Archive for November, 2008
scanman speaks: Episode 6 - My take on the recent events in Mumbai
3 Comments Published by Vijay November 27th, 2008 in Friends, Life in India, Medical blogs, New Media, News, Podcast, Social Commentary, twitterThe sixth episode of my increasingly frequent podcast is up at scan man speaks, my dedicated podcast blog.
You can listen to it there or here by clicking play on the linked title below or subscribe via iTunes to download and listen in your own audio player (see my podcast blog’s sidebar for instructions to subscribe [...]
Several bloggers including some of my friends in the medical blogosphere are engaged in a blog rally (see the explanatory footnote in this post by Paul Levy), simultaneously posting the item below to encourage conversation about a topic that is often avoided but needs to be addressed in every family:
We make choices throughout our lives [...]
Dr. Val gets the lowdown on Dual Source CT
1 Comment Published by Vijay November 25th, 2008 in CT, Friends, Life in India, Medical blogs, Medicine, Radiology, TechnologyMy friend Dr. Val Jones, the President and CEO of Better Health, LLC presents the facts on Dual Source CT in her latest blog post….
Better Health » New CT Scanner Can Take An Image Of The Entire Body In Under 5 Seconds.
I really like new technology, especially when it offers a very obvious advantage for [...]
Blogs & Gender
1 Comment Published by Vijay November 24th, 2008 in Blogging, Friends, Medical blogs, SchmoozeAccording to Gruntdoc “there is some gender disorder elsewhere in the medblogosphere.”
Well, NOT here
79% is good enough. There’s enough room left over for my “inner anima” howsoever big it be
(I owe a big thank you to Theresa for telling me that I may have an inner anima)
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scanman speaks: Episode 5 - Tamil Nadu as described by a western traveller
0 Comments Published by Vijay November 23rd, 2008 in Life in India, PodcastThe fifth episode of my infrequent podcast is up at scan man speaks, my dedicated podcast blog.
You can listen to it there or here by clicking play on the linked title below or subscribe via iTunes to download and listen in your own audio player (see my podcast blog’s sidebar for instructions to subscribe in [...]
I’m A Thinker
4 Comments Published by Vijay November 23rd, 2008 in Friends, Medical blogs, Other Bloggers, SchmoozeHat tip to this tweet from my friend Ramona.
And I agree with WhiteCoat that Typealyzer seems pretty accurate for the same reasons that he mentions and not just because it said good things about me
INTP - The Thinkers
The logical and analytical type. They are especialy attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and [...]
scanman speaks: Episode 4 - Serendipity & Zemblanity
4 Comments Published by Vijay November 16th, 2008 in Life in India, Personal, PodcastThe fourth episode of my infrequent podcast is up at scan man speaks, my dedicated podcast blog.
You can listen to it there or here by clicking play on the linked title below or subscribe via iTunes to download and listen in your own audio player (see my podcast blog’s sidebar for instructions to subscribe in [...]
Discharging Firearms & Flying Objects
3 Comments Published by Vijay November 14th, 2008 in MRI, News, Radiology Journals, Weird StuffIf you thought MRI scanners that explode are scary, what follows may be even more terrifying (and educative)…
From the May 2002 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Spontaneous Discharge of a Firearm in an MR Imaging Environment
An incident recently occurred at an outpatient imaging center in western New York State, in which a firearm spontaneously [...]













