July 15, 2019
(Scientific American) – It’s four o’clock on a roasting Wednesday last July. I am a resident physician at Yale University, and I am sitting beside my wife, Kristin Budde, who just became an attending physician, also at Yale. We are … Read More
July 11, 2019
(Reuters) – Physicians who trained in U.S. hospitals under recent reforms that capped their work hours appear to provide care that’s similar in cost and quality to doctors who trained before workday reforms took effect, a new study suggests. Reforms … Read More
June 27, 2019
(Vice) – The practice of using non-consenting, unconscious patients as pelvic-exam training tools for medical students has continued to an unknown degree across the country since Silver-Isenstadt, now a pediatrician in Baltimore, first learned about it. It happens not only … Read More
June 17, 2019
JAMA (vol. 321, no. 2, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Rethinking How Antibiotics Are Prescribed: Incorporating the 4 Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making Into Clinical Practice” by Pranita D. Tamma, Melissa A. Miller, and Sara E. … Read More
March 25, 2019
JAMA (vol. 320, no. 19, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Physical Activity Guidelines for Health and Prosperity in the United States” by Brett P. Giroir and Don Wright “The New Age of Patient Autonomy: Implications for … Read More
January 18, 2019
Nursing Ethics (vol. 25, no. 6, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Ethical Competence: An Integrative Review” by Kathleen Lechasseur, Chantal Caux, Stéphanie Dollé, and Alain Legault “Ethical Climate and Missed Nursing Care in Cancer Care units” … Read More
December 14, 2018
(BBC) – At least nine Japanese medical schools manipulated admissions, in part to exclude female students, a government investigation has found. The inquiry was launched in August, after the prestigious Tokyo Medical University (TMU) was found to have tampered with … Read More
October 30, 2018
(BBC) – A professor of surgery says students have spent so much time in front of screens and so little time using their hands that they have lost the dexterity for stitching or sewing up patients. Roger Kneebone, professor of … Read More
October 11, 2018
(Reuters) – An initiative to replace the use of live animals with a human simulator for trauma surgery practice got training programs in more than 20 countries to make the switch, saving them money in the process, researchers say. The … Read More
August 17, 2018
(The Atlantic) – Medical school costs a lot of money that a lot of people don’t have. That often means students do a bit of cost-benefit analysis: Is it worth it to take on hundreds of thousands of dollars of … Read More
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