I read an excellent article by Abraham Verghese in The Atlantic today. It made me think two things: first, I really love The Atlantic. Second, how much time are attending physicians spending on computers? He talks throughout the piece about how the problem with electronic medical records is that now he spends [...]

A doctor stops a fellow physician in the hallway. “I have a patient with MRSA, influenza, C. diff and TB.”
“Geez, that’s horrible. What do you do for a patient like that?”
“I have him on a special diet of pancakes and flounder.”
“Pancakes and flounder! My god, that’s revolutionary! Does it work?”
“I don’t know. It’s the only [...]

In the early days of this century, as new antihypertensive medications were seeking their niche, the popular comparator drug was atenolol. The LIFE, ASCOT, and INVEST trials all used atenolol to demonstrate the “power” of their drug. Slowly, however, evidence emerged that atenolol was less effective than alternative antihypertensives. The Cochrane database [...]

Welcome to yet another medical blog!  The purpose of this blog is essentially selfish.  I wanted to record in a journal those interesting facts one learns nearly everyday in medicine, as well as interesting cases I come along.  I actually looked for a good electronic journal, with tags &c.  I never found the perfect solution, [...]