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 | George Sledge, MD (Read all)
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Topic of Cancer
For an interesting take on what it is like to be a newly diagnosed cancer patient, I would recommend looking at Christopher Hitchens' "Topic of Cancer" in the September 2010 issue of Vanity Fair. Particularly amusing is his description of the modern cancer center (any guesses on which one it is... Read more
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Putting Together the Program
I just got back from ASCO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, my second home for the year. The occasion was the meeting of the Cancer Education Committee. Planning for our Annual Meeting begins almost immediately following the completion of the previous year’s meeting, with ASCO staff compiling ... Read more
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|  | Clement Adebamowo, MD, ScD (Read all)
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
The Oncology Challenge for Africa
I had been a practicing surgeon for several years before I returned to graduate school to study epidemiology. As one of the few Africans in my class, most people assumed that my area of study interest was HIV/AIDS given its high prevalence in Africa, controversy in the public health world about the ... Read more
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|  | Jonathan Berek, MD (Read all)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
New Voices for Age-Old Challenges
Both ASCO and its global membership strive to advance cancer care for patients throughout the developing world. According to the World Cancer Report, published by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the next 20 years will see a significant rise in cancer cases and cancer deaths, with th... Read more
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Ovarian Cancer Studies Creating Debate & Promise
Two studies recently presented at ASCO’s Annual Meeting have been an ongoing topic of discussion and debate for those of us who take care of women with ovarian cancer and those in the field of gynecologic oncology. The first research study of note is the phase III Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG 218... Read more
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|  | Douglas Blayney, MD (Read all)
Friday, April 09, 2010
My visit to an iKnowMed Practice
John Cox invited me to his Texas Oncology Practice at the Methodist Charlton Cancer Center in Dallas, to talk about multidisciplinary breast cancer clinics. After lunch, which was attended by most of the practice’s oncologists, John showed me his iKnowmed EHR. The iKnowmed product has changed since ... Read more
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Clinicians need to take back ownership of the medical record, and a cautionary word on privacy from a psychiatrist
An article by Schiff and Bates, writing in the March 25th New England Journal of Medicine, here caught my attention. They make some suggestions to answer the question, "Can electronic clinical documentation help prevent diagnostic errors?" They start with the premise that "electronic prescribing app... Read more
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|  | Anees Chagpar, MD (Read all)
Sunday, August 15, 2010
The Only Requirement for Mentors
It is no secret that one of the “secrets of success” is having a good mentor, or more often, a team of mentors who help shepherd you into being better than you are. These are the people who give you advice, who open doors and provide opportunities, who caution against pitfalls, and who ultimately st... Read more
Monday, July 12, 2010
Leadership
We all talk about it, read about it, even try to develop it . . . but what is “leadership”? What makes a great leader? Are we born with it? Do we learn it? Does it require age and experience, or is it an inherent ability to trail blaze in the absence of precedence?
Having just completed the inaugur... Read more
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|  | John Cox, DO, MBA, FACP (Read all)
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
To grieve over our past OR Change the world!!!
As I highlighted in the May editor’s desk column -- a colleague noted that in traveling the country, she had found oncologists often voiced feelings of being victimized by the ‘system’. They were tired, overburdened by the moment, and struggling with market forces in their locales, whether insurance... Read more
Friday, April 16, 2010
Death of Small Practice OR Rise of an Integrated System
I ran across a post on a healthcare blog that I would encourage folk to read. Jann Sidorov writes about the predicted death of small practices. I love his analogy to an impressionist painting – by standing too close it is easy to miss the bigger picture. Though I see the picture differently than he ... Read more
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|  | L. Michael Glodé, MD (Read all)
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
More on End of Life Discussions
I have no intention of devoting this blog to nothing but palliative care, but since one of my patients brought it to my attention, I can't help making sure anyone who reads here has seen a few of the articles that relate to end of life discussions. An excellent article in the NYT discusses the recen... Read more
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Death's Door
A couple of events this week reminded me of what I can best describe as "our calling." The first was the good-bye party for an administrative staff member in an outreach clinic I attend. She had spent most of her career working in a busy orthopedic practice and the last 6 months working with our onc... Read more
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|  | Robert Miller, MD (Read all)
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Physician Electronic Availability and Expectation Creep
Physician blogger Wes Fisher aka Dr. Wes, a cardiac electrophysiologist from North Shore in Evanston, IL, laments the “devaluation” of physician time in a recent blog post When the Doctor’s Always In:
As we move into our new era of health care delivery with millions more needing physician time (a... Read more
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Bookmarked PDF's of the Meaningful Use & Standards Rules
How sweet is this? See John Halamka's blog for bookmarked versions of the 864 page Meaningful Use Regulations and the 228 page Certification Standards Rule. Unless of course you would rather read 1000+ PDF pages without a table of contents...... Read more
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|  | Peter Yu, MD (Read all)
Monday, August 16, 2010
How to Design a Better Camel?
It’s said that a camel was the result when a committee got together to design a horse. Over the next two months, the Institute of Medicine and the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT (Health Information Technology) will convene 100 experts to debate and design what a national HIT infrastructu... Read more
Friday, July 16, 2010
It's heating up this summer for HIT
In the last 48 hours, CMS released the final rules governing the first stage of MU and CCHIT launched its oncology workgroup. Things are heating up this July. The ARRA regulations for the incentive program for implementation of meaningful use of HIT were released as 3 documents. The one of gre... Read more
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