From the monthly archives:

March 2008

Mark Herrmann: Regulation by lightning bolt

March 31, 2008

The following is a reader take by Mark Herrmann.
Last month, the Supreme Court held that manufacturers of medical devices approved for marketing by the FDA through the “pre-market approval” process generally cannot be sued by private plaintiffs. The medical device industry hailed that decision. At long last, companies that ran the regulatory gauntlet of [...]

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Fear and "condition branding"

March 31, 2008

Shannon Brownlee: “By constantly reminding us to be on the lookout for illness, doctors and the media have made many Americans feel more anxious. I’m not so sure their warnings have made us any healthier, but they have decidedly eroded our sense of well-being. We worry about every ache and pain; we fret that the [...]

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Dosing infants

March 31, 2008

Can be tantamount to guesswork.

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Tanning industry

March 31, 2008

The new Big Tobacco?

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What do Schering-Plough and Spitzer have in common?"

March 31, 2008

“Both had high-priced whores who turned on them in the end.”

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Search for a defibrillator magnet

March 31, 2008

Shadowfax: “Long after the patient had basically expired, long after his heart had lost the ability to beat in any sort of functional pattern, the silly thing kept pacing away and periodically issued a shock, which caused the patient’s body to twitch in a manner most distressing to the family.”

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The fallacy of "more medicine"

March 31, 2008

Unnecessary tests for no reason simply leads to more invasive diagnostic studies.

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Anal retentive . . .

March 31, 2008

. . . or simply a good surgeon?

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Part-time doctors and the physician shortage

March 30, 2008

An increasing number of part-time physicians are leading to access problems. Is this shades of what’s happening in Canada?

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Rural medicine

March 30, 2008

Even loan forgiveness may not be enough to lure doctors.

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Hospitalists and referrals

March 30, 2008

The Happy Hospitalist: “Hospitalist medicine has changed the landscape. New relationships are being formed. Based on respect instead of fear and ass kissing. Some will survive. Those that don’t accommodate will die the way of the dinosaur. You could, in fact, say that these are market forces creating respect [...]

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Vytorin: "No added benefit"

March 30, 2008

Ouch. (via Peter Rost)

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Cardiologists doing primary care: "You’re not very good at it"

March 30, 2008

#1 Dinosaur: “Don’t go ordering lipids (which I just did a month ago) and prescribing Chantix (which I’ve already given him twice) and basically trying to do Primary Care. You don’t know what you’re doing, and you don’t even realize it.”

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Customer satisfaction

March 30, 2008

Associating it with job security is simply wrong:
Just telling someone off when they deserved it and not dispensing dilaudid like a dealer should not be grounds for termination in my book.

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Surrogate mothers

March 30, 2008

Newsweek: “Surrogates challenge our most basic ideas about motherhood, and call into question what we’ve always thought of as an unbreakable bond between mother and child. It’s no wonder many conservative Christians decry the practice as tampering with the miracle of life, while far-left feminists liken gestational carriers to prostitutes who degrade themselves by renting [...]

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