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Surgical Site Infections After Cardiac Surgery: Surveillance and Reimbursement Systems designed for surveillance of SSIs will now be used for determining reimbursement, not considering the most important risk factors for infection. William R. Jarvis, MD, explains. 10/27/10 Free View In iTunes
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A Simple Way to Avoid Malpractice Litigation Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman discusses physician vulnerability to legal accusations and offers a simple means of reducing malpractice risk. 10/21/10 Free View In iTunes
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How Do We Do Surveillance for Catheter-Associated BSIs? How is your ICU's rate of catheter-associated bloodstream infections determined and why is this important? William R. Jarvis, MD, offers some details about the process you need to consider 10/15/10 Free View In iTunes
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Medscape One-on-One With Howard Jones, MD: IVF Past and Present in the Light of the Nobel Prize Eli Adashi, MD, talks to Howard Jones, MD, about the state of in vitro fertilization and his leadership in bringing the first test tube baby to the United States. 10/13/10 Free View In iTunes
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Keys to Success With Accountable Care Organizations To remain profitable as the healthcare environment changes, doctors need to consider getting involved with accountable care organizations. There are 2 key steps to success. 10/13/10 Free View In iTunes
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Dr. John Howard From CDC's NIOSH Discusses the Consequences of the Gulf Oil Spill John Howard, MD, MPH, JD, Director, NIOSH, talks to Eli Adashi, MD, about the efforts to protect health during and after the Gulf oil spill. 10/1/10 Free View In iTunes
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Medscape One-on-One: Kathleen Sebelius Speaks Out on the Affordable Care Act at 6 Months Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of HHS, talks to Eli Adashi, MD, about the promise of the Affordable Care Act to transform a "sickness system" into true healthcare. 9/22/10 Free View In iTunes
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Expanding the Primary Care Workforce HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius describes what is being done to increase the number of primary care providers. 9/19/10 Free View In iTunes
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Mandating Influenza Vaccine: One Hospital's Experience How well did it work when The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia mandated that all hospital employees get influenza vaccinations? Paul A. Offit, MD, offers his commentary. 9/13/10 Free View In iTunes
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Psychiatric Care Shortage: What the Future Holds Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman discusses the worsening shortage of psychiatric resources and how our population's future mental health needs can be met. 9/2/10 Free View In iTunes
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Malpractice Watch: Keep an Eye Out for Side Effects Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman discusses the importance of monitoring and means of addressing side effects associated with antipsychotic therapy. 8/31/10 Free View In iTunes
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Is "Conflict of Interest" Actually Conflicting With the Interests of Patients? Henry Black, MD, and Michael Weber, MD, ponder the question of "conflict of interest" and whether applying it too broadly will harm medical knowledge, and patient health. 8/2/10 Free View In iTunes
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Do You Want a Cola or a Cure? Dr. Miller reports that US funds for cancer research amount to 69 cents per person per week. Put another way, cancer research dollars amount to one sixth of what Americans spend on soft drinks. 7/26/10 Free View In iTunes
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Overcoming Therapeutic Inertia -- Is This Just About Selling Drugs? Robert Morrow, MD, wants you to consider the idea that, in many cases, overcoming therapeutic inertia might be playing into the hands of the sales rep. 6/28/10 Free View In iTunes
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Medscape Great Debate: Will Healthcare Reform Mean Mortgaging the Future for a Short-term Fix? Dr. Louis Weiner moderates a Medscape Great Debate with Drs. Michael Neuss, Leonard Saltz, and Nicholas Robert on the impact of healthcare reform on the present and future practice of oncology. 6/21/10 Free View In iTunes
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Meaningful Use -- An Electronic Health Record Express Train Bearing Down on Our Practice Robert Morrow, MD, discusses meaningful use and the problem of building electronic health records that matter for both patient care and practice management. 6/14/10 Free View In iTunes
