Related with "BLOGTOBERFEST: LARRY MUNSON WILL TOTALLY NARRATE…"
MRI for breast cancer screening
Today, the ACS recommends MRI screening for women at high risk. The definition of high risk is not totally clear, and there is no mortality data on MRI screening. However, it seems there is a movement towards MRI breast screening in the general population. This would relieve some[...]
DVT Awareness on NBC’s The Today Show
The chief of our Section of Hospital Medicine, Frank Michota, was invited to discuss DVT awareness on NBC’s The Today Show last week. Click to see the video. Frank was on The Today Show with Melanie Bloom, the widow of David Bloom, an NBC journalist who died suddenly in 2003 in[...]
Living wills
Dad writes out his Living Will Moving on from, but related to, yesterday’s article on “The right to die” I saw a woman in her early fifties this morning. She has breast cancer. She was diagnosed six years ago and currently is in complete remission. I saw her about something else.[...]
Single payer: Some common sense talk
Great post on the ills of a single-payer system. Money quote: If you were to get in a scrap with a mean old junkyard dog and he managed to sink his teeth into your scrotum, from that point forward the dog is totally in charge. You may have the complete[...]
