Why we have a prostate cancer screening controversy
Physicians must subjectively balance treatment risks and benefits, making consensus difficult, as human judgment varies in medical decisions.
Screening for prostate cancer not worthwhile
Many physicians avoid PSA screening for prostate cancer due to its mediocre accuracy and harmful treatment side effects, despite debate.
How guidelines and performance measures can increase diagnostic errors!
To recap an earlier post, physicians probably use two types of reasoning – intuitive (or automatic or simple) and analytic (or complex).
Women in medicine – different strokes for different folks
What does full-time really mean? How arbitrary is that term? Does devoting our lives solely to medicine make us better physicians?
That strep score really works
The paper reviews the diagnostic accuracy of symptoms and signs for predicting streptococcal pharyngitis in adults, validating the Centor Score.
From Twitter to Tenure #SGIM2011 – my thoughts
The blog post discusses the author’s experiences with social media, particularly blogging, and its positive impact on his career.
The hospitalist role
They are not there to make life easier for other physicians; they are there to care for complex medical patients.
One key to hospital medicine – skepticism
Keep thinking; remain skeptical; when in doubt go back to the bedside, talk to the patient and examine the patient.
Does an EMR impact our bedside manner?
Perhaps the EMR is an excuse for those awkward physicians who do not really like interacting with patients.
Physician integrity
As physicians we have a right, and the same responsibility as any citizen to have and make public our political views.