Shout Outs

Updated 3/2017-- photos and all links removed as many are no longer active and it was easier than checking each one.


HL7Standards is the host for this week’s Grand Rounds! You can read this week’s edition here.

As a blog dedicated to “engaging conversations on healthcare and technology,” this week’s edition of Grand Rounds is dedicated to posts discussing the relationship between health care and technology. Technology in health care has received more than a notable amount of press over the last few years and more than a few people have something to say about it.

In response to Grand Rounds, we received a number of great submissions by health care bloggers, some positive and others negative, about the impact technology has had on how health care is perceived and understood, delivered and received. …….

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Next week I will host Grand Rounds.  There is no theme, but I would ask you to have them submitted by noon (CST) Monday February 7th.  To participate, please email me  [rlbatesmd AT gmail DOT com] -- include with the name of the post, the post url, the blog title, the blog url, and a short description of the post (one or two lines).  Make sure to put “Grand Rounds Submission” in the subject line of the email.

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In case you missed it, the new USDA Dietary Guidelines can be found here:   Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010.  Some of the key recommendations:

Increase vegetable and fruit intake.  Eat a variety of vegetables, especially dark-green and red and orange vegetables and beans and peas.

Consume at least half of all grains as whole grains.

Increase intake of fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products, such as milk, yogurt, cheese, or fortified soy beverages.

Choose a variety of protein foods, which include seafood, lean meat and poultry, eggs, beans and peas, soy products, and unsalted nuts and seeds.

Increase the amount and variety of seafood consumed by choosing seafood in place of some meat and poultry.

Reduce daily sodium intake to less than 2,300 milligrams (mg) and further for …….

Reduce the intake of calories from solid fats and added sugars.

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The 2010 Medical Weblog Awards Finalists have been named! Congratulations to all of them!  Well deserved. 

This year's competition is sponsored by Epocrates® and Lenovo. (photo credit)

Voting will begin this coming Thursday, February 3, 2011 and will close 12 midnight on Sunday, February 13, 2011 (EST). We will have instructions, voting booths, and further details here at Medgadget.com on Thursday.

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The Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal website has a wonderful gallery of educational videos.  Here are the titles and links to a few of them:

Facial Fractures - Video 2 – Optimizing Miniplate Fixation for Simple Mandibular Fractures

Facial Fractures - Video 7 – Frontal Sinus Repair

Blepharoplasty and Browlift - Video 1 - Blepharoplasty in the Female Patient

Skin Grafts and Local Flaps – Video 1 – The Scalp Skin Graft

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A nice news piece from BBC World Service:  A Cosmetic Surgeon's Double Life (written and video)

Top plastic surgeon Dr Enrique Steiger leads a surprising professional double life. He may make money from performing cosmetic surgery for the rich, but he also helps the less fortunate by treating casualities in African war zones.

………For several months of each year, he also lives and works in battle zones with the International Committee of the Red Cross.

He performs life-saving trauma surgery on local people who are not offered the same emergency medical treatment that is available to troops.

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Via twitter:   @ctsinclair  “Handbook for Mortals http://bit.ly/dQGPns Free book by Joanne Lynn speaking now at @FIMDM”

This online edition includes the full text of the Handbook for Mortals by Joanne Lynn, M.D. and Joan Harrold, M.D., an authoritative consumer guide to end-of-life care. For more information about the book, which you may also buy online, click here.

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Via @palmd comes a link to the Discover Magazine’s post:  Celebrating female science bloggers

There’s an animated discussion in the making about female science bloggers. It started in the wake of an excellent session on women bloggers at ScienceOnline 2011, and has led to several thoughtful posts on the issues that they face, self-promotion, dealing with sexism, and more.

……... So this is a list of women bloggers who I think you should read, with specific reasons why I think you should read them, and some of my favourite posts of theirs to get you started. And note, this is not a list of top female science bloggers; it’s an all-female list of top science bloggers. ……

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For those of us love cheesecake, this was shared via twitter.  I have yet to try it, but will (photo credit). 

From @purplesque “New evenin -binge favorite- cheesecake in a mug. Replace the eggs with milled flax.  http://www.2stews.com/2009/09/cheesecake-in-mug.html”

……. This cake is great for people at work, in dorms or if you just want cheesecake...fast! My Cheesecake in a Mug, is so good and versatile that you can have a different topping each day. ……….

