Category Archives: Miscellaneous

The price of defensive medicine

New Study Compares Tort Systems — Reform Improves Health Care for Patients A new study by the Pacific Research Institute, US Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report, measures the best and worst tort systems in America. In the report, the authors … Continue reading

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Obese patients at higher risk during surgery

Straightfromthedoc: Risk of Post-Operative Complications, Higher in Obese Patients: Morbidly obese patients had a death rate nearly twice as high as that of all other patients, had higher rate of cardiac arrest and have significantly higher risk of complications following … Continue reading

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Thromboembolic disease after renal surgery

UroToday – Perioperative Clinical Thromboembolic Events after Radical or Partial Nephrectomy This study demonstrates that while the incidence of thromboembolic phenomena is low in patients undergoing renal surgery, there are specific subsets of patients that can be identified that are … Continue reading

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Pediatric Robotic Surgery

There is an excellent website on robotic pediatric surgery. The surgery is performed using robotic technology by John Meehan, MD and assisted by Anthony Sandler, MD of the University of Iowa. They have a lot of videos of their surgical … Continue reading

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Robotic patient

Medical students treat dummies that bleed, speak, and die – Engadget The University of Portsmouth is upping the ante on its training facilities for those making the rounds in med school, and doctors-to-be now have access to �135,000 ($266,706) dummies … Continue reading

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Profitability

I agree that the reimbursement for a radical prostatectomy should be more than it is, but that is true for nearly everything we do these days at the hospital. You are paid a little more for the code for a … Continue reading

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