Kudos to Southwestern Michigan College's "flagship" Nursing Center of Excellence for getting "SimMan," a $42,000 computer-operated robot, to train its 10-member nursing staff to help reduce medical errors. (link to article here). I got to see one...
I just fell in love with Damaged Care, a cabaret act by two docs about the state of the healthcare industry that I wrote about a few years ago. That was the first--and probably last--time I actually had an interviewee sing to me! They were...
According to this article in Inside Bay Area, the Permanente Medical Group has put into place "strict conflict of interest rules for their 5,500 participating Northern California physicians...Other medical groups contracting with Kaiser around the...
For those who are looking for a little fun this afternoon, check out this post fromAnne Taylor-Vaisey: ...
Not in Medical Meetings, let me assure you! But this disturbing article from the online version of the Journal of General Internal Medicine (full citation: Fugh-Berman, Adriane (2005), The Corporate Coauthor. Journal of General Internal Medicine 0...
And now, how about a daily dose of Dilbert--I'm not sure what to say about it, other than public antipathy toward the pharma industry now has migrated all the way to the funny pages. (Thanks, Irwin, for the pointer!)
From an ACCME e-mail: ...