Dr. Wes
Musings in the life of an internist, cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist.
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It seems only fitting that in this time of Thanksgiving, we take a moment and reflect on things that really make a difference, some of which go unnoti...
Tags: hearing
In Dr. Wes - Posted 1 week ago
Here's some nice footage of open heart bypass surgery.(Warning: the heart contains blood.)In medical school, I was always impressed that the sounds an...
Tags: bypass surgery heart surgery
In Dr. Wes - Posted 1 week ago
The book The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell makes an interesting premise: that large sociological changes are usually hatched from small incrementa...
Tags: balance
In Dr. Wes - Posted 1 week ago
Paul Levy, President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA explains:Without making any representations about the relative clin...
Tags: urology
In Dr. Wes - Posted 1 week ago
I really don't like it when policy wonks use the term stakeholder in the health care debate. I mean, what do they mean? Do they mean someone holding...
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How do Wellpoint (Angela Braley, President and CEO), Pfizer (James Kindler, Chairman and CEO), Mayo Clinic (Denis Cortese, MD, President and CEO), and...
In Dr. Wes - Posted 2 weeks ago
I heard this on the radio this morning:On the 10th anniversary of the $246 billion settlement, the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids has done an analysis...
Tags: kids
In Dr. Wes - Posted 2 weeks ago
Some are resorting to selling vitamins:(Medscape - subscription required) As cardiologists' income has been declining, we've seen a trend toward addi...
Tags: vitamins
In Dr. Wes - Posted 2 weeks ago
I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find that taking a history from a patient is important:However, almost half of all coronary events , such as hea...
In Dr. Wes - Posted 2 weeks ago
No wonder public schools like it:But the popularity of kids-free communities also adds an interesting wrinkle to the debate over Illinois' school-ai...
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