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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 [...]

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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 [...]

My good friend Dr. Ramona Bates, plastic surgeon and quilter extraordinaire from Little Rock, AR, is the host of the latest edition of SurgeXperiences, the blog carnival of all things surgical.
She has done a great job (as usual) with posts that rival the weekly Medical Grand Rounds.
Suture for a Living: SurgeXperiences 208.

Welcome to the latest [...]

From Shadowfax

Read the rest of the story at Shadowfax’s blog…
Movin’ Meat: Something you don’t see every day.
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

Movin’ Meat: Speak out now.

In their continuing war against women’s reproductive rights, HHS Secretary Leavitt has proposed a new federal regulation which would allow healthcare providers to refuse to provide any service they deem would violate their personal values.
Now let’s be clear: this is not about abortion. There already exist in many other [...]

Actually, she’s not a new medblogger.
Jen seems to have been blogging for over two years now without being ‘discovered’ by the regulars in the med-blogging world. Or, that is what I inferred from her blogroll.
And Then Sum by Jen.

I’m a Christian mom of three boys, and I’m a brand new doctor. So, I basically write [...]

… so says Tim, a new blogger that I discovered today. A med student / intern applying to ENT residency programs and hoping/waiting to match in March ‘09.
Cami & Tim: Rockin’ The Free World: Radiology Is So Boring!.

So I am on a two week radiology stint right now. Let me educate a few of [...]

Bidding a warm welcome to my friend & colleague George Paul, a maxillofacial surgeon from Salem, to the wonderful world of blogging. He’s a dentist/maxillofacial surgeon/lawyer/ethicist/writer/talker and all-round-nice-guy with a great sense of humour. You don’t have to take my word, just read his introductory post and you will agree.
Maxfax: Strange Names, Strange Places, Strange [...]