October 2007
13 posts
Following a Birth on Twitter / Flickr
making progress, originally uploaded by merlinmann. Robert Scoble and (now) Merlin Mann have both followed the birth of their children on Flickr and Twitter. View’s getting prettier; Ribsy’s getting closer. Head down, strong heart, and looking awesome by all accounts. We’ve also had independent reports of a fontanelle and a sighting of a head of hair. (via Kidney Notes)
Oct 27th
"Professionalism and the Psychopathology of...
This is an email sent to the Department of Medicine at Columbia by Donald Landry, Acting Chair of Medicine (and one of my mentors). I’ve reproduced it here because it’s one of the strongest and best arguments for handwashing that I’ve read. — Re: Professionalism and the Psychopathology of Everyday Life Consider the spectacle of surgeons who argue with JCAHO inspectors...
Oct 26th
Wow, their Radiation Detectors are Sensitive
Just saw a patient who relayed this story. She was buying coffee at Starbucks at Newark Airport. Two homeland security personnel were standing next to her when the suddenly glanced at each other, then at her. The radiation alarm on their hips had gone off. “Have you recently had a nuclear stress test of the heart?” they asked. “Why yes,” she answered, “…three...
Oct 19th
42nd Street Up Close
42nd Street Up Close, originally uploaded by KidneyNotes. (via Kidney Notes)
Oct 19th
Dinner with Sermo's CEO, Dr. Daniel Palestrant
I’ll be at an informal dinner tomorrow (Thursday) with Sermo’s CEO and founder, Dr. Daniel Palestrant. If anyone has particular questions they’d like me to ask (time permitting), please leave a comment. Sermo is the largest online community for physicians. I discussed Sermo at my talk on “Health 2.0” at the 5th Annual Healthcare M&A and Corporate Development...
Oct 17th
"How to Cite Blogs" by the NIH / National Library...
For anyone who’s wondered how (or even whether) to cite blogs in formal academic medical papers, the National Library of Medicine / National Institutes of Health provides a style guide. (They used Kidney Notes as one of the examples. I’m honored.) (via Kidney Notes)
Oct 12th
Hilarious Journal Articles #88: Random Neuronal...
Via Neuron: The resting brain is not silent, but exhibits organized fluctuations in neuronal activity even in the absence of tasks or stimuli. This intrinsic brain activity persists during task performance and contributes to variability in evoked brain responses. What is unknown is if this intrinsic activity also contributes to variability in behavior. In the current fMRI study, we identify a...
Oct 11th
A Stanford Medical IT Specialist Inteviewed by...
Via Scoble: This 47 minute conversation is very interesting. Why? Well, he’s working with Google on a personal healthcare site. We cover a LOT of ground about technology trends inside the medical industry… we cover the various “personal healthcare services like Microsoft HealthVault” at about minute 41 and also cover some of the fears of giving services like these your health care data....
Oct 8th
I'm an Editor at Medgadget.com
The good folks at Medgadget.com made me an editor! So I’ll be intermittently posting there, too — because, you know, I have so much time. (via Kidney Notes)
Oct 7th
Doctors and Medical Students on Twitter
I’m surprised more doctors and medical students don’t use Twitter. It’s a useful tool — for example, see the sidebar of this blog, this post on Medicine 2.0, and this post on Clinical Cases and Images. The following is a list of doctors and medical students on Twitter: Enoch Choi Bertalan Meskó Joshua Schwimmer If you’d like to add your name to the list,...
Oct 7th
Adam Bosworth Returns
Via his blog: Well, as some seem to know, I’ve left Google. And now that I’ve left, that old entrepreneurial fever has struck me again and I’m off working on a startup. Google is a wonderful company and I had a great time there and had a lot of fun building something I really believe in, Google Health, which I think has a great potential to change the way consumers manage their health when it...
Oct 7th
42nd Street From Afar
42nd Street From Afar, originally uploaded by KidneyNotes. (via Kidney Notes)
Oct 4th
New Preop "Clearance" Guidelines: ACC/AHA 2007...
Updated from 2002. The PDF is here: ACC/AHA 2007 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Care for Noncardiac Surgery: Executive Summary. A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2002 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery) (via Kidney...
Oct 2nd