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Introducing scanmanitol…

Many thanks to Barbara The Medical Quack.
Medical Quackadryl - talk to your blogger to see if this right for you…
This is fun and just down right silly. Cedra, a clinical research organization created something for fun, so why not, now I have my own drug.  If you have nothing better to do for a [...]

This is not a post about the utility (or not) of doing a CT scan to diagnose acute appendicitis.
I came across this at Shadowfax’s blog. It’s a great story, which just happens to be about appendicitis & CT scan.
I recently cared for a young boy with abdominal pain. He was about six years old, and [...]

Blog friend GruntDoc hosts the 200th edition of Grand Rounds, the medical blog carnival:
I’m Honored to be the first Sixth Time Host, but more importantly to be the host of the 200th Edition of MedBlogs Grand Rounds.  Dr. Nick Genes deserves all the credit for starting (and maintaining) this wandering collection of links to the [...]

New Blogger..

We have a new blogger, a fellow dotor from Tamil Nadu.
OrthoDoc is an Orthopaedic Surgeon based in India.
He would still call himself a student. Learning is a process that continues throughout life for a student of Medicine. He hopes to express, discuss and learn more through this blog. His range of discussion will not [...]

Do I have an alcohol problem?
A question that I have been afraid of even thinking out loud.
Because I believe, as does Dr. Crippen, that the very fact that I am asking myself the question is proof that I believe there is a problem.
Dr. Crippen goes on in this excellent, thought-provoking post
If you are asking yourself [...]

Bloglines alerted me to a new post by Dr. Hebert a few days ago. I read a few lines and thinking that it was about Jazz and Gospel Music, something that I don't know anything about, I quit.
I came across the post again in Grand Rounds (hosted by Dr. iBear at Doc Around the Clock) [...]

Dr. Hebert has put in words - in his usual great style - what most of us doctors know is true, but hate to admit…
Something in the makeup of doctors makes them complainers….Certainly medicine is a tough line of work. But it pays pretty well, and it has definite benefits. It is about as independent [...]

So says Dr. Bob, who has had a really bad day (& half the night) at his office. Thanks to Windows XP and Bill Gates.
Read his post 'The Terrorists Will Have Won'.
And readers…if you are still using Windows,
Please, please switch..