April 14, 2016
The other day an article in the Wall Street Journal caught my attention, and for all the wrong reasons. The article reviewed two recent Dutch studies showing that medical trainees have difficulty diagnosing patients with complicated histories or confounding psychosocial features. At least, that’s the way I would describe those studies.
September 23, 2015
A new study, scheduled to be published this week in the journal Lancet, will present “compelling evidence” for a controversial approach to promoting employee health. “We’re going to teach employees how to smoke cigarettes,” says Dr. Akhila Thomas, MD, lead author of the study and a professor at Houston’s Altria School of Public Health. At a press conference yesterday, Dr. Thomas explained: “We believe smoking might just be the ‘magic bullet’ to bring America’s over-stressed, overweight, sedentary, socially isolated, electronically intexticated workforce back to healthy work-styles and lifestyles.”