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Jul
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Manhattan Street with iPhone and Camerabag
Manhattan Street with iPhone and Camerabag
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Jul
3rd
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On @foursquare, I am apparently now the Mayor of Lenox Hill Hospital.
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RT @kidney_boy: #FolllowFri @rebel85 @simonprince @kidneynotes (nephrologists on twitter)
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Advice for New Interns

Edwin Leap provides advice for new interns:

1) It’s going to be hard. Deal with it. The less you whine, the more you will be loved and trusted. Learn to be strong, learn to power through your…
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Quest Diagnostics doesn’t support Firefox or Safari YET HAS AN IPHONE APP. (Tho you can fool it w/a Firefox plugin 2 think you run IE.)
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Related: Bioreference needs an iPhone App.
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Steve Jobs and Hospital Employees

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:

Steve, while hospitalized in Tennessee, fired several hospital employees who could not satisfactorily answer the question, “What do you do here?”
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Jul
2nd
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I’m looking forward to using the iPhone 3GS as a pocketwarmer this winter.
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A Mindmap Containing All Major Topics in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.

Structure of the Kidney.
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Brain with Atherosclerosis


NCP 1277,…
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Jul
1st
Wed
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Currently reading “Reaching the Animal Mind” by Karen Pryor. (Jack the eerily-smart french bulldog is a big fan of clickertraining.)
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The iPhone as Mobile Computer John Gruber from Daring Fireball recently wrote on the iPhone as mobile computer. Gruber, one of my favorite technology commentators, convinced me that blogging from the iPhone can actually work…
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The Reading List Alert readers will notice a new addition to The Efficient MD blog’s sidebar — a continually updated “reading list” of posts from other websites I enjoy, most of which have information on new…
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Jun
30th
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Best Practices for Communicating Test Results

Via one widely quoted Archives of Internal Medicine study:

To our knowledge, no guidelines exist to delineate the processes that practices should use to manage test results. Based on our review of…
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Why physicians hate EMRs: “Hydrochlorothiazide is CONTRAINDICATED when fluid overload (a condition associated with hyponatremia) exists.”
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