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Topic: medical ethics

Midei, St. Joseph Medical Center stent case ‘extreme’

Midei, St. Joseph Medical Center stent case ‘extreme’

December 9, 2010 8:54 am by | 1 Comments

There’s a lot of buzz this week about an unflattering report from the Senate Finance Committee (Staff Reports on Cardiac Stent Usage at St. Joseph’s Medical Center). This is a ... Read more
Dismissed Baltimore doctor got research funding, gifts from Abbott

Dismissed Baltimore doctor got research funding, gifts from Abbott

December 6, 2010 6:24 pm by | 0 Comments

A Baltimore-area doctor who was dismissed by his hospital for alleged fraud and sued by hundreds of patients in whom he implanted coronary stents manufactured by Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) was ... Read more
U. of Minnesota profs demand investigation of drug trial death

U. of Minnesota profs demand investigation of drug trial death

December 6, 2010 9:10 am by | 2 Comments

A group of University of Minnesota professors want the board of regents to investigate the suicide of a patient enrolled in a university-run drug study. the professors demand ... Read more
Cleveland Clinic to host business ethics seminar

Cleveland Clinic to host business ethics seminar

December 1, 2010 12:28 pm by | 0 Comments

Cleveland Clinic on Wednesday will host the first in a series of meetings with local business leaders aimed at promoting ethical business practices. The meeting comes at a time when ... Read more
Sen. Grassley: How does FDA define doctor ’conflict of interest?’

Sen. Grassley: How does FDA define doctor ’conflict of interest?’

October 25, 2010 1:37 pm by | 0 Comments

Sen. Charles Grassley fired off the latest in a series of letters aimed at the healthcare bureaucracy, this times asking Food & Drug Administration chief Dr. Margaret Hamburg how her ... Read more
Better hospitals = lower risk of dying (Morning Read)

Better hospitals = lower risk of dying (Morning Read)

October 20, 2010 8:50 am by | 0 Comments

An independent study by HealthGrades of patient outcomes at America's hospitals found that patients at 5-star rated hospitals had a 72 percent lower risk of dying when compared with ... Read more
Nashville’s medical trade center good for economy (Morning Read)

Nashville’s medical trade center good for economy (Morning Read)

October 19, 2010 8:46 am by | 0 Comments

Forty-four percent of the people who took a poll by the Nashville Business Journal think their city's medical trade center project is key for economic development so it should ... Read more
Cerra leaves University of Minnesota with a mixed legacy

Cerra leaves University of Minnesota with a mixed legacy

September 29, 2010 12:47 pm by | 3 Comments

A quick scan of Dr. Frank Cerra's 14-year tenure as head of the University of Minnesota's health science programs causes one word to come to mind: "Big." Yet big doesn't ... Read more
Carl Elliott doesn’t do Big Medical any favors

Carl Elliott doesn’t do Big Medical any favors

September 27, 2010 9:00 am by | 0 Comments

"Well, the book is not particularly kind to the drug and device industry, which seems to be your main readership," Dr. Carl Elliott wrote in an e-mail. Um... yeah. With ... Read more
Medical device consultants mum on conflicts (Morning Read)

Medical device consultants mum on conflicts (Morning Read)

September 14, 2010 8:34 am by | 0 Comments

Twenty-five out of 32 highly paid consultants to medical device companies in 2007 -- or their publishers -- failed to reveal the financial connections in journal articles the following year, ... Read more
Pfizer money shapes some journalists’ view of cancer

Pfizer money shapes some journalists’ view of cancer

August 25, 2010 4:32 pm by | 1 Comments

Frankly, if there is one issue in medicine that doesn't need more attention right now, its cancer (I make one exception: we need more journalists who know how cover the ... Read more
Torture doctors’ names should be public

Torture doctors’ names should be public

August 11, 2010 5:12 pm by | 3 Comments

JAMA this month has commentary piece on the ethical failure of physicians in the CIA Office of Medical Services (OMS) who helped organize, calibrate, and supervise the torture of unarmed, ... Read more
Massachusetts doctors still won’t get free pens

Massachusetts doctors still won’t get free pens

August 4, 2010 8:01 pm by | 0 Comments

It looks like the Massachusetts “gift ban” won’t be repealed after all.A provision to spike the Commonwealth’s ban on gifts for physicians from medical device and pharmaceutical companies failed to ... Read more
A patient’s case for human experimentation

A patient’s case for human experimentation

July 5, 2010 12:52 pm by | 0 Comments

I received a heart breaking email recently. Frankly it made me cry. There are a lot of patient confidentiality details I must withhold but it is worth expressing this story.A ... Read more
Pharma consumer advertising: What’s the real cost?

Pharma consumer advertising: What’s the real cost?

June 28, 2010 6:52 am by | 2 Comments

I find it interesting that I can't get a $0.10 pen from the drug companies any longer, but our patients can get billions of dollars in advertising given to them ... Read more