Browsing the archives for the research category
NPR has a great blog on their website called “Shots” about current events in health care. Last week Scott Hensley, the main blogger there, posted about a recent article on treatment of prostate cancer from the Archives of Internal Medicine. If you look at the article, you may notice a very small subheading above the article’s [...]
It’s hard to think of a medical concept (let alone any concept!) from the last quarter century that has achieved as much penetration into our culture than CHOLESTEROL. Every patient I can think of, whether rich or poor, old or young, educated or not knows that “cholesterol is bad for you,” and that you should strive [...]
Time to say a thing or two about research. At academic medical centers (AMCs–what we used to call ‘teaching hospitals’) like GlassHospital, the holy trinity of mission is comprised of patient care teaching research. I used to joke that at GlassHospital, our priority list was research research research —————– patient care teaching. We’re moving away [...]