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Note: Though this is a medical post that concerns hospital care in the USA, I believe the issues covered in these videos are universally applicable to hospitals and patients all over the world. I urge everyone, especially those visitors who are not from the USA to view the videos.
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Retained knife blade: an unusual cause for headache following massive alcohol intake. (via precordialthump, dublindoc & Mind Hacks. Emphases mine)

Massive alcohol intake usually resolves in a banal headache. We report a case of a patient presenting with acute alcohol intoxication in which the ensuing “hangover” was due to a knife blade deeply retained in the [...]

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via Bertalan Meskó at ScienceRoll: Swine Flu: Follow Online!.
As swine flu sparks global concern, we can follow the cases and the news online quite easily. Maybe swine flu will be the first global disease that we can really follow minute by minute online. I’m not even surprised there is a swine flu kit you can [...]

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via fnyc

[Both Images are from here & are linked there]
I guess this is not what it means to hit the nail on the head!
See more amazing radiographs (NO. They’re not x-rays!) and CT scans in this gallery.
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Whistleblower: A lost bid to control health costs: (via this tweet from Robbo* aka BiteTheDust)

Alexandria Cody went to the hospital on Christmas Eve with excruciating pain in her ribs. She and her husband, David, left the hospital stinging with frustration over their failed effort to control the costs of their care. The couple have been [...]

Meet my tweeps…
Arranged in chronological order from the first person that I (scanman on twitter) followed, Moof (she introduced me to twitter). Clicking on the individual profile pictures takes you to the corresponding tweeter’s timeline…

Get your twitter mosaic here.
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…pseudosecular-liberal credentials are, I bet they aren’t as strong or as pseudo as those of NDTV.
Shame on NDTV, for forcing a lone blogger to grovel in abject surrender!
Shame!!
DesiPundit: Patrix - Blogger Silenced by NDTV:

Terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Media reports. Bloggers blog. Twitterers tweet. People don’t like media’s coverage. Bloggers opine and report on media’s role. [...]

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All the medical bloggers who are on twitter know of the “Twitter Favourites” series posted by Ves Dimov (AllergyNotes on twitter).
The following conversation occurred on twitter. Spread over more than twenty hours and spanning half the globe,  the conversation involves an American physician, an Indian radiologist (me), two American nurses (one of whom is also [...]