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Kevin Pho M.D. has written that a screening test incidentaloma can make healthy people ill. This is a theme that appears too frequently in the medical literature. When I previously addressed this issue in a prior article it did not then occur to me that the argument might be used to impair patients receiving recommended screening. [...]
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ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS in a recent New York Times article describes outrageous behavior by the clinical director and medical director of Harlem medical center. Under the direction of these former hospital officers (they have since been fired and demoted, respectively) the cardiology department of the Medical Center permitted 4,000 echocardiograms performed on patients suffering from suspected [...]
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January 1, 2010 Journal Watch summarizes a remarkable article entitled “Investigation of incidental findings on cardiac CT.” The article was based on a study conducted at a Canadian institution where the investigators evaluated the incidence, clinical importance, and costs of these incidental findings. It’s first important to note that these researchers used the word incidental [...]
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The mother heard speaking in the above ad was present when a teenage driver recklessly careened down a quiet street striking her young son. The teen pulled into the nearby driveway of his home not even having realized he had hit and dragged the child. Miraculously, the child had only suffered severe scrapes and bruises. [...]
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The Archives of Internal Medicine, June 22, 2009, published results of a retrospective medical record review involving nineteen community based and four academic medical center primary care practices. The researchers were intent upon examining how frequently patients were not informed of clinically significant abnormal outpatient test results. The researcher’s conclusion was that it is common [...]
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According to Alan Mozes’ report, Monday October 10 in Health Day Reporter, a new study suggests more than 12 percent of cancer patients in the U.S. are undiagnosed initially. Apparently this leads to treatment delays and lost opportunities for better outcomes. The study was conducted by a team of researchers from Canada, China and the [...]
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Each year many die of multiple myeloma. It is a cancer principally affecting bone but capable of metastasizing to the lung and soft tissue. A man or woman in their 40’s or 50’s suddenly suffering a fracture of some spinal element without any precedent trauma that they can recall is certainly a possible victim of [...]
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According to the CDC 99,000 people die annually from hospital-acquired infections. As Betsy McCaughey Ross, the former Lieutenant Governor of New York put it, “You don’t often come across such a big problem that you can prevent.” McCaughey started the committee to reduce infection deaths in New York. In Pennsylvania we suffer similar problems from [...]
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