August 2007
16 posts
Gmail Around the World Video
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Your Favorite Chief Complaint / Initial...
Mine:
“A 23 year old pregnant jockey presents with a fever, a sore throat, and a red eye.”
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Hilarious Journal Articles #85: Pac Man and...
When Fear Is Near: Threat Imminence Elicits Prefrontal-Periaqueductal Gray Shifts in Humans, in Science:
Humans, like other animals, alter their behavior depending on whether a threat is close or distant. We investigated spatial imminence of threat by developing an active avoidance paradigm in which volunteers were pursued through a maze by a virtual predator endowed with an ability to chase,...
The "Spook Country" Audiobook by William Gibson
On the way to work, listened to William Gibson’s Spook Country, the audiobook. I persistently can’t believe it’s been twenty years since Neuromancer. (Anyone share this feeling?) To its credit, Spook Country brings back the thrill of reading Neuromancer for the first time.
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Central Park
Central Park, originally uploaded by KidneyNotes.
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Abandoned Space
Abandoned Space, originally uploaded by KidneyNotes.
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Hilarious Journal Articles #84: The untapped...
The artice from BBC News is here. This paper, from the Lancet Infectious Diseases, discusses the “Corrupted Blood Plague” in World of Warcraft:
Simulation models are of increasing importance within the field of applied epidemiology. However, very little can be done to validate such models or to tailor their use to incorporate important human behaviours. In a recent incident in the...
Does Clostridium Difficile Colonize Alcohol-Based...
C. difficile is not killed by the alcohol-based hand sanitizers commonly used in most hospitals (alcohol, apparently, is not “sporicidal”). Here’s my question: has anyone shown that C. difficile doesn’t colonize these hand sanitizers? Wouldn’t that be the perfect way to spread? (via Kidney Notes)
Hurricane Dean Side View
Hurricane Dean Side View, originally uploaded by cayobo.
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Film Shoot, NYC, by iPhone
Film Shoot, NYC, by iPhone, originally uploaded by KidneyNotes.
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Medicare Says it Won't Cover Hospital Errors
Look for the definition of an “error” to be expanded dramatically… Central line infection? C. difficile colitis? Ventilator associated pneumonia? From the New York Times:
In a significant policy change, Bush administration officials say that Medicare will no longer pay the extra costs of treating preventable errors, injuries and infections that occur in hospitals, a move they say...
Adam Bosworth Lecturing on Google Health
Adam Bosworth, GoogleHealth, originally uploaded by AlphachimpStudio.
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First Google Health Screenshots
Via Google Blogoscoped.
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Columbia's Forms for Implementing...
On Tech Medicine, I recently discussed patient-physician email. As part of the review, I looked at Columbia University’s guidelines for allowing providers to use nonencrypted email and still be compliant with the HIPAA privacy law. (Their web page is excellent and I strongly recommend that you read it if you’re interested in this topic.) I’ve extracted the text from the two...
Patient-Physician Email
New post on Tech Medicine about patient-physician email. (via Kidney Notes)
Medical Boards Interactive: "Your Patient Has...
I spoke with someone who recently took the medical boards (USMLE Step III, to be exact). There’s a section which is interactive — that is, it give you an actual case, sort of like an old style Infocom adventure game, and you must type in your responses. For example, when I took it a few years back, one of the questions went like this:
Your patient arrives in the emergency department...