Medscape got in trouble for a series of continuing medical education courses sponsored by Philip Morris to the tune of $2.9 million. Their reaction was pretty fast. This isn't an article castigating Medscape, but more about stories and narratives in marketing. At this point, commercial CME sponsorship, primarily by device and pharmaceutical companies, is down to about 28% of accredited CME. Twenty years ago, it was above 50%. Pfizer, for instance, usually provides around $100 million a year in educational grants.
Challenger used to give live ethics lectures to residents about the impact of marketing and advertising on physician audiences. We’d open by asking a series of questions about whether a resident's decisions could be influenced by marketing. In the time we did it, every single resident avowed that they were way too smart to be swayed by marketing techniques🙂.
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Evidence of Telehealth Effectiveness Versus In-Person Care ‘Weak’It’s an interesting choice of headlines by the mHealth Intelligence publication. A meta-study analysis of 77 different studies of telehealth outcomes compared to in-person outcomes generally found no difference in outcomes between telemedicine and in-person care for the areas studied. The critique is over study sizes, small samples, and sample bias. It’s a reasonable complaint and question, given the stakes of pushing for cross-state licensure for telehealth and other issues that deal directly with local practice and hospital incomes. But while the studies' correlation to outcomes may be ‘weak,’ they also didn’t show any decline in patient care quality with telemedicine. Evidence of Telehealth Effectiveness Versus In-Person Care ‘Weak’ - mHealth Intelligence Florida Plastic Surgeon Benjamin Brown Arrested in Death of WifeThis chain of events is almost unexplainable. The entire sequence is so far out you’d have to read it for yourself. But if you’re looking for a long list of “things not to do in a surgery,” then here you go. 10:1 he tries to blame the new surgical assistant... Florida Plastic Surgeon Benjamin Brown Arrested in Death of Wife |