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Top Scientific Papers vs Furry Green Slippers: Which Should You Trust? Andrew Vickers, PhD, our regular columnist on statistics, walks the streets of Brooklyn, searching for clinically relevant statistics at a tag sale. 6/9/10 Free View In iTunes
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The H2H Initiative -- Send Heart Failure Patients Home and Keep Them There Ileana Piña, MD, describes Hospital-to-Home (H2H), a joint initiative of the ACC and IHI to reduce rehospitalization of patients who have heart failure. 5/28/10 Free View In iTunes
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Marijuana: Becoming Legal State by State? In this third video in a series on medical marijuana, Sandra Fryhofer, MD, talks about legal issues now that 14 states have made this substance available for medical use. 5/3/10 Free View In iTunes
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Marijuana: The Current and Potential Medical Benefits In this second video in a series on medical marijuana, Sandra Fryhofer, MD, discusses the therapeutic benefits of medical marijuana and why it might be important to reclassify it. 4/26/10 Free View In iTunes
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Marijuana: An Ancient Herb With a Checkered Past Sandra Fryhofer, MD, introduces a 3-part series on medical marijuana and discusses both its properties and its long and interesting history. 4/19/10 Free View In iTunes
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Medscape One-on-One: Comparative Effectiveness In the latest one-on-one video series, Dr. Eli Adashi and colleagues discuss the complexities of comparative effectiveness and its impact on US healthcare. 4/15/10 Free View In iTunes
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Supply and Demand After the Healthcare Bill: A Cardiologist's Perspective and Concerns Ileana Piña expresses her concerns about the increase in chronic illness and healthcare demands while the supply of primary care physicians dwindles. 3/25/10 Free View In iTunes
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The Health Reform Act -- An Opportunity for Physician Power Robert Morrow, MD, comments on how the health reform act will affect primary care physicians. As always, he has the specific perspective of the family physician in the Bronx. 3/25/10 Free View In iTunes
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The Hope and Fear of Healthcare Reform The wave of reaction to the healthcare reform bill, as Dr. John Marshall sees it, ranges from the hope that the legislation will improve US healthcare to the fear that it will mess everything up. 3/23/10 Free View In iTunes
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CDC Commentary: Healthcare-Associated Infections -- A Continuing Threat to Public Health In this video commentary from the CDC, Denise Cardo, MD, describes how evidence-based guidelines must be translated into practice to eliminate HAIs. 3/11/10 Free View In iTunes
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A Hospital Field Trip for the US Congress In this video blog, Dr. John Marshall suggests that clinicians invite their senators and congressmen to their hospitals to get a first-hand view of what needs fixing in the US healthcare system. 2/2/10 Free View In iTunes
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Make Your Practice Successful Despite Today's Challenges: How to Get More Revenue From Accounts Receivable A practice management expert tells doctors how to make sure doctors collect for all the services and medical care they provide. 1/27/10 Free View In iTunes
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Make Your Practice Successful Despite Today's Challenges: Join, Merge, or Sell Your Practice to a Hospital? A practice management expert tells doctors how to decide whether they should stay in their small practice or join, merge, or sell the practice to a hospital. 1/27/10 Free View In iTunes
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Make Your Practice Successful Despite Today's Challenges: How to Compete With Retail and Minute Clinics A practice management expert tells doctors how to keep patients from switching to the convenient drug store clinics for their medical care. 1/27/10 Free View In iTunes
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Cognitive Cardiologists vs Interventionalist -- The Reimbursement War. Where Should the Cut Come From? Henry Black, MD, discusses the current conflict in reimbursement between proceduralists and cognitive physicians and talks about the history behind it. 1/13/10 Free View In iTunes
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Will the Recent CMS Ruling About Medical Consultation Change Medical Practices? In this video blog, Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, wonders whether recent billing decisions will affect clinical care and the role of the consulting physician -- no longer the doctor's doctor? 1/4/10 Free View In iTunes
