Genentech Offers Secret Rebates to Promote Lucentis – NYTimes.com.
Is it OK for drug companies to give money to Doctors to write a certain prescription? This article digs into the practice.
November 3, 2010
November 2, 2010
End-of-Life Care for Patients With Advanced Dementia – NYTimes.com
End-of-Life Care for Patients With Advanced Dementia – NYTimes.com.
Dementia can be more devastating to the loved ones than the patient because the patient has no real grasp of what is going on. Hospice provides such a benefit to dying patients and their families, but very few dementia patients are included because the course of their disease can be so slow. This NY Times article looks at the issue of Why so few dementia patients receive hospice care.
October 30, 2010
You get what you pay for and less
Mail order pharmacies have cheap prices, but also problems.
This link is to another blog, KevinMD.com. He relates a story about a major problem with the mail order pharmacy business, poor customer service. I have worked with a few family Doctors and have seen how much of their time is taken up dealing with these behemoth business. I have seen that they do routinely loss prescription faxes. They force patients to take their “preferred” medicine over what the Doctor actually thinks the patient should be on. Thinking of switching to a mail order? Beware, the grass is not always greener and it may not be as cheap as you think.
October 28, 2010
First Day Nerves
Just learned that my first rotation as a Family Medicine Resident will be Obstetrics. Wow, am I nervous!
Even though, I worked as a Paramedic for 10 years, I never had to deliver a child in the field. The only child that I ever delivered was my son, Ian. We had a resident with us during his delivery. Her name was Dr. Vino. I have often wondered where she ended up because she told us that Ian was the first baby that she ever delivered.
In less than a week, people are going to be looking to me to be their doctor. My palms can start to sweat just thinking about it and my palms don’t sweat. ever! So, I’m going to be saying a lot of prayer and reading a lot and trying to prepare.
I guess this is why I went to Medical school. Wow! What was I thinking?!?
October 26, 2010
GlaxoSmithKline unit to pay $750 million penalty – Oct. 26, 2010
GlaxoSmithKline unit to pay $750 million penalty – Oct. 26, 2010.
This is shocking. Not the size of the fine, but the fact that no one is going to jail for selling tainted baby products and ineffective depression medicine. KNOWINGLY selling these items. They should lose a few patents on their overpriced brand name drugs. I’m will make it a point to remember this when I’m prescribing medicines. GlaxoSmithKline shame on you!!
October 25, 2010
Taste Receptors in Lungs may hold key to better Asthma meds
The University of Maryland School of Medicine has discovered bitter taste receptors in the Lungs open up bronchial airways better than currently used medicines.
October 24, 2010
Austria’s ‘Bionic Man’ Dies In Car Crash
Slashdot Technology Story | Austria’s ‘Bionic Man’ Dies In Car Crash.
“An Austrian man who became the first person outside the US to wear thought-powered ‘bionic’ arms has died from injuries sustained in a car crash … Kandlbauer, who would have turned 23 next month, sustained severe head injuries when the specially modified car he was driving swerved off the road in the south east of Austria and crashed into a tree on October 19. The cause of the accident is not yet known, particularly whether the neurally-controlled arm-prostheses he had been fitted with might have played a role.”
Bon Secours Kentucky Health System
Bon Secours Kentucky Health System.
Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital in Ashland, KY will be my home away from home for the next three years. I’m kind of nervous, kind of excited, kind of scared, and kind of thrilled. On November 1st, I go from being a “Student Doctor” to a “Resident Physician”. For the next three years, I will complete my training toward becoming a Family Medicine doctor. In my first week at WVSOM, an instructor read to us from a Dr.Suess book. Once again, I remember the words. “Oh… the places I will go.”
August 26, 2010
New treatment for advanced melanoma
What great news for a terrible disease!
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/new-melanoma-drugs/
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