The blue glove medical record
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From a close friend, about an experience in another hospital:
So, Mom is taken to the ED over the weekend for treatment of an infection.
On one side of the...
Memorable Quotes from Twitter
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Memorable quotes and useful links from my Twitter account:
[image: Biz Stone]*biz*
Time to go to the eye doctor -- someone has to read all these tweets!ab...
Show 134 Wrap-up
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Show 134 was a "Saturday Night with Dr. A" show. I talked about just a few
medical/health related news stories. Then, I went into some "not so serious"
n...
Sleepwalking
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Today the NY Times printed a piece pokes fun at, and highlights the dangers
of, the new habit of texting-while-walking:
This summer, the American College o...
What are the long-term consequences ...?
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As you may have noticed, in the second half of 2008 we had a minor whoopsie in the banking sector — what is laughingly known as a "liquidity crisis". N...
Coming to Terms with a Potentially Fatal Disease
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The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published a
case about a 66 year-old man with heart disease and an enlarging abdominal
aort...
Plugging away at a thesis
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I have continued to have a lot of work to do on my PhD thesis, which is
finally at revision stage. I have written a post on my personal blog
explaining in ...
Dude Fest!
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I'm attending a complete dude fest, also known as the annual American
Urological Association (AUA) meeting. It's held in the illustrious city of
Chicago th...
Who Needs the Flu Vaccine?
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Based on global surveillance of influenza strains, all 3 strains in the 2008
to 2009 influenza vaccines are different from the 2007 to 2008 vaccine
strains...
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