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Implementation Science -- Putting Good Ideas Into Practice In this video blog, Robert Morrow, MD, hopes that you get involved in projects that are designed to improve practice and revolutionize continuing medical education. 12/30/09 Free View In iTunes
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The Cuban Medical System -- More With Less In this video blog, Robert Morrow, MD, reports on his trip to Cuba and tells us why observing its healthcare system "made him sad." 12/15/09 Free View In iTunes
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Medscape One-on-One: Rapidly Unfolding Health Information Technology In the first in a new one-on-one series, Dr. Eli Adashi and Dr. Ashish Jha discuss health information technology -- what it means for both inpatient and outpatient physicians. 12/2/09 Free View In iTunes
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Buzz Words Surrounding Healthcare Reform Guaranteed issue, community rating, and individual mandate: What do these terms mean in the context of healthcare reform? What do they mean for you? David M. Brown, MD, explains in this video blog. 11/30/09 Free View In iTunes
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CDC Commentary: 2009 H1N1: Who Should Receive Antiviral Therapy? In this video blog, Anthony Fiore, MD, MPH, offers guidance on which patients are at highest risk for H1N1 influenza and when to prescribe antiviral therapy. 11/30/09 Free View In iTunes
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The Medscape Cancer Survivorship Survey In his latest video blog, Dr. Maurie Markman encourages viewers to participate in the Medscape survey for healthcare providers that discusses cancer survivor care. 11/12/09 Free View In iTunes
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Will There Ever Be a Big Brown Ribbon Outside the White House? In his latest video blog, Dr. John Marshall questions why the pink ribbon/breast cancer awareness promotion attracts more publicity than any other disease campaign. 11/5/09 Free View In iTunes
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The Impact of CME Continuing medical education (CME) serves to improve the quality of medical care. Expert faculty Drs. Harrington, Blumenthal, Gibson and Young discuss the role of CME in contemporary medicine, the evolution and impact of e-CME in the medical community and the future of CME and its financial support. 10/13/09 Free View In iTunes
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The Value of Final Exams In his latest video blog, Dr. John Marshall compares the work involved in writing successful grant proposals to the preparations necessary for final exams. 10/8/09 Free View In iTunes
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10% of US Adults With Non-Dialysis-Dependent CKD Are Uninsured In this video blog, Jeffrey Berns, MD, of UPenn School of Medicine, considers the impact of healthcare reform on the large group of uninsured patients with early-stage CKD. 9/30/09 Free View In iTunes
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ACR's Clinical Registry: What Can It Do for You? Dr. Elizabeth Tindall discusses the benefits of the American College of Rheumatology’s new online data management tool in her latest video blog. 9/30/09 Free View In iTunes
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CMS Proposed Rules for Bundling for ESRD Patients In this video blog, Jeffrey Berns, MD, of UPenn School of Medicine, discusses new proposed rules for dialysis payment, including bundling for oral drugs related to ESRD care. 9/25/09 Free View In iTunes
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What Do Clinicians Want From Healthcare Reform? In this video blog, David M. Brown, MD, makes 2 practical suggestions to healthcare reformers so that physicians might focus more on the patient and less on the insurance. 8/6/09 Free View In iTunes
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Big Practice, Small Practice, Part 3: A Solution to the Primary Care Conundrum -- Distribute, Don't Integrate Networked providers, regulatory relief, and reining in of overbearing health plans are among the ingredients in this recipe for relieving the strain on primary care practices. 8/6/09 Free View In iTunes
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Send in Your Cards and Emails. We Have to Solve the Healthcare Crisis Ourselves. Henry Black, MD, has his own thoughts on the public- vs private-payer options and how far any organization should go in dictating treatments. 8/4/09 Free View In iTunes
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Big Practice, Small Practice, Part 2: Can the Medical Home Accommodate the Small Practice? Will the Patient-Centered Medical Home end up being an office tower? 7/30/09 Free View In iTunes
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Big Practice, Small Practice, Part 1: What's Behind the Economics in Primary Care? This first part of a three-part series describes some of the reimbursement issues affecting the size of primary care practices, and why economy of scale may not apply in primary care. 7/16/09 Free View In iTunes

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