April 17, 2026

AI Scribes Lag Clinicians on Note Quality

A VHA study across 11 vendors finds AI-generated primary care notes score lower than clinician-written notes, with the largest deficits in thoroughness, organization, and usefulness

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April 17, 2026

FURL vs Mini-PCNL in 2 to 3 cm Stones

Review reports comparable stone-free rates with suction-assisted ureteroscopy

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April 17, 2026

Lactate–Albumin Ratio Tied to TBI Mortality

Admission biomarker showed prognostic value alongside clinical scoring systems in pediatric intensive care

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April 16, 2026

Mandatory Training Modules Deserve a Harder Look

A JAMA Viewpoint argues that 4 million physician-hours spent on compliance modules each year warrants institutional reassessment.

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April 13, 2026

AI Falls Short on Differential Dx

New PrIME-LLM benchmark shows strong diagnostic accuracy but persistent gaps in clinical reasoning across 21 large language models

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April 10, 2026

Grill Brush Bristle Injuries Continue to Rise

Most patients were treated and released, with the oropharynx the most common injury site

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April 09, 2026

Medical Oddities: Tattoos and Teeth Share Work Struggles

From unexpected workplace parallels to kitchen-counter experiments and a few clinical twists, this set of stories covered more ground than your average shift.

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April 06, 2026

The Loan Cap That Could Shrink the Doctor Pipeline

New federal limits on medical school borrowing may quietly reshape who becomes a physician—and where they practice.

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April 03, 2026

Retrorectal Surgery Linked to Low Recurrence

A 25-year tertiary center cohort reports high recurrence-free survival following surgery and suggests preoperative biopsy should be used selectively.

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April 01, 2026

Radiologists Tested on AI X-Rays

Study found synthetic radiographs were often difficult to distinguish from real images, with physicians identifying them correctly about 75% of the time.

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