by David Hilden, MD MPH | Dec 23, 2016 | Ethics and philosophy, Health in the News, Humanities and Medicine, Medical research
Quick, picture in your head a highly competent physician. What does that person look like? Does your doctor image look like this? Or like this? For the record and the recognition, that’s Dr. Gibson-Hill, a doctor in Bristol, England. You probably know the guy...
by David Hilden, MD MPH | Nov 5, 2016 | Dr. Hilden's reflections, Health in the News, Medical Education
I was reading the paper this morning over my tea and crumpets when this headline caught my attention: “First-year doctors would be allowed to work 24-hour shifts under new rules” Now there’s a topic near to my heart, so I decided without much...
by David Hilden, MD MPH | Sep 12, 2016 | Dr. Hilden's reflections, Health in the News, Public Health, Tips from Healthy Matters radio broadcast
A remembrance: Fifteen years ago today at around 8:00 Minneapolis time, I was in the Intensive Care Unit at HCMC. I was a medical resident on that day doing my rotation in Nephrology and was visiting a critically-ill patient in the ICU with really bad kidney...
by David Hilden, MD MPH | Jun 18, 2016 | Cancer, Diabetes, Diet and exercise, Health and wellness, Health in the News
OK, before I say one thing about this topic, we need to set the mood by playing this very short audio clip. Make sure the sound is turned up on your computer or mobile device and click the “play” arrow. This is going to be epic: Hallelujah!...
by David Hilden, MD MPH | Apr 17, 2016 | Cancer, Cardiology, Health in the News, Medical research
There was a big development in health care news this week. The buzz is all about the latest guidelines on aspirin since our friends at the US Preventive Services Task Force updated the recommendations. It came out in the Annals of Internal Medicine just this week on...
by David Hilden, MD MPH | Mar 11, 2016 | HCMC, Health in the News, Medical research, Traumatic Brain Injury
There’s big news from HCMC this week. Many know that HCMC is the largest provider of TBI care in the state of Minnesota. But many don’t know that we are also a major research institution and in no area is this more true than TBI. The big news is that our...
