Doctors

As the World Turns, So Are the Days of a Medical Transcriptionist

I found this candid piece by a medical transcriptionist hilarious, even though some of the mistakes made by either the doctor or the transcriptionist shouldn’t be funny at all. I always wondered why doctors carried around a microrecorder and mutter to themselves in the hallway or at their desks. “Wouldn’t it be easier to learn [...]

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Can Doctors Practice Preventive Medicine and Still Make a Living?

The mission of MDVIP is to change primary care practice in America by allowing their member doctors to practice medicine the way that MDVIP believes that medicine should be practiced: by focusing on prevention and empowering patients. According to a press release from the company in a landmark deal with Procter & Gamble, its business [...]

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Antibiotic Stripped of 2 of 3 Approved Indications

This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed 2 of 3 approved indications for the semi-synthetic macrolide antibiotic telithromycin (Ketek, manufactured by sanofi-aventis). Ketek loses its indication for (1) acute bacterial sinusitis and (2) acute bacterial exacerbations of chronic bronchitis, often abbreviated as “ABECB”. Ketek remains approved for community acquired pneumonia of mild [...]

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Making Businessmen of Doctors and Scientists

Some special interest groups are very critical of financial conflicts of interests between businesses (namely, pharmaceutical industry) and doctors and scientists. I’ve seen and worked on both sides. I think it’s very important to educate doctors and scientists on all aspects of medicine – the scientific, business, and sociopolitical aspects. Don’t like the purported influence [...]

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Truth in Medical Marketing and CMEs

Recently newsgroup user jkellymdmph asked a question that I had brought up when Google Co-op Health first launched: How can this group health effort can resist infiltration by aggressive marketing? jkellymdmph goes on to describe a continuing medical education (CME) event he attended that was supported with an unrestricted grant from a pharmaceutical company. There [...]

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