"The expense is curiosity, and the result is a generation of physicians entering clinical training with a knowledge base derived from test-preparation material."
- "The Curious Radiologist" discusses the deterioration of medical education he has witnessed in his time...
Work-product privilege is a type of peer review protection law that prevents information associated with the peer review process from being discovered in court. This protection is based on the idea that physicians won’t candidly discuss a colleague’s shortcomings if their statements later could...
It’s estimated that around 1,500 surgeries each year end with a retained surgical item (RSI). These patients often experience frequent infections, pain, bowel blockage, and other complications—and to add insult to injury, patients then need to be operated on again to remove the RSI.
The American Medical Association, Pennsylvania Medical Society, and Manatt Health released the first set of results in a series of studies examining state responses to opioid abuse; these particular results focused on the efforts made in Pennsylvania. The results reveal that access to evidence-...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 12
Eighty-five percent of physicians think it is never acceptable to cover up or avoid revealing a mistake if that mistake would cause harm to the patient. This is just one of the findings from Medscape’s 2018 Ethics Report, in which 5,200 physicians were asked ethical questions related to patients...
