Internal medicine rotation
Half MD talks about his internal medicine rotation:
One of the frequent complaints about the internal medicine clerkship is that rounds take entirely too long. My own team would routinely spend about three hours going through a census of only 20 patients. Some of my classmates got thrown into groups which would take five hours every day to run through the list—and that’s after all of the pre-rounding has been completed, orders filed, test results analyzed, and patients reassured.
Of course, the time it takes for rounds would be dependent on how efficient the attending or resident was. Three to five hours for 20 patients sounds about right. At least it was for me 7 years ago when I was a resident.
I wonder if there is more urgency to rounding now, with the pressure that hospitals put on attendings to quickly turnover and discharge patients.

We have a new name: HairLossFight.com!
It's official, Morphollica.com has a new name, one that reflects what the site is about much more clearly.
How do we transition to a primary care-driven system?
Richard Reece has some ideas, and some obstacles that will be encountered along the way.

Never events
Buckeye Surgeon points to a naively written column supporting not paying for hospital "never" events.
There is plenty of nuance that is missing from article, and I'd like to refer you to WhiteCoat's excellent Reader Take on the issue a few months ago.

Interview with Dr. Robert M. Bernstein on hair transplantation
This is the debut of the HairLossFight.com Hair Loss Information Audio Show, featuring the esteemed Dr. Robert M. Bernstein. Dr. Bernstein goes into considerable detail when answering our questions on hair restoration surgery, follicular unit extraction, follicular unit transplantation, important considerations when deciding to have a transplant, hair cloning, female hair loss and much more.
Trusting pharmaceutical-backed studies
Word on how Merck marketed Vioxx throught clinical "studies". Lost of chatter on this topic recently. Roy Poses provides a good place to start:
This article appears to be the first to provide evidence that pharmaceutical companies may deliberately disguise marketing efforts as clinical research. This is a real achievement, since obviously the companies involved make every effort to hide what they are doing, and it only through discovery during litigation did the facts come out.
