June 2007
55 posts
Boing Boing is Blocked by Cosi Restaurant...
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Webcams: Night and Day
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Medical Uses of the iPhone
Posted on the Tech Medicine blog.
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No To Do list or Notes Synchronization on the...
Apparently, there’s no To Do list or Notes synchronization between the iPhone and the computer.
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New Post on Switching from the Treo to the iPhone
On the Efficient MD.
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Review of the HydraCoach, an Intelligent Water...
This is a brief review of the HydraCoach, an intelligent water bottle that measures how much you drink. In my last post, I described the HydraCoach, which is marketed primarily to athletes and those concerned about maintain optimal hydration…. Full review on Tech Medicine.
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Mac and PC Ads
I recently switched. Thanks, Ves.
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Better World Books in New York Times
(picture from NYT) Founded by my cousin.
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Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis’ first novel, Crooked Little Vein, is currently #252 in book sales on Amazon even though it won’t be released for a month. Ellis’ website is a big influence on Kidney Notes. I like his work. Buy the book.
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Request for Favorite Webcams
I use the ManyCams viewer for the Mac dashboard, and I’ve been less than completely satisfied with the webcams I’ve found. I have webcams for New York City, Niagra Falls, and the pyramids. (See here for examples.) If you have any favorite webcams of locations, please comment. Thanks.
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Medicine 2.0
This week’s edition is on ScienceRoll.
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Mac Blogger Widgets (for the Dashboard)
Give them a try if you have a Mac and post to Blogger. Especially useful if you have multiple blogs.
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New Title Font
Always experimenting. Comments welcome.
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Updated GTD Mindmap, now with Printable PDF File
See here.
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Flickr: the princess and the red frog
the princess and the red frog, originally uploaded by Karl’s.
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Links for 2007-06-23
Apple - iPhone - A Guided Tour
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Mortality Data for Hospitals Online on "Hospital...
New! Adjusted Heart Attack Death (Mortality) Rates — Heart Attack Death (Mortality) Rates tell you how the 30-day death rates from heart attack at the hospitals you selected compare to the U.S. National heart attack death (mortality) rate…
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Links for 2007-06-21: The Onion on the iPhone
The Onion: Apple’s New iPhone
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Ground Zero at Night via Dashboard Webcam
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Nature Precedings: Prepublication Creative Commons...
From the website:
Nature Precedings is a place for researchers to share pre-publication research, unpublished manuscripts, presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and other scientific documents. Submissions are screened by our professional curation team for relevance and quality, but are not subjected to peer review. We welcome high-quality contributions...
You have new Picture Mail!
You have new Picture Mail!, originally uploaded by KidneyNotes.
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Updated Mindmap / Flowchart of Getting Things Done...
Posted to The Efficient MD.
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Stop Going to Conferences for the Lectures. Listen...
New Efficient MD Post.
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World Trade Center -- "Sarcoid Like" Granulomatous...
From the journal Chest.
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Will Google Buy Apple?
Yes, argues this month’s New Yorker Magazine.
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Dr. Roni Zeiger Posts about Google Health
From the Official Google Blog:
Before joining Google, I was a full-time primary care doctor. My time working with patients every day, hearing their stories and trying to help make them better, is an experience I will cherish forever. And about once a week, I still practice as an urgent care doctor at a county hospital. Based on these experiences, I have witnessed the problems patients face. One of...
FBI to Battle Botnet Zombie Horde
Every PC is a botnet zombie until proven otherwise. We should just start calling them BZ’s. (Can you tell I just switched to the Mac?)
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Walk-In Medical Care at Your Local Drugstore!...
My spouse was walking down the street and saw someone outside Duane Reade (a large drugstore chain) dressed in full surgical gear — scrub top, scrub cap, and sneakers — passing out pamphlets and announcing “Walk-In Medical Care! Walk-In Medical Care!” There was no difference between the way they announced this and the way you would announce, say, a show at a comedy club or...
Links for 2007-06-17
UBC Academic Search - Google Scholar Blog: Top Five (5) Podcasting Articles in Medicine (March 2006)
Takeda dreams of waking slumbering pill’s sales | Chicago Tribune A Chicago-area company finds its non-sedating approach to curing chronic sleeplessness is unable to shake the American public’s desire to take a pill and be knocked out, quickly
The Efficient MD A guide to...
Epocrates Viagra Screwup
Epocrates, a drug database for the Palm, is totally screwed up today. For example, the dosage listed for Viagra is “0.5-1.0 mg IV q 3-5 min prn” — in other words, the program is telling me to give Viagra 0.5 to 1 mg intravenously every 3 - 5 minutes as needed…
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Tech Medicine: HydraCoach, an Intelligent Water...
