Anchoring bias is a well known cognitive bias in medicine. The term refers to overemphasizing early-acquired information. One example which occurs in medicine that looks
A report by the group Public Citizen shed some light on state medical licensing boards across the country. The report examined the extent to which
In the midst of the COVID pandemic, another one is slowly brewing that may, by 2050, kill 10 million people a year. This global pandemic
Not every hospital has the capacity to keep a neurologist on call to treat stroke patients. Many regional hospitals only keep one or two doctors
A transient ischemic attack (called a TIA) can lead to increased risk of future strokes. A TIA is sometimes called a “mini-stroke,” and often is transient
The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are catastrophic, resulting in millions of sick people, hundreds of thousands of deaths in the U.S., and an economy
For the past ten plus years there has been controversy in medicine about whether tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) was effective in treating acute ischemic stroke
For many years, a basic assumption has been that very long shifts for emergency room doctors (sometimes as long as 24 hours) result in lowered
Chances are, you’ve worn a pulse oximeter. It’s a nifty little device that gently clips to a small body part, typically the end of your
It may be common sense to think that life events do affect how people perform their job. In most of our professions, distractions come with