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Changing care (for Addison patients)
This post is inspired by the theme for this weeks Grand Rounds at PalliMed, a Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog: “Changing Goals of Care”. According to Christian Sinclair, M.D. of Pallimed: It can...
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The importance of early intervention in Addisonian crises
In a previous post entitled “changing care for addison patients“ (see here), I mentioned that Addison’s disease is often misdiagnosed and Addison crises not adequately dealth with. “I’m by no means an...
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Invisible Chronic Illness: Addison’s Disease
This week the Grand Round will be hosted by Invisible Illness Week, a blog dedicated to the National Invisible Ilness Week, which runs September 14 -20, 2009. The purpose: National Invisible Chronic...
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Grey Literature: Time to make it systematic
Guest author: Shamsha Damani (@shamsha) Grey literature is a term I first encountered in library school; I remember dubbing it “the-wild-goose-chase search” because it is time consuming, totally...
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Visualization of Paradoxes behind US Health Care
This video nicely explains the paradoxes behind the health care in US: why the US spends more to Health Care, but doesn’t make people healthier (but instead -some- wealthier). It vividly shows why...
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NLM’s PillBox, a new pill identification system
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) not only launched a redesigned PubMed interface, but also another service (though still in beta): Pillbox beta for “rapid identification and reliable information....
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Health Care Haikus
Dr Rob Lamberts of Musings of a Distractible Mind is holding a “Health Care Haiku Contest“. The actual contest is at his Facebook page. Inspired by the beautiful haiku of Dr. Ramona Bates of Suture for...
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Twitter Lists of Medical and other Scientific Journals
In the previous two posts (“Biomedical Journals on Twitter” and List(s) of Tweeting Journals: Your Votes Please!) I introduced the Google-spreadsheet of (Bio-)medical Journals, manually compiled by the...
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Role of Consumer Networks in Evidence Based Health Information
Guest author: Janet Wale member of the Cochrane Consumer Network People are still struggling with evidence or modern medicine clinicians, patients, health consumers, carers and the public alike. Part...
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My Little Golden Llama
Doctor Rob send me A little golden Llama Prestigious Price I did not earn it by spitting acid musings* Just wrote this haiku: Dark when he leaves home, Dark when he returns from work. Resident Life.**...
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The 2009 Medical Weblog Awards: it is time to nominate your favorite blogs
The 2009 Medical Weblog Awards are here again! MedGadget is asking for nominations for the best of medical blogs. This is the sixth year of the competition and these awards are designed to showcase...
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Health Tweeder. A Neat Visual Tool… But is it Useful?
First seen on ScienceRoll (February 1st) and later throughout the Twitterverse & Blogosphere: Health Tweeder (http://www.pixelsandpills.com/tweeder/), a tool launched by Pixels and Pills. Health...
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Health Care Reform 2010- Obama, USA, Bill, Dutch, Plan, Doctors, Letterman,...
“I do believe the only way we can end all preventable deaths and the suffering of millions is to provide decent health care to all.” Hilary Benn, 2006 ——————— The next Grand Rounds will be hosted by...
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Friday Foolery #31 Waving goodbye… (or not?)
WHEN THE SHIP SANK… (it was August 4th, I remember I was at home multitasking (twittering, blogging, mailing, scratching my back, playing patience, humming a tune and looking out of the window) WHEN.....
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Expert Curators, WisdomCards & The True Wisdom of @organizedwisdom
Note added 2010-11-12: Anyone who wishes to can now email info@organizedwisdom.com to let his/her profile as expert curator removed from the site of Organized Wisdom (see comments by Unity Stoakes,...
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Medical Black Humor, that is Neither Funny nor Appropriate.
Last week, I happened to see this Facebook post of the The Medical Registrar where she offends a GP, Anne Marie Cunningham*, who wrote a critical post about black medical humor at her blog “Wishful...
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