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You know, I am hearing a lot about March Madness from my American friends on twitter and facebook. I am not knowing what that really means, but I am thinking it must have something to do with their healthcare reform bill which I am growing sick of hearing about. So I was thinking I will [...]

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Just to note the passing of four years of existence of this blog
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I really ought to put more effort into keeping this lively following the example of friends who have recently seen the light and friends who have been leading lights in the medical blogging world
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From Blogs:
Dr. Bruce Campbell, a Professor of ENT Surgery, known informally among medical bloggers as Headmirror, doesn’t think it’s a good idea to nap in the operating room and talks about the difficulty that most of us have leaving work behind even when we take a break.  Bruce, is the “Blogging Surgeon” on WUWM - [...]

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The next edition
SurgeXperiences 310
will be hosted by me in this blog on November 15, 2009.
Deadline for submissions is midnight on Friday, November 13.
Please send in your submissions early via this form.
SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article [...]

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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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In a series of three short [...]

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Note: This post is related to the previous post requesting support for the NCHRH bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. Again, I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in all the other myriad ways [...]

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via Movin’ Meat: AMS.

I haven’t looked at the numbers lately, but Altered Mental Status, or AMS, must be in the top ten, if not the top five most common ER presentations. AMS, as a triage complaint, is like a bizarre little birthday present for an ER doc. You just don’t know what you’re [...]

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via The ultrasound that saved a baby girl’s life - guest post by Dr Linda M. Lee at KevinMD.com. Originally posted at Dr. Linda’s Life Lessons
“We already have two girls at home and we want a son. We have too many girls.” My eyes welled with tears as I thought of the fate of [...]