As readers know, the unifying theme of this blog is medical quality. Indeed, the role of a whistleblower should be to raise the performance level of a profession or organization. One need only scan this blog's category list for evidence of the blog's purpose. Feel free to sample a post or two. The medical procedure that is fundamental to the practice of gastroenterology is colonoscopy. I have performed north of 50,000 of these procedures on some very lucky inhabitants of northeast Ohio. This will be my professional legacy, not quite a true gift to humanity such as music, art or literature. I’ve been in practice long enough that there are patients whom I’ve performed more than 10 colonoscopies on. Patients prefer to remain with a doctor whom they are comfortable with. Long term relationships with patients is one of the joys of medicine. I also routinely perform colonoscopies on patients whom I have not met previously. They are ref...
MD Whistleblower presents vignettes and commentaries on the medical profession. We peek 'behind the medical curtain' and deliver candor and controversy in every post.