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Watchful Waiting: Not just a Prostate Cancer Option 23 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Watchful waiting has become a term often thougt of as an alternative to surgery, radiation, or other interventions for early stage prostate cancer. Watchful waiting is actually a viable option for man...
Have You Heard or Non-compaction Cardiomyopathy 20 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
If you have never heard of non-compaction cardiomyopathy you are in good company. Every so often I have a patient who is diagnosed with a condition I’ve never heard about, and today that was non-compa...
Thoughts on Primary Care Access in 2014 and Beyond 9 Aug 2013 | 01:30 pm
As a family physician I look forward to the next few years in practice with a sense of uncertainty. One of biggest of these uncertainties is how to help meet the anticipated demand for primary care I...
What Drugs Does My Physician Prescribe? 2 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
For the first time I have easy access to apparently reliable data comparing medications I prescribe to my patients as compared to other physicians. A website called ProPublica: Journalism in the Publi...
Was Getting Bin Laden Worth It? 1 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The price has been in lives. The capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden occurred without loss of any U.S. military lives. It was hailed as a hugely successful special forces and intelligence operati...
Mike Zunino Swings, Misses and Fractures Hamate: Why Baseball Players Get Hamate Fractures 27 Jul 2013 | 11:08 pm
When Mike Zunino went on the DL for my beloved Seattle Mariners last week with a hamate fracture, the same type of injury Ken Griffey Jr. sustained in 1996, it prompted me to review how baseball playe...
Lots of Things Matter 19 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
This is just a short post to let readers compare graphical depiction of data on obesity, expected healthy years of life at age 65. I found the article enjoyable, and the analysis of the data to creat...
U.S. is Losing Ground on the Rest of the OPED in Health Status 12 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
Today let’s look at how the US compared to the other 33 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OPCD). I’m not going to dwell on the dollars issue. Given we spend mor...
5 Successes and 3 Failures in U.S. Health 1990-2010 11 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
Today in JAMA online is a report comparing morbidity and mortality in the United States in 1990 and 2010, and comparing the U.S. with 34 other wealthy nations over the same time frame. This is a repo...
Real Costs of Apixaban vs. Warfarin for DVT 2 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
This is just a brief post to start a conversation on the cost of treatment of acute deep vein thrombosis with initial low molecular weight heparin plus warfarin vs the new and per-pill expensive apixa...
