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As an alum of Boston University Medical School, and having trained at Boston Medical Center, this is truly sad and disturbing news.
The so-called “Craigslist Killer,” who was the target of a national manhunt, is apparently a 22-year old medical student at Boston University:

A surgical procedure is truly a team effort.
Along with support staff, the patient outcome depends on how well the surgeon and the anesthesiologist work together.
Dr. T provides a fascinating account of the issues that she faces when behind the screen, and indeed, there is a spectrum of surgical personalities she has to deal with.

Here are some of the more interesting comments readers have left recently.
1. Manalive on quality measures:It is almost always a leap of faith to apply evidence-based guidelines to the frail elderly, to patients with many medical problems, to alcoholics, to the poorly insured — in short, to a large percentage of my practice. Accordingly, I [...]

Pinworms are those nasty little white worms that infest their slimy, tiny bodies into the intestines. I know, not a pleasant topic, but very real especially in children. Do not be surprised if you find that your child has a case of pinworms as 10 to 40 per cent of children get them.

Almost half of patients over the age of 65 use the Internet.
Contrast that with the percentage of doctors who use computers in their offices or in hospitals, which is a number hovering around 20 percent.

How dramatic.
But it’s also true. Stateside, we’re already dealing with the repercussions of restricting residents’ work to 80 hours per week or less.
The UK is going several steps further, but restricting all doctors to no more than 48-hours of work a week.

A simple, potentially cost-effective screening test to detect infant heart defects is rarely used in hospitals today.
Darshak Sanghavi, the chief of pediatric cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, is calling for a simple pulse oximetry test to screen infants for heart defects.