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I’m very late. Posting this on the eve of Deepavali.
This is a post on Fireworks Safety by my friend Ramona. She has posted this twice on her blog, before the July 4th American Independence Day for the past two years.
Very relevant for us in India at this time of the year.
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JSE Booth (The Scut Report) posted a DSA image of a critical Carotid stenosis yesterday.
Coincidentally, I had a patient for Carotid arterial Doppler ultrasonography yesterday who had similar critical Internal Carotid stenoses on both sides. Here are the pictures.
Colour Doppler US image of the right Common Carotid arterial bifurcation with a large eccentric fibrofatty plaque. [...]

H/T: The Happy Hospitalist
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bookofjoe: British Army Challenger 2 Tank v Range Rover Sport: ‘Top Gear’ Throwdown.
As Joe, the ‘world’s most popular blogging anesthesiologist‘ says, “That’s one impressive off-road car”.

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Found this through Kevin, MD.
Graham Walker, former medical student and freshly graduated doctor and author of the blog OVER!MY!MED!BODY!, delivers the Commencement Address (you can read the text of his speech at his blog) to the 2008 graduating class of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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I delivered the address at my medical college graduation day [...]

Dr. Peng Hui Lee, a Consultant Radiologist in the NHS, and author of the blog MidEssexRay, mentioned an old post of mine in his blog yesterday. The post in question, titled ‘Why does a CT scan cost so much in the USA?‘ is the one with the most comments on my blog. The comments, twenty-six [...]

Ian Furst, author of the blog Wait Time & Delayed Care has an interesting post on India’s Health Care System.

India’s healthcare system is undergoing dramatic changes that parallel its’ odd emergence as a capital market. Where Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and more recently China have emerged from rural societies into modern economies through industrialization, urbanization [...]

Happy Hospitalist hosts this week’s edition of Grand Rounds, the medical blog carnival.
Grand Rounds Is Here, Turn Off Your Dang Cell Phone

Welcome one and all to my very first Grand Rounds. I was handed Volume 4 Number 37 by the one and only Nicholas Genes of Blogborygmi fame. Thank you Nick for this opportunity. [...]