While our country’s law makers are in the midst of a summit to reform our health care system, it’s nice to see that basic mistakes are still happening on the local level!  Check out this story on a communication error that happened at a Brooklyn hospital today. Basically, an employee at a Brooklyn hospital called [...]

We all knew that hot dogs are bad for your health – they’re fatty, salty, meat-like products that are processed and processed again.  But did you know that they could kill more quickly than you might expect?  Not only can they have long term effects like clogging arteries and raising blood pressure, they pose a [...]

This weekend was the opening weekend for Martin Scorsese’s latest flick Shutter Island – a psycho thriller about a patient gone missing at a psychiatric hospital containing patients that are deemed criminally insane.   I won’t give away the plot, but it’s definitely a must see.  The profiles of the patients there are certainly over-dramatized; however, [...]

This past Sunday the New York Times had an interesting article about robotic versus open prostactectomy. True the long term benefits of having the procedure done either way may be the same. Having done the anesthesia for both types of surgery, I must say that the robot technique is better. First, the anesthesia is a lot easier. [...]

Februrary 8, 2010 was the day Dr. Conrad Murray, a Houston cardiologist, was formally charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter in the case of the death of Michael Jackson.  The Huffington Post has the whole story, which I’ll summarize and editorialize below. Basically, Murray was charged with manslaughter by the Los Angeles court system, [...]