Medical blogs Archive


Note: This is a true incident. Though all characters in the story are anonymized, they are recognizable to the knowledgeable based on the events portrayed. That they have been anonymized reflects propriety rather than conformity to any hidebound traditions.

John Deer and Jane Doe are part of a small team of medical personnel doing voluntary work [...]


via Paul Levy’s blog post…


Here’s a great fellowship opportunity in biomedical imaging being offered by the Madrid-MIT M+Visión Consortium program. Applications are welcome from people of all nations, and with a variety of backgrounds. Here is an excerpt from the description:
With a focus on accelerating innovation in biomedical imaging, promoting translational research, and encouraging entrepreneurship, [...]


Shamelessly copied verbatim from this post by Chris Nickson of the LITFL team.

The ‘Ten Commandments of Emergency Radiology’ according to Touquet et al (1995):

Treat the patient, not the radiograph
Take a history and examination before ordering a radiograph
Request a radiograph only when necessary
Never look at a radiograph without seeing the patient, and never see a patient [...]


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 [...]


Just to note the passing of four years of existence of this blog

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


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 - [...]

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 [...]


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.

In a series of three short [...]