhythm with Right Bundle Branch Block and ST elevation in leads V1 and V2, suspicious for STEMI. The computerized QRS duration is 138 ms. A previous ECG was found:There is an RSR' with right ventricular conduction delay and downsloping ST depression in V1 that is reminiscent of Brugada pattern. The computerized QRS duration is 84 ms. The ST elevation is confirmed to be new.The cath lab was activated but the interven...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 4, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
The WhiteCoat Year in Review
I was going to post this yesterday but I got all fired up over the whole Press Ganey thing. Sorry about that.
What has happened in the past year?
My humble little blog has quite a few visitors over the past year. Depending on the source, last year I had between 700,000 and 780,000 unique visits and nearly 1.4 million page views. I just shake my head and say “dang.” That’s a lot of eyeballs. Hopefully that means we’ve been doing something right.
The most popular posts over the past year paralleled the top search terms leading people to this blog.
Ten times as many people linked directly to the home p...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - January 3, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Random Thoughts Source Type: blogs
New Academic Year Thoughts
The academic year is well underway and thoughts now turn to the candidates that will be filing applications for graduate nurse anesthetists programs. For those that are thinking about or are applying this year here are a few tips from someone fresh in the mix.
Dear David,
Words cannot express the gratitude that I have for the invaluable shadow experience you presented me and all the words of encouragement you provided me. Forgive my redundancy, but thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you and thank you some more. My journey to become a CRNA started when I was just in my third semester of nursing school. During my...
Source: Nurse Anesthetist - December 29, 2012 Category: Nurses Authors: David Tags: General Student Life Source Type: blogs
the early results of Obamacare
I’ve been trying to avoid talking about health-care reform (or deform, if you want to be accurate) on here, because it makes me so angry that I’m virtually speechless. I’ve also stopped talking about politics with my liberal friends at work. I used to enjoy a friendly debate, but there’s nothing fun about the looming disaster.
I can’t not talk about this any more. I just opened a mass email to all the physicians at my hospital, informing us that, in addition to compazine (a very basic anti-nausea medicine; cheaper and more effective than zofran, and less sedating than phenergan; my go-to drug ...
Source: Cut On The Dotted Line - December 23, 2009 Category: Surgery Authors: Dr. Alice Tags: politics Source Type: blogs
