Shout Outs

Updated 3/2017-- photos and all links removed (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. 

ZDoggMD is the host for this week’s Grand Rounds. You can read this week’s Funny Medical Stuff  edition here.

We are in orbit around a remote County emergency department. My crew of young interns is greener than a vat of Vulcan hemoglobin, and being of the Millennial generation they insist on bringing their stuffed Tribbles to work with them. …..

n the midst of this galactic chaos, Starfleet Command has asked us to host the 8th anniversary edition of medical bloggers’ Grand Rounds. So the great medical bloggers from around the galaxy have kindly contributed their bits and bytes, included below with my own two cents thrown in. Thanks to longtime Borg plastic surgeon Dr. Ramona Bates for hosting the last Grand Rounds; the next will be hosted by those crazy Klingons over at The Healthcare Economist on October 11th, so make sure to boldly go where no…awwww, never mind.

And Now: Grand Rounds Vol. 8 No. 1 ………….

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Dr. Charles is “Calling for Entries in the 2011 Charles Prize for Poetry Contest.”

Announcing the second annual Poetry Contest!

An award will be given to the writer who submits for consideration the most outstanding poem within the realm of health, science, or medicine. ……….

The contest began Wednesday August 31st and ends September 31st, 2011. The winners will be chosen shortly thereafter by an elite group of 8 judges (other doctors, friends with literary training, and select bloggers).  The contest is open to everyone.

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Another thought post by InWhiteInk:  Three Years

My stomach lurched when I saw him.
He was leaning against a brick building, his fingertips gripping the walls as if they alone were holding him upright. His head swiveled back and forth in animated conversation.
He was standing alone.
He looked exactly the same as he did before I left Seattle for New York: Matted hair, unwashed skin, lopsided smile.

The post prompted Vijay (scanman) to tell us of  This American Life episode (Act Three:  The Call of the Great Outdoors)

Every week, Chelsea Merz has lunch with a homeless man named Matthew, in the same restaurant. Matthew's been on the street for seven years, but once or twice a year, he housesits for a friend. She talked to him after he was housesitting for 16 days, on the day he went back out on the street. This story is part of a larger project Chelsea is putting together, with help from Jay Allison, the Cape and Island NPR stations, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (8 minutes)

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I love this T-shirt!  H/T to ACP Internist who writes (photo credit) “Sean Khozin, MD, points out, this is the shirt you want to wear if you ever need CPR.”  

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H/T to @SeattleMamaDoc for tweeting a link to her friend Shelly’s beautiful post on how chemo is like being a fruit fly: I'm nothing but a fruitfly

……….For some reason, this insect lifecycle (of quiet incubation, then, a torrent of energetic, soaring, in-your-face life!, then death, and repeat) reminded me of my own two-week chemo cycle. As I'll explain now, starting with the "death" phase, and moving toward the "hatch". ………….

Then, repeat. Death, egg sacs. Hatching. Glorious flight. …………..

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H/T to @precordialthump for the link to the NY Times Think Like a Doctor: Hiccups Solved!

On Monday I challenged Well readers to figure out a medical mystery involving a middle-aged man with persistent hiccups……..

The correct diagnosis is …pulmonary embolus.

The first two correct answers came within seconds of each other. And so, although we usually assign only one winner, in this case there will be two.

I asked one of the winners, Dr. Mark Lowell, an emergency room physician in Ann Arbor, Mich., how he figured out the case, and he laughed.

“I think everything is a P.E.” he told me, noting that he’d done research on pulmonary embolism. “What’s going to fool you the most? What’s the worst thing this could be in a healthy guy with something funny going on in his chest?”  …………

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H/T to the Needlprint blog:  Unfolding Stories: Culture and Tradition in American Quilts * 24 Sept - 31 Dec 2011 * Fenimore Art Museum, New York 

………..The Quilt pictured above comes with no further details in the press handout - but I personally think it is one of those quilts you need to see before you die - it is magnificent.

I agree and would love to attend the show at the Fenimore, but alas……