We have been contemplating the concept of having a Brown Bag session once in two weeks in our department for quite a while now, and we set the ball rolling today with […]
Brown Bag Sessions: Food for Thought
Facebooking Your Faculty: To be or not to be?
Few emerging technologies have taken by storm the world as much as Facebook has. Although a plummeting share price has theoretically halved Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune (it has come down to $18.75 from […]
The Sailor’s Syphilis Detecting Handshake: Preventive Medicine or An Oslerian Folklore?
This post is a result of a Tweet that reminded me of my clinical medicine lectures from a several years ago when we were taught that as medical practitioners, we would sometimes […]
TimeUse: What People Do On Twitter All Day
This is a quickie post before I run to the gym. Hat Tip: Jon Wilkins of Lost in Transcription (and the rather wordy Darwin Eats Cake webcomics). So this is a question […]
Are patients really “worse off” with older docs?
In what appears to be a largely counter intuitive result, research by the American Journal of Medicine has unearthed that patients end up faring worse when treated by older doctors or more […]
The Tyranny of Diagnosis
For a profession that primarily concentrates on the well being of the human being, we seem to be very disconnected with the suffering person. We hide behind the facades of cases/bed no./patient […]
Buck-teria!
First up, a disclaimer. I know one of the researchers who conducted this short study personally and professionally. I admire their work and what they have done to further the cause of […]
50th Post, 1000 Page Views and Flying Reindeers
So, I have been blogging here for just about a month and a half, but the numbers have started to get going a bit. This is the 50th post and I feel […]