New Tech Medicine Post on HydraCoach, an intelligent water bottle.
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Dialysis as "Spinning"
My doctor-friends down South refer to dialysis as “Spinning.” It’s very natural to them. To me and to others up North, it still sounds bizarre.
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Cluster of Hepatitis C Infections among Three...
(I’ve had at least two patients so far who’ve received a warning letter…)
Please Distribute to All Clinical Staff in Anesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Primary Care, Infectious Diseases, Family Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, Gastroenterology, Surgery and Infection Control Staff * DOHMH is investigating a cluster of hepatitis C infections in patients who had outpatient intravenous...
New Blog: EfficientMD.com
EfficientMD.com is a new blog focusing on personal productivity for physicians. (And of course, it took me a few hours to get up and running…)
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More Shots of New York City from the Mac Widget of...
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Mac Blogger Widget
Excellent. The Mac Blogger Widget now works.
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Unusual Medical News: A Fatal Overdose of Bengay;...
Two medical cases in the news recently caught my eye. In the first, tragic case, a 17 year old track star from Staten Island was found dead. The detectives who found her noticed a faint minty smell. Laboratory tests eventually revealed a fatal overdose of methyl salicylate, also known as oil of wintergreen, the active ingredient in Bengay. (The teenagers blood reportedly had six times the safe...
Cheney to Have Heart Defibrilator Replaced
Via Reuters:
Vice President Dick Cheney, a survivor of four heart attacks, will have his internal heart-regulating device replaced later this year, his office said on Friday after he had his annual checkup.7 years is not bad for a defibrillator. (Thanks, Huck.)
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"Breaking the Seal" at Over My Med Body!
over my med body! » Physiology of Breaking The Seal
Okay medical blogosphere, let’s figure this one out (comments are open!). Is there a physiologic mechanism to “breaking the seal,” or is it just a drinking myth? (Breaking the seal, if you’re not familiar with the term, refers to the idea that if you’re out drinking, once you start peeing, then you’re going to have to go urinate every 10-20...
"Heads Up: Brain Injury in Your Practice"
A resource on concussions rom the CDC.
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Link for 2007-06-08
Medicine in Second Life: virtual doctors and hospitals « ScienceRoll
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Reading List: The 4-Hour Workweek, Blindsight,...
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Toast by Charles Stross
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
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Apple iPhone Ad
If the on screen keyboard is usable, this might replace my Treo 650 as soon as I can escape from Sprint.
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Hilarious Journal Articles #83: Acute Wiiitis
From the New England Journal of Medicine:
To the Editor: A healthy 29-year-old medical resident awoke one Sunday morning with intense pain in the right shoulder. He did not recall any recent injuries or trauma and had not participated in any sports or physical exercise recently. He consulted a rheumatology colleague. The Patte’s test was positive, consistent with acute tendonitis isolated...
Trends in Professional and Academic Online...
From INFORUM 2007. Full text available. Lots of useful criticisms of Google Scholar.
Since the 1970s there has been significant competition among the major players within the traditional, subscription-based professional and academic online information services arena. Since the late 1990s some of the mushrooming (partially) open access information services which originally targeted the huge market...
Hilarious Journal Articles #82: Didgeridoo playing...
From the British Medical Journal (Where Else?):
Results Participants in the didgeridoo group practised an average of 5.9 days a week (SD 0.86) for 25.3 minutes (SD 3.4). Compared with the control group in the didgeridoo group daytime sleepiness (difference -3.0, 95% confidence interval -5.7 to -0.3, P = 0.03) and apnoea-hypopnoea index (difference -6.2, -12.3 to -0.1, P = 0.05) improved...
Classic Literature AudioBooks Read by Professional...
The Naxos AudioBooks Download Shop:
Our catalogue of more than 350 recordings of the finest works of classic literature – from the finest works of classic fiction through poetry and Junior Classics, to exciting modern and contemporary fiction – is now available to download. A growing number of visitors to the website as well as CD buyers throughout the world have asked when we would start our own...
The FDA Advises You to Avoid These Toothpastes
I wrote about poisoning with diethylene glycol on Tech Medicine. From the FDA News Release:
Consumers should examine toothpaste products for labeling that says the product is made in China. Out of an abundance of caution, FDA suggests that consumers throw away toothpaste with that labeling. FDA is concerned that these products may contain “diethylene glycol,” also known as...
TV Kidney Competition was a Hoax
Via BBC NEWS:
A Dutch TV contest that purported to show a dying woman choose a patient to receive her kidneys was a hoax. The “donor” in the show was in fact an actress - though the three people vying for an organ were real patients in need of a kidney transplant.
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Tech Medicine Post on Aquapheresis, a New...
Part 1 is here: http://tinyurl.com/29m4ys.
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