UTIs and Antibiotic Stewardship
by Dr. Alan Lindemann I’m a 73-year old OB-GYN who started medical school 48 years ago in 1973. Currently I am the Chief of Staff at four nursing homes and also...
Tag: checklist medicine
absolutes/big business medicine/CDC/health care reform/Medicaid/simplistic solutions to complex problems
Antibiotics and the River Styx
Just try to get a post-surgery antibiotic. It’s easier to cross the River Styx. I understand the reasoning behind the notion of “antibiotic stewar...
art of medicine/artificial intelligence/big business medicine/black box/evidence-based medicine/story space/the sound-bite mindset
Marmots* and “Evidence-Based” Medicine
While I understand the reasoning behind evidence-based medicine (EBM), common sense tells us that no rules are going to correctly fit a situation 100 percent of...
art of medicine/electronic medical records/evidence-based medicine/health care reform/physician-patient relationship
Consider the Hashtag #Godgifu
I’ve been giving some thought to how to portray in a twitter-short way the fake news element. A major goal of public relations is to find a nice word to wallpap...
MACRA…An Open Letter to Andy Slavitt
I am not a physician, so have no credentials to be telling the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) how to run hospitals, much less physicians how t...