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From Burda Style blog:

…..For our third installment of SEWING MADE EASY™ how-to video series, one of those employees, Jamila Jordan, joins Martha to show off how to make a super cute reversible purse using the SINGER® Curvy™ sewing machine. The template and instructions for this adorable bag are available here (link removed 3/2017) so you can whip up your own version at home!

Shout Outs

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


Dr. Bryan Vartabedian, 33 charts, is the host for this week’s Grand Rounds! You can read this week’s edition here.

The reason I love grand rounds is that it offers me the opportunity to see stuff that I might normally overlook.

No themes here, per se.  Just some good stuff from around the web.  The response was great and all offered something unique.  I have chosen, however, to select some of the best material for your reading pleasure.  Rather than generate a massive dung heap of disconnected links that no one can practically manage, I have made the administrative decision to focus on some of the more compelling content.  I’ve also tried to place an emphasis on new, potentially understated blogs that might not otherwise see the light of day.

Buckle your seatbelt and keep your arms inside the vehicle.

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Kim, Emergiblog, is the host of the latest edition of Change of Shift (Vol 5, No 15)! You can find the schedule and the COS archives at Emergiblog. (photo credit)

Welcome to Change of Shift!
This is a miniature edition!
The quantity is tiny, the quality is superb!
Grab some coffee, kick back
Change of Shift is in da house!
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Editor’s Pick: At the AJN Off the Charts blog, Juliana Paradisi pens a fantastic post on privacy, both personal and for patients, in Nurses, Hospitals and Social Media: It Depends What Business You’re In.  …..

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Dr. Itzhak Brook, My Voice, shares an essay at KevinMD:  A laryngectomy shakes this physician to the core

As an infectious diseases physician with a special interest in head and neck infections, I had extensive experience in otolaryngological illnesses. However, when I was exposed to new, different, and challenging experiences as a neck cancer patient, I had to deal with these as a patient — not as a physician. I endured the consequences of radiation, repeated surgeries, and prolonged hospitalizations. I confronted medical errors in my care, discrimination following loss of my vocal cords, and the hardships of regaining my ability to speak.  ………….

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Listening to NPR last week, I caught Tina Brown discussing her Must Read selections for the week.  The one that caught my attention was the story of the 'The Man Who Saw Too Much'.  It profiles Michael Ferrara who suffered PTSD as a first responder. 

The original article in the January 2011 issue of Outside Magazine is by Hampton Sides:  “The Man Who Saw Too Much”

LOOKING BACK over his nearly 30 years as a highly decorated first responder in Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley, Michael Ferrara has trouble pinpointing the exact moment when his life began to unravel. His ordeal arrived not all at once but in a long spool of assaults on his soul and psyche. A plausible starting point, though, might be March 29, 2001, and a nightmare that occurred at the airport in Aspen. ………

Starting in March, to boost the profile of his First Responder Recovery Project, Ferrara plans to ski across the state of Alaska.

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Don’t forget to submit your nominations to MedGadget’s Medical Blog Awards -- 2010 Medical Weblog Awards!  This marks the 7th year of the competition. This year's competition is sponsored by Epocrates® and Lenovo. (photo credit)

While you’re at MedGadget’s, check out  how “handyscope Turns iPhone Into Professional Dermatoscope”

The handyscope is an optical attachment and an accompanying app that converts an iPhone into a practical dermatoscope. The attachment provides up to 20x magnification for the phone's camera and illuminates the skin with polarized light thanks to built-in LEDs and internal batteries. The iPhone app is used to store and examine encrypted images, as well as for sharing with other dermatologists for second opinions.

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From LITFL comes a great post which takes you through the management of a toddler’s oral burn:   Hot Lips (photo credit)

You may want to check out my post on the same topic from September 28, 2007, Electric Burns to the Mouth

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KevinMD has written a commentary, Old Doctors Who Continue to Practice, which was inspired by the NYTimes article, Worry Grows About Aging Doctors’ Fitness to Practice.  The NY Times article begins this way:

About eight years ago, at the age of 78, a vascular surgeon in California operated on a woman who then developed a pulmonary embolism. The surgeon did not respond to urgent calls from the nurses, and the woman died.

…., he continued to perform operations for four years until the board finally referred him for a competency assessment …..
“We did a neuropsychological exam, and it was very abnormal,” said Dr. William Norcross, director of the physician assessment program there, who did not identify the surgeon. “This surgeon had visual-spatial abnormalities, could not do fine motor movements, could not retain information, and his verbal I.Q. was much lower than you’d expect.”

