Here is a photo of the label made by the quilter (not me, I only pieced and did the binding for this one). 
Sorry the photos are better. This quilt (& photos) are from around 2003 or 2004 (I think). 
Welcome to the latest edition of Grand Rounds, the weekly compilation of the best of the medical blogosphere! I presume you would rather take a tour through the Netherlands, visiting windmills and tulips, but we will save this for another time. Right now, let’s take a trip around the library.
1. Be prepared.
2. Expect off-the-wall questions.
3. Speak in plain English.
4. Be concise.
5. Guide the interviewer.
7. Don't guess.
8. Nothing's off the record.
Safe, Quality Hospital Care, part 1
Paul Levy, President & CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, discusses his innovative approach to keeping patients aware of the safety record of his hospital.Safe, Quality Hospital Care, Part 2
Paul Levy discusses how patients can have a better hospital experience, by keeping themselves informed and having an advocate.Safe, Quality Hospital Care, Part 3
Paul Levy discusses how to keep in touch with friends and family while in the hospital, and how to get the best aftercare.
10/1 (10pmET): Dr. A Show
10/8 (10pmET): Dr. A Show
10/13 (10pmET): Dr. A Show: Pre-BlogWorld Expo Show
International Quilt Festival is coming very soon and we need you to help us make this year a success!
Written instructions (pdf file)
Link for YouTube mini-instruction.
Mail finished blocks by Oct 11th to:
Deb Granger
6111 Ganton Ct
Hudsonville, MI 49426
Welcome to Grand Rounds, Volume 5, Number 38. The rounds have travelled over the Atlantic to reside briefly in the green fields of England, to give an English flavour to what is going on in the Medical Blogosphere.The advent of blogging has internationalised many issues, and we see many health care issues are very much shared throughout the world. Some of these I will touch on this week, but the Jobbing Doctor is pleased to be hosting the grand rounds.
One of the coolest things about cloud services like Twitter is that if you follow other people who tweet at cancer conferences such as ASCO, ASH and AACR, you can keep track of other parallel sessions while sitting in a different one. Thus Kerry Wachter tweeted about the pediatric neuroblastoma session she was in earlier this week at ASCO and I couldn’t help but suddenly realize it is 32 years since I had a largish lump the size of a small football removed from my adrenal gland and kidney. 32 years is quite a long time and I haven’t really thought much about it in those intervening years. Gilles Frydman from ACOR challenged/encouraged me to tell my story, so here it is for the first and only time, gulp.
Why Oprah? you may ask. I’m happy to tell you. Oprah Winfrey has been the host of the highest rated syndicated talk show in television history, her self-named The Oprah Winfrey Show. The show has been running for nearly 23 years, with over 3,000 episodes. Winfrey is so famous that she is one of those rare celebrities who is known instantly by just her first name. Say “Oprah,” and virtually everyone will know to whom you’re referring, and her show is often colloquially known as simply Oprah………
But other procedures demand a more binary approach: Sometimes, after the books and the observation, you just have to jump in and do something yourself. That can be especially daunting when the procedure carries risks and the patient is pregnant, writes Adam Wolfberg, M.D., in a guest column on WSJ.com.
This exhibition, on loan from the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, features 29 examples from the center’s highly regarded collection. The quilts represent three specific regional groups, each with its own distinctive features, drawn from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, from Midwestern communities and from Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
If you’re traveling along, and you happen to see this blue truck pulling a trailer … then you’ve found us. Honk, Wave, Smile, let us know that you care !!!
June is bustin' out all over . . . . Lord knows my nose knows it, thanks to all the pollen in the air these days. Check out the classic movie rendition of this set piece (well worth the eight-minute investment), let your coffee and/or antihistamines kick in, and then let's dive into the past week's medblogging, loosely categorized into insights of patient bloggers, provider bloggers, bloggers I've met in real life (the number keeps growing), bloggers following the money trail through the health care thicket, and bloggers who are or should be dancing and/or shirtless (watch the whole movie clip . . . on second thought, let's leave it at dancing).
Hello! Welcome to Change of Shift, the carnival dedicated to nurses and nursing!I’ll start out with a couple of posts about an entity that most nurses everywhere deal with: families. Family members can be a huge help, or they can be the bane of our existence. Usually they lie somewhere in between, being neither overly helpful (which is good if the family “helps” by silencing IV pumps and ventilators) or especially annoying. Nurse Ausmed starts us off with a potpourri of family scenarios. Just as patients come in all shapes in sizes, so do families!
I am planning to Run Melbourne because I want to prove that I can make myself do something ridiculous (that might actually make me fitter).
However, I can use this self-indulgent experience to raise money for breast cancer research. I chose this charity because I have worked with and operated on many women (and men) with breast cancer. This disease is so common that small advances can improve the outcomes for many.
Send some money their way, won't you?
If you’re traveling along, and you happen to see this blue truck pulling a trailer … then you’ve found us. Honk, Wave, Smile, let us know that you care !!!
6/4: Dr. A Show: On Location
6/11: Podcast Guru Cliff Ravenscraft
6/18: Podcamp Ohio Pre-show
6/25: Podcamp Ohio Post-show
July: Summer Vacation
As I suggested in the call for submissions, the theme for this week’s Grand Rounds was loosely reflections on the way life used to be. For me, this theme was prompted by the fact that I have been a patient blogger for almost a year now, was diagnosed with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis almost a year ago to the day, and am finishing my second year of graduate school in a few weeks.When I think about the way life used to be, I automatically think about change, and the myriad ways in which my life has changed over the past few years. Based on all of the submissions I received, this theme seemed to strike a chord.Here is what medical bloggers (you!) had to say… Happy reading!
Wow, it’s hard to believe it’s already been two weeks since the last edition of Change of Shift!
We not only had an increase in submissions, but we have some brand new bloggers to meet this week!
Of course, the big news is the upcoming MedBlogger MeetUp in Las Vegas in October, under the auspices of BlogWorld/New Media Expo. I’m excited, so expect to see a lot of enthusiasm emanating from this space!
Interested in hosting a future Change of Shift? Just check the schedule and let me know what date you would like!
"They want to operate on your grandmother."
Dad was shook. I shuddered. This was one of those dreaded moments when my family looked to me for medical advice.
This month is National Pet First Aid Awareness Month!And we encourage every pup owner to learn what to do in an emergency!
Thank you for participating in this Quilts of Valor Project. We are attempting to help comfort all the war wounded from the War on Terror. Your Autographed Star Block will be joined with other blocks that are sent to us to make a Quilt of Valor for a wounded serviceperson
……………And then just yesterday, I had a patient come into the ER with testicular torsion. He was one of the rare patients who presented in enough time for me to swiftly whisk him to the OR and save his testicle! (there is a window of 6 to 8 hours before the testis undergoes permanent damage for lack of blood flow and oxygen, at which point I have to do an orchiectomy). I felt some degree of redemption, and all was right in the world again....
For this example, I used the Clover fusible web, 5 mm, and ironed it to the back of a flag with the edges folded under.
I then ironed the flag to the pillowcase. You could stop here, but I then hem-stitched the flag to the pillowcase to ensure that it would hold long-term.
The finished pillowcase can then be used to hold the quilt top, backing fabric, and binding when sent to the long-arm quilter. Later it will hold the finished quilt and used to "present" the quilt to the soldier.
