We should do a better job teaching “red flags”

Over the years, I have written about the short head and long tail. You can use the search function to find several posts since then.

Antibiotic resistance – should we blame primary care or ICU physicians?

Most organisms already have developed resistance to penicillin, amoxicillin and first generation cephalosporins.

I truly believe that we are well represented on the ABIM board by thoughtful, ethical physicians, many of whom I know.

I hope we can find a company (or more than one) who would develop a point-of-care test for Fusobacterium necrophorum.

I have both publicly and privately criticized the former MOC process. Along with my colleagues we urged major changes in the process.

We all need a roadmap for true improvement. I think MOC could provide that roadmap. If so, then MOC would be most valuable.

We need to look at programs that are successfully addressing burnout before we speculate on ways to decrease burnout.

Recently, 79 members of Facebook’s Lemierre’s Syndrome Survivor group (which has 813 members) answered a hastily written survey.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

We physicians must question authority. We must all understand that science is rarely settled, rather science is always evolving.