How Much Paperwork for a Doctor and Other Professions?

Image courtesy of Gualberto107 at  FreeDigitalPhotos.net The Annals of Internal Medicine recently published a paper which investigated how much time a doctor spends on paperwork after following 57 U.S. physicians in family medicine, internal medicine, cardiology, and orthopedics who were observed for 430 hours, 21 of whom also completed after-hours diaries. The conclusion was during a typical day, 27.0% of their total time was on direct clinical face time with patients and 49.2% on "…

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Medical Translator Commercial...

I'm sure many patients would like a medical translator like this one shown in this humorous commercial. In case you haven't seen it yet...

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What do Earthquakes Have to do with Thyroid Masses?

I'm not sure what is going on within the Italian Court system, but in October 2012, the Italian Court convicted 7 scientists to jail terms for not accurately predicting the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake  that ended up killing over 300 people. Also in October 2012, the Italian Supreme Court ruled that cell phones caused one man's brain tumor . Since when does the Court decide on matters of scientific validity? And even more importantly, what does this have to do with ENT??? I&…

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Natalie Portman, Scientific Genius in REAL Life!

The New York Times published a great article about the serious scientific credentials of some of hollywood's most celebrated stars, Natalie Portman among them. As a student at Syosset High School on Long Island back in the late 1990s, Ms. Portman made it all the way to the semifinal rounds of the Intel Science Talent Search competition. Her project was a new “environmentally friendly” method of converting waste into useful forms of energy. She also went to Harvard University and studi…

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