Senior attendings like to quip that the medical students seem to be getting younger every year. They’re not. But the attendings on the wards of American teaching hospitals actually have gotten younger. At UCSF Medical Center, for example, about 90% of our ward attending-months are now staffed by hospitalists, about half of them physicians in [...]
Archive | September, 2012
In Today’s JAMA: Abraham Verghese and I Discuss the Changing World of Ward Attendings
by Bob Wachter on September 11, 2012 in Health Policy, Hospital Care, Hospitalists/Hospital Medicine, Medical Education/Academia
Putting the “A” Back in SOAP Notes: Time to Tackle An Epic Problem
by Bob Wachter on September 3, 2012 in Diagnosis/Clinical Reasoning, Hospital Care, Information Technology, Medical Education/Academia
A colleague recently sent me a remarkable video – of Professor Lawrence Weed giving Medical Grand Rounds at Emory University in 1971. It’s fun to watch for many reasons: the packed audience composed mostly of white men in white jackets and narrow ties, the grainy black and white images a nostalgic reminder of Life Before [...]
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The Dangers of Curbside Consults… and Why We Need Them
April 29, 2013
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When I Was In the Final Four
April 5, 2013
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Measuring the Quality of Doctors and Hospitals: When Is Good Enough, Good Enough?
April 1, 2013
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HIT Job: How the New York Times Blew it on Healthcare IT
February 26, 2013
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