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Updated 3/2017-- all links removed as many no longer active and it is easier than checking each one.

Doc Gurley is this week's host of Grand Rounds. You can read it here.

Welcome to Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 44.  A Grand Rounds full of plot twists, drama, melodrama and yes, death (this is a medical blog roundup after all).

Just for fun, I am going to group the submissions under acts whose real names you’ll have to guess (pick from: The Hunt Is Afoot, The Law Gets Involved, Death Arrives, Clues Are Discovered, The Plot Thickens, and All Is Revealed).

Suggestions/nominations for the acts’ titles can go in the comments and the people who get the closest to the right answers can wear their imaginary Sherlock Holmes deerstalkers with pride. The rest of us can instead wear our Doctor Watson designation (also with pride).

Here are some posts on the "Patients First” meeting Dr Val put together at the National Press Club this past Friday.  I hope I didn’t miss any.

• Congressman Paul Ryan’s Speech To Medical Bloggers At The National Press Club (Better Health)
• KevinMD Addresses Crowd At National Press Club About Primary Care Crisis (by KevinMD)
• My Comments At the National Press Club, Washington DC (by Dr Wes)  
• Washington Wrap-Up  (by Dr Wes)
• Someone Who Actually Knows How to Put Patients First (by DrRich)
• Washing Tons for Boggers (by Dr Rob)
• Patients First: Twitter Transcript (by Robin)
• Better Health in D.C.: the Panel, the Politics and the Ce-Ment Pond (by Kim)
• Reflections on health-care reform (by Dr Edwin Leap)

H/T to scanman who tweeted this:  “RT @precordialthump Trick of the Trade: IO line for failed IV access http://bit.ly/4qfUl Awesome post & video. Hats off to the volunteers!!!”  This link is to this article, Sneak Peak "Trick of the Trade": IO line for failed IV access, which has a very nice video showing IO (intraosseous access)

In the video below, 3 brave (a.k.a. crazy) volunteers get an IO drilled into their proximal tibia. Apparently, the insertion is only mildly painful and the infusion of fluids is actually the more painful part of the procedure. You might consider priming the IV tubing with 1% lidocaine to minimize pain in awake patients.

H/T to MedGadget for this:  For Tender Feet, Shoes Simulate Barefoot Running Safely.   I’d love to have a pair of these FiveFingers from Vibram.   Maybe I’ll ask for a pair for my upcoming birthday. 

Check out this cake from a former ophthalmologist turned pastry chef  -- Reaching New Heights.  You should check some of her others at her blog Charmaine’s Pastry Blog.

Dr Rob is now doing podcast as the “House Call Doctor”  giving “quick and dirty tips” to help you take charge of your health.   You can find the list of his podcasts here.  Enjoy!

       

This week Dr Anonymous will be taking July off. You might want to use this time to listen to some of the shows in his Archives.