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Jessica, Endless Knots, has a nice post on “Taking verbatim notes.”  She describes how she does just that when conducting interviews in a step-by-step process:

……….Which brings me to my method for taking verbatim notes, which I'm guessing a lot of other writers/consultants use but just in case you don't...here goes. ……...

1. Open your fave word processing program and …..

2. In Tools>Autocorrect, enter abbreviations for the words you're most likely to hear your interviewees say. Example: current project is in healthcare. I enter "hc" for healthcare; dr for doctor; emr for electronic medical record; clbrt for collaborate, etc. The easiest way to create your own shorthand is by drpng vwls. Got it?

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Medi-Smart.com is hosting the Scrubinator Photo Contest.  The contest is open to everyone from students to seasoned professionals.  It launched January 19, 2011 and will run until April 20, 2011.

To enter the contest, participants must submit photos of themselves in their creative scrub apparel for a chance to win a $250 gift card to Scrubs and Beyond.

The official rules can be found here.  Each month, two winning pictures will be selected and announced on the official website and across the site’s social media profiles. 

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Dr Anonymous’ guest this week will be KevinMD  who will be talking at the Texas Medical Association meeting on Jan 29, 2011.  Dr. Anonymous will also talk about the future of the Doctor Anonymous Show on BlogTalkRadio.  The show begins at 9 pm EST.

You may want to listen to the shows in his Archives. Here are some to get you started:
GruntDoc, Sid Schwab, Dr. Val, Kevin MD, Rural Doctoring, Emergiblog, Crzegrl, Dr. Wes, TBTAM, Gwenn O'Keeffe, Bongi, Paul Levy, John Halamka, and ScanMan

Shout Outs

Updated 03/2017:  removed all links as several blogs/posts no longer exist and it was easier than going through each one

DrRich, Covert Rationing Blog, is this week's host of Grand Rounds. You can read this week’s edition here.

The Holidays may be over, but there’s no rest for Santa or his cute little Congressional elves. ………..

And so, to Santa, to the elves, and to anyone else enlightened enough to seek it out, DrRich is honored to present: Grand Rounds.

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Kim, Emergiblog, is the host of the latest edition of Change of Shift (Vol 4, No 14) !   It is the first edition of the new year.  You can find the schedule and the COS archives at Emergiblog.

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Change of Shift of the new decade!
Are you still writing “09″? I’m not! For some reason I have converted to “01″. Lord knows how many of my charts have the wrong dates on them!
It’s a new decade and the new year finds the nursing blogosphere is still going strong. Let’s get started!

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Dr. Steven Lomazow  has opened his blog, FDR's Deadly Secret, which includes post of many of the papers, videos, etc used in writing the book, 'FDR's Deadly Secret' with fellow author Eric Fettmann.

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I am included in this issue of General Surgery News on Women in Surgery.  It is humbling to be featured along with Dr. Kathrin Troppmann, Dr. Lori Brown, Dr. Sharona Ross, Dr. Julie Ann Freischlag, Dr. Celeste Hollands, Dr. Nicole Fox, Dr. Lyssa Neida Ochoa, Dr. Lori Lerner, and Dr. Dinee Collings Simpson, Dr. Danielle Walsh, Dr. Jennifer Rosen, Dr. Susan Kaiser, and Dr. Eva Wall. 

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Updated 3/2017:  all links removed as several blogs/posts no longer active and it's easier than going through each one.

 

MedGadget is asking for nominations for the best of medical blogs.  You can make your nominations here by leaving a comment with your choice. Nominations will be accepted until Sunday, January 24, 2010

The categories for this year's awards are:

-- Best Medical Weblog
-- Best New Medical Weblog (established in 2009)
-- Best Literary Medical Weblog
-- Best Clinical Sciences Weblog
-- Best Health Policies/Ethics Weblog
-- Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog
-- Best Patient's Blog

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I realize this post from Dino Doc, Musings of a Dinosaur, is from August 2009, but the start of the new year is a great time to update and print out a new health information card:  Public Service Announcement

Use your computer to print out a free wallet card with all your up-to-date medical information here.

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 Dr Anonymous does not appear to have a show  scheduled this week.    You may want to listen to the shows in his Archives. 

Here are some to get you started:

GruntDoc, Sid Schwab, Dr. Val, Kevin MD, Rural Doctoring, Emergiblog, Crzegrl, Dr. Wes, TBTAM, Gwenn O'Keeffe, Bongi, Paul Levy, John Halamka, and ScanMan