http://www.catscanman.net/blog random noise, nebulous views & artifacts Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:05:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here I am pushing the limits of my technical abilities, modest as they are, exploring yet another frontier. l apologize in advance for typos and formatting errors, which l hope will be minimal. I am writing this post on my mobile phone, while on my way out of town. l am ... http://www.catscanman.net/blog/2008/08/mobile-blogging/ Introducing scanmanitol... Many thanks to Barbara The Medical Quack. Medical Quackadryl - talk to your blogger to see if this right for you... This is fun and just down right silly. Cedra, a clinical research organization created something for fun, so why not, now I have my own drug.  If you have nothing ... http://www.catscanman.net/blog/2008/08/scanmanitol/ Happy 61st Independence Day India [Image Credit] http://www.catscanman.net/blog/2008/08/happy-independence-day/ Abortion is "something that has fascinated me since my days in medical college." That is a direct quote from one of my first serious posts after I started this blog. In that post I had declared; "To us in India, abortion is almost a non-issue." In a related post a few ... http://www.catscanman.net/blog/2008/08/abortion-debate-begins-in-india/ First I must confess to some shameless plagiarism. The title of this post is an blatant rip off from my friend Dr. A, who used the phrase in a recent post in his blog**. [Update: Kevin, MD likes the name, now it's sure to become more popular] Many thanks to Dr. ... http://www.catscanman.net/blog/2008/07/new-media-medicine/ 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 ... http://www.catscanman.net/blog/2008/07/carotid-stenosis/ Ramona posted this after seeing it on Purplesque's blog. I feel compelled to do this now. So here goes.... “The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.” 1) Bold: I have read. 2) Underline: Books I love. 3) Reprint this list in your own ... http://www.catscanman.net/blog/2008/07/the-big-read/ Readers who have some knowledge of electrical engineering could probably solve this exercise with ease (?!). For those who do not have any idea about electrical engineering, here are the basic laws that would help (?!) in completing this exercise. Kirchoff's Current Law (KCL, also known as Kirchhoff's first law, Kirchhoff's point ... http://www.catscanman.net/blog/2008/07/an-exercise-in-electrical-engineering/ This is not a post about the utility (or not) of doing a CT scan to diagnose acute appendicitis. I came across this at Shadowfax's blog. It's a great story, which just happens to be about appendicitis & CT scan. I recently cared for a young boy with abdominal pain. He was ... http://www.catscanman.net/blog/2008/07/ct-scan-for-appendicitis-a-different-story/ Blog friend GruntDoc hosts the 200th edition of Grand Rounds, the medical blog carnival: I’m Honored to be the first Sixth Time Host, but more importantly to be the host of the 200th Edition of MedBlogs Grand Rounds.  Dr. Nick Genes deserves all the credit for starting (and maintaining) this wandering ... http://www.catscanman.net/blog/2008/07/200th-edition-grand-rounds/