Unnecessary Pre-operative testing

Medical Care is often not enough. Doulas are bringing an ancient practice back to modern dying—one family at a time. 

Super Bowl medical ads use celebrity endorsements and fear tactics to promote disease screening - not primarily for public health, but to expand the patient pool for new, expensive treatments. 

Radiation and hormone therapy come with side effects, and while many people are willing to go through whatever it takes to make sure breast cancer is well and truly gone, a new study has shown there may be an easier way. 

We take a Pre-operative study from the Annals of Surgery and talk about perioperative risk management for patients with low serum creatinine. 

In this episode, board-certified plastic surgeon, Zol Kryger, enlightens us about the frighteningly loose laws regulating the industry of plastic surgery, paving the way for a majority of cosmetic procedures being performed by doctors that are not board-certified plastic surge ...

Dr. Rajesh Rao discusses the increasing cost and lack of Medicare reimbursement of vitrectomy surgery with Dr. Shriji Patel from his 2021 Ophthalmology Retina article, "Cost Analysis of Routi ...