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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 [...]

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…and meet in the flesh all the fabulous people that I’ve come to know so well in the medblogosphere…
But don’t know if I would be able to
Well, I’ve developed a Zen-like attitude
It will happen if it’s destined to happen
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…in four parts, from Paul Levy’s blog.
It is, says Paul, “From a friend of a friend,” and it starts thus…

My son is sleeping right now…had a rough weekend - his blood pressure dropped, his blood count was decreasing, and he had chest and neck pain. The clinical team adjusted his meds, gave him a unit [...]

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…and how we radiologists make a living! (via GruntDoc)

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via The Trial of a WhiteCoat – Part 14.

The radiologist that read the film had a habit of going to the surgeons the following day and asking them what they had found. He would open up a blank report so that it looked as if it was dictated at the time of the exam, but [...]