I knew very little about Auto-brewery syndrome (ABS) prior to taking on this subject for this blog. My initial thoughts prior to researching it for the article (“No one believed him when he said he hadn’t been drinking. Then researchers found his body was producing alcohol(1)”) was that I had missed out. By that I…
This is not a blog about bashing the hubris of Mr. Cody Yochum. He’s probably a great guy just taking advantage of opportunities that avail themselves to him. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. I can’t write about his experience in nursing. I can only write about mine as a former RN for 15…
As I sit here on a weekend day amidst multiple MCQ banks of USMLE Step 3 prep, I take a break and read with interest a new research article on a head to head comparison of physicians to nurse practitioners (NP)/physician assistants (PA) (1). I’m interested as I use to be an NP prior to…
This article (1) title makes you think that this isn’t good. How can a program that is supposed to help people end up hurting people? Arkansas devised a Medicaid work requirement, but a study (2) found that thousands of poor adults lost their health coverage without evidence that employment increased in the target population. This…
I am Sam….. I am Doctor. I am Doctor. Doctor-I-Am. That PhD-I-Am! That DNP-I-Am! That PhamD-I-Am! That DPT-I-Am! That PsyD-I-Am! That DSW-I-Am! That DBA-I-Am! That DMS-I-Am! That DMD-I-Am! That DPM-I-Am! That ND-I-Am. That DCS-I-Am! I do not like that Doctor-I-Am! Do you like green eggs and ham? Do you like the medicine man (MD/DO)? I…
So to kick off this blog I thought it would be interesting to compare a few items relevant in my own life as it relates to the article (1). It’s open enrollment with my employer and I could choose plans of up to $13,500 a year for my share for the most expensive to include…
This is a challenging blog to write. On one hand we say to people to pay their bills. On the other hand we have the plight of the poor. This article references 5,700 lawsuits against patients by Ballad Health in its first fiscal year as a health system, which ended in June and 5,400 in the…
I understand I will take flack for the picture depicting a fake doctor with the title of the blog/article referencing Naturopathic doctors (1)? I write this blog because I care what is happening in health care today, and I’m proud to be an MD. I understand those earning a doctorate can use the title in academic settings,…
A lawsuit was brought by 2 former employees alleging ProScan of using lower-paid physician assistants to “ghost read” MRI images resulting in frequent misdiagnoses and missed diagnoses (1). The result were misreadings, misdiagnoses, and “grave concerns” by experts in the field. The article used the example of a misdiagnosis of a horse race jockey which originally resulted with…
GeneSight (1): A Brief Critical Read on the Impact of pharmacogenomics on clinical outcomes in major depressive disorder in the GUIDED trial: A large, patient- and rater-blinded, randomized, controlled study (2) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022395618310069) Gene Simmons, Gene&Tonic, GeneSight (1): What’s all the Hype? BLUF (bottom line up front): Study has limitations that limit the usefulness of the Genesight testing…