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, [...]

The Boston Herald reported today that an emergency medicine resident at Stony Brook University Medical Center in Long Island posted an inappropriate picture to her Facebook page.  The photo is of a fellow classmate smiling and giving two thumbs up over a cadaver.  The picture was taken while the two were medical students at Stony [...]

Just thought I’d jump on the Toyota recall bandwagon and post a little something on acceleration/deceleration injuries. First, a little about the news topic. Toyota has been dealing with recalls for several models of their 2009 and 2010 line of vehicles. We first heard of this issue several months ago. We have seen and heard [...]

Seems that several doctors from Puerto Rico are chugging down big mugs of regret after posing for some objectionable pictures taken during a mission trip to Haiti.  CNN dug up pictures of the group on Facebook, posing with Haitian military, holding guns and smiling for the camera. CNN reports, as can be read in an [...]