A new study suggests that eating one serving (100 grams) of red meat a day does not increase the risk of heart disease. Conversely, eating as little as 50 grams of processed meat a day, equivalent to one hot dog, is associated with a 42% increase in the risk of heart disease and a 19% [...]
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After nearly loosing his twins to an overdose of the blood thinner heparin given at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 2007, actor Dennis Quaid has been heavily involved in raising awareness about medical errors in collaboration with TMIT and the National Quality Forum. Medical errors have historically been dealt with through lawsuits and [...]
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Today, the WSJ cites the results of a study by the California HealthCare Foundation on electronic medical records stating that 15% of the 1,849 adults surveyed reported concealing information from a physician if “the doctor had an electronic medical record system” that could share information with other groups. Another 33% would “consider hiding information.” Calling [...]
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There are a lot of misconceptions about cancer. Here are some common myths via Cancer.net , the patient website of the American Society of Clinical Oncology: The number of people diagnosed with and dying from cancer is increasing. Actually, the number of new diagnoses of all cancers combined decreased steadily between 1999 and 2006, and the number of [...]
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In the recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Harvard oncologist Jerome Groopman and his colleague Pamela Hartzband talk about how the Internet is providing broader access to information, including the kind that has traditionally been available only to physicians. In doing so, the Internet may be changing the patient-doctor relationship: As physicians, [...]
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Via GOOD Blog and John Goodman
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Google search auto-complete is a very useful feature where after typing a few words into the search bar a menu of suggestions based on other users’ queries appears. It has become an interesting way of seeing trends about search topics. A simple visualization tool called Web Seer can compare Google auto-complete suggestions for two search [...]
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The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published a case about a 66 year-old man with heart disease and an enlarging abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Once these aneurysms grow beyond a certain size, they may rupture and place one at the risk of bleeding to death. What I found unique about this case [...]
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Last year I was introduced to Nancy Pando, the producer of a new documentary that is taking a bold look at the frustrations of practicing physicians in the country: Being a physician today carries a complexity and responsibility, known only to those whom are expected to tend to the ills of society. But when doctors [...]
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