I imagine every physician anesthesiologist has experienced drug or equipment shortages in the last year. How frustrating that even in the world’s…
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Medical students and physicians are forever looking to milestones
by Bruce Campbell MD December 29, 2018“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I…
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Excellent surgeons are those who are quick to recognize their mistakes
by Naeem Rahman MD December 27, 2018“Dr. Rahman, this is the nurse in OR 12, Dr. H is doing a robotic/laparoscopic hysterectomy. He thinks he’s injured the ureter…
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Excellent surgeons those who are quick to recognize their mistakes
by Naeem Rahman MD December 27, 2018“Dr. Rahman, this is the nurse in OR 12, Dr. H is doing a robotic/laparoscopic hysterectomy. He thinks he’s injured the ureter…
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Nearly half of Canadians aged 65 and over experience osteoarthritis in their knees. Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis and occurs…
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Physicians sacrifice a lot to deliver care. Technology shouldn’t ask for more.
by Erin Palm MD MBA December 4, 2018I had a great case the other night. Around midnight on a Friday, the hospitalist physician called me to evaluate an incarcerated…
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A surgeon mistakes a kidney for a tumor. How can this happen?
by Skeptical Scalpel MD December 3, 2018A number of media outlets recently featured a story about a Florida general surgeon who removed a normal kidney from a woman…
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I recently read an article entitled “The family said, ‘Do everything.’” It described the case of an elderly patient at the end-stage…