Excessive cash flow? Full-functioning speech recognition? Here are some blog topic ideas that might not see the light of day.
I rarely write just one of these blogs at a time. Generally, two or three will develop in parallel. Sometimes, a completed entry will seem less than timely (for instance, a happy piece about this unusually mild winter written right before the current frigid week in my neck of the woods), and I'll shelve it until circumstances are more opportune.
Some seem guaranteed to eternal mothballing, however, and one does hope that effort spent on such pursuits will not turn out to be entirely wasted. At the very least, I thought I might share some of their titles:
Finding Uses for Your Practice's Excess Cash Flow
Voice Recognition: Now it's Flawless
10 New Indications for Pneumoencephalograms
Regulation - We Need More!
Asking for More Clinical History is a Sign of Weakness
Cooking with Barium: My Grandmother's Best Recipes
Insufficient Radiation - what You Can Do to Increase Dosage
Fun Applications of the Fourier Transform
Excessive Influence: Why DC Needs to Stop Listening to Doctors About Fixing Health Care
How Organized Crime Can Help Your Practice Get Ahead
Only Crybabies Want Tort Reform
One Eye Per Patient: How to Double Your Productivity
Dictating in Iambic Pentameter
Stark, Schmark: How to Self-refer Like a Champ
Why "Google Translate" Handles Informed Consent Just as Well as an Interpreter
8 Wasted Hours: You Should be Working More and Sleeping Less
Fun Things to Throw into the MRI Suite
Maintaining Certification and Licensure is Too Darned Easy
Throw 'Em Under the Bus: How to Scuttle Competitors' Careers via Peer Review
A List of Diagnoses from Famous Patients I Have Imaged - Come Get Me, HIPAA!
Considering Breast- and Lesion-Level Assessments with Mammography AI: What New Research Reveals
June 27th 2025While there was a decline of AUC for mammography AI software from breast-level assessments to lesion-level evaluation, the authors of a new study, involving 1,200 women, found that AI offered over a seven percent higher AUC for lesion-level interpretation in comparison to unassisted expert readers.
SNMMI: Can 18F-Fluciclovine PET/CT Bolster Detection of PCa Recurrence in the Prostate Bed?
June 24th 2025In an ongoing prospective study of patients with biochemical recurrence of PCa and an initial negative PSMA PET/CT, preliminary findings revealed positive 18F-fluciclovine PET/CT scans in over 54 percent of the cohort, according to a recent poster presentation at the SNMMI conference.