Archive for August 18th, 2006

Medicine in the age of the ‘War on Terror.’

2 Comments Published by Vijay August 18th, 2006 in Medical Journals, Medical blogs, Medicine, NEJM, Nebulous Views

This not about Guantánamo Bay, Afghanistan or Iraq. But it typifies the changed times that we now live in.
I read this post in Dr. Sumer’s blog about a man who was detained at Orlando airport because the radioiodine that he was administered for the treatment of thyrotoxicosis triggered the airport’s alarm.
I was reminded of a [...]

Re. Passing of a Legend.

0 Comments Published by Vijay August 18th, 2006 in Medical blogs, Random Noise

I read this eulogy for Susan Butcher in Tundra Medicine Dreams a few days ago.
She was featured in an article about the Iditarod in today’s Young World section of ‘The Hindu.’