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Here's a random brain fart, why don't we just renamed vaccines as "peptides" to improve compliance?

I wish I had a stool and I am as tall and lanky as Gianmarco Soresi to explain but anyway. Technically speaking, vaccines are peptides...

Maine OB/gyn taking a page from Florida surgeon: 40F has majority of her bladder removed instead of ovarian cyst

Yikes. Looks like the hospital went bankrupt and the surgeon moved to Alaska. Any urologists want to comment on healthy bladder tissue appearance vs an...

Downcoding is becoming a crisis

It's been posted a few times, but BCBS IL, TX, New Mexico, Montana and Oklahoma (all HCSC companies) have instituted an automatic downcoding policy whereby...

Non physician "patient advocate" introducing themselves as doctor in a clinical setting

Hoping to get other's input on a strange situation I'm having to navigate through. Long story short, I have a really sick patient who is...