American Medical Association Fails According to Physicians

A New Doctors’ Survey Says AMA Fails on Health Reform, New Voice Needed. Seventy-Seven Percent of Doctors Surveyed say AMA No Longer Represents Their Views.

Almost 18 months after President Obama signed healthcare reform into law, America’s physicians have not forgiven the American Medical Association for supporting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a new survey released by Jackson & Coker, a division of Jackson Healthcare.

Post Mortem CT instead of Autopsy??

Sorry everyone its been so long since i've posted.  I've just been super busy lately with starting an MBA program for physicians. So...expect to see some posts involving medicine and business now...Anyway, this caught my attention since I'm a pathologist and have done plenty of autopsies (thank God I don't do them anymore).  Hope ya'll enjoy!!!!


Several research groups champion the potential for postmortem CT (PMCT) to replace the invasive postmortem (PM), however, many questions still remain. Perhaps the two most important questions are whether PMCT can provide the same level of information as an invasive PM autopsy?  Arguably more important is the question, can it meet the needs of the end users of the PM report.  The authors of a recent study show that PMCT is good at providing accurate causes of death and that the interpretation of cases is not significantly altered by the absence of histology or actualy autopsy. The authors show that in straightforward trauma deaths such as road traffic incidents, there exists the potential for the replacement of the invasive PM by PMCT examination. However, as yet, PMCT cannot provide all of the information that is expected by the criminal justice system in complex forensic cases.


So needless to say post mortem CT may have a role in certain "autopsies" in the future.