October 9th, 2014
Why Bad Doctors Are Like Bad Writers: The Curse Of Knowledge
Larry Husten, PHD
Larry Husten applies Steven Pinker’s ideas about the difficulties of writing to the field of medicine by looking at what makes it difficult for doctors to communicate with their patients.
February 13th, 2012
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Weekly Review: Week of February 13th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include communicating with patients about screening and treatment and the association between blood-pressure-lowering drugs and gout.
March 14th, 2011
The Common Thread Among Top-Performing Hospitals
Leslie Curry, PhD, MPH
A qualitative study just published in the Annals of Internal Medicine outlines some important distinctions between hospitals that have the lowest AMI mortality rates in the U.S and those that have the highest. The key factor? A supportive organizational culture. Here, study investigator Leslie Curry, PhD, MPH walks us through what that means and how […]
NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Cardiology Articles- Sex-Based Disparity in CABG Outcomes: Are We Moving Toward Parity?
- Can Genetic and Social Risk Scores Improve Cardiac Risk Prediction?
- Extensive Ablation vs. Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
- Can a Novel Stent Design Improve Long-Term Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention?
- Are Angiographically-Derived Coronary Physiology Measurements Ready for Use in the Cath Lab?