With USMLE Now Pass/Fail, Residency Directors Dread Having to Read Rest of Application
ATLANTA, GA—While medical students everywhere rejoice over the news that Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) is moving to a...
New Smartphone EMR Technology Allows Up To 120 Office Visits Per Hour
Primary care medicine got a lot faster last month when AutoDoc Technologies rolled out its newest diagnostic/EMR system, expected to allow physicians to see...
CDC: Pictures Now Worth 2300 Words, Up from a Thousand, Time to Chart with...
ATLANTA, GA - In a development that may have implementations for charting and medical documentation and all the health care professionals lucky enough to...
Hospital’s ‘Take Your Daughter to Work’ Day Not Such a Good Idea
ST. LOUIS, MO - Hepatobiliary surgeon Dr. Jeanne Devereux was disappointed. "How hard could it be?!" she fumed. "Just hold the damn retractor and...
ENT Docs Vote Unanimously to Drop the Nose, Will Only Treat Ear & Throat
ALEXANDRIA, VA—In a move that has left many speechless, the board of directors of the American Academy of Otolaryngology (AAO) voted unanimously today to...
Apocolyptic Electronic Medical Record Becomes Self-Aware
"And just like that, the world burned." Those haunting words were discovered deep within a nursing note by hospitalist Kilty McSwagger while he was...
Doctors Earn CME Credit for Watching Medical Dramas
CHICAGO, IL - In a statement released earlier today, the Accreditation Council For Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) announced that doctors can earn continuing medical...
Surgical Tech Accuses Da Vinci Robot of Sexual Harassment
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The fight against sexual harassment in the work place has recently been taken into unchartered territory. Due to the continued improvement...
Disaster Strikes After Intern Accidentally Orders Bowel ‘Regiment’
The world was stunned yesterday by events at County Hospital. Mr. Brown, an 88-year-old man with dementia, had been admitted with altered mental status...
Anesthesiologist Proposes Use of Metric Time
HOUSTON, TX - Dr. Alan Payne, an anesthesiologist and physicist, proposes the use of metric time for determining surgical time duration.
“How many times at...