Navigating Complex Treatment Decisions

If any reader would like to write a dissenting view, given coherence and logic, I will gladly publish that view as a rant

Analyzing Medical Facts: Impact on Clinical Decision-Making

This is powerful stuff. I rant about these problems regularly, but this article really does a great job of explicating the problem.

In the meantime, remember that we should evaluate each article independent of the journal in which it is published.

I have not ranted on this subject for a long time (malpractice, the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry kept getting in the way).

Physicians who dispense large amounts of such painkillers should quickly lose their licenses and DEA numbers.

The New England Journal of Medicine has several interesting articles today about the US and Canadian health systems.

Since their introduction in the 80s they have made large amounts of money for their respective drug companies. That will probably change very soon.

I doubt that it would change work hours or pay at good programs. But it would disminish the process of finding the best residency.

So I recommend to everyone who asks to pursue medicine, unless their goal is to make money.

Well, time to quit typing. I have to read some medical trivia so that later today I can transform into my alter ego – Pimp Master!!!