Useful Medical Articles

I too the liberty of using a link Ferret provided to start a thread. Lets keep adding too it.

25%

Hospitalized patients who are harmed by medical errors

Source: New England Journal of Medicine
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444620104578008263334441352.html
By MARTY MAKARY

Doctors absorb an unspoken rule: to overlook the mistakes of our colleagues.'

"Dr. Hodad":
"It stands for Hands of Death and Destruction."

PMC
US National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/?filter=t3&titles=current&search=journals

National Center for Biotechnology Information
Search termSearch database

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

CDC
Link: http://www.cdc.gov/

Sam, When you get time can you post some info you think is relevant to the area or all of Mexico.

Thank you.

Maybe Bob or Bob can make a sticky if we as a group can keep this thread clean and updated.

Thank You!

Legal drugs, deadly outcomes

Times staff writers Hailey Branson-Potts and Anh Do contributed to this report.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/prescription/la-me-prescription-deaths-20121111-html,0,2363903.htmlstory


Bill aims to tighten restrictions on painkiller hydrocodone

BY: scott.glover@latimes.com

lisa.girion@latimes.com

The proposed law would place medications containing hydrocodone in same category as OxyContin, another opiate-based painkiller so potent and addictive that it's sometimes referred to as synthetic heroin. If enacted, patients would be prescribed fewer hydrocodone pills at one time, and there would be more restrictions on refills. In addition, pharmacies would have to follow stricter procedures for handling and storing the drug.

The restrictions follow those recommended by a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel in January.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/20/local/la-me-rx-bill-20130321

One doctor, years of warning signs

Dr. Car­los Es­ti­andan wrote more pre­scrip­tions than the en­tire staffs of some hos­pit­als and took in more than $1 mil­lion a year, ac­cord­ing to court re­cords.

More than four years after the Med­ic­al Board of Cali­for­nia began in­vest­ig­at­ing Es­ti­andan, it per­suaded a judge to sus­pend his pre­scrib­ing priv­ileges. By then, eight of his pa­tients had died of over­doses or re­lated causes, ac­cord­ing to cor­on­ers’ re­cords.

Be­low is a look at how in­vest­ig­a­tions in­to his prac­tice un­fol­ded.
BY LISA GIRION AND SCOTT GLOVER
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/prescription/la-prescription-drugs-day-2-20121205,0,6999657.htmlstory?main=true

by Dr. Sam Thelin Yesterday at 1:18 am

I just found a link to this site, and it is full of animations of almost every possible surgery, condition, etc.

http://www.dnatube.com/