March 2009
51 posts
Doctors my age can’t imagine training with the Internet. And doctors now in training can’t imagine life without it.
Collection of interviews from the New England Journal of Medicine: http://tinyurl.com/d8q28l
In the coronary care unit today I had cause to use the word “endocarditides” for the first time.
Finished reading “It sucked and then I cried” entirely on the iPhone’s Kindle app. (Thumbs up.) Now reading “Here comes everybody.”
On call. Fortified with a doubleshot espresso and girt with disposable fountain pens.
Apparently, Quest Diagnostics’ new lab system doesn’t support Firefox because “Firefox has too many security options.”
RT @intueri: Creating mp3 files of myself reciting DSM criteria. This is what it’s come down to, people.
Question for the medical librarians: the Index Medicus weighed 37 kg in 1985. How much did it weigh in 2004? Thanks.
The new Evernote Firefox extension is perfect. http://is.gd/73w
Sometimes I wish patients could donate potassium to one another. (E.g., patient a banana from death donates to pt. nearly paralyzed.)
How Doctors Learn (and a Request for Help) http://tinyurl.com/cu7c63
Monthly Introduction to Tech Medicine http://tinyurl.com/coty6u
Finishing Anathem, finally.
MUDPILES is out, GOLDMARK is in. http://tinyurl.com/dbl9me
Home of the (Unoffcial) SXSW 2009 Torrent: http://tinyurl.com/carlj3
Writing on “Ways Doctors Learn.” Here’s the Google Search: http://tinyurl.com/dfuqe4 (Oh hey, I wrote #6.)
Apple Store in Light Snow. http://twitpic.com/29woe
Renal biopsy conference at Columbia adds two hours to my workday and it’s totally worth it.
A patient of mine with a stroke, paralyzed on the left, LOVES her new Kindle.
Hacking through inboxes with a machete. #weeklyreview #gtd
Testing out Lensrentals.com this weekend. So far, impressed. Trying out this lens: http://tinyurl.com/bjn948
In Omnifocus, anyone know if there is a script/method/template for creating a single new repeating task? Thanks. @answers
RT @spolley: OH “We used to have voice recognition software… Omnicef became Ominous F…. Pt lives in St. Cloud was Pt is an insane clown”
Upgrading to Google Voice.
My non-medical friends are wishing me a happy National Kidney Day.
Great conversation this morning with Dr. Ende, medicine chair at Penn, about The Efficient MD book. Very encouraging.
RT @jdickerson: GTD summit is tomorrow. I was going to go. Totally spaced. I need some kind of system. #gtdsummit
Cool mist falling on the crystal Apple cube this morning.
Patients seen. Writing done. Inbox zero. Dog walked. Daughter asleep.
It would be difficult to intentionally design a user interface that was more of a train wreck than the one on this EMR I’m using.
RT @pharbeson (re: Watchmen reviews): “Just like those anti-nerds; bringing knives to a raygun fight.”
Google Books indexes the Weekly World News: http://tinyurl.com/djtwwl
Loved Watchmen. Snyder nailed it. Now back to work.
Friday’s Work Pandora Mix: Chamber (Baroque).
New Google Health Features http://tinyurl.com/bwn38l
How a Medical Student Uses Evernote as a Peripheral Brain http://tinyurl.com/bjpo4f
Bizarre Devices from Medicine’s Dark Past http://tinyurl.com/b8mshc
Nephrology Calculators for the iPhone http://tinyurl.com/c276u9
Feedmyinbox works great as a rssfwd.com substitute, but the formatting for certain pages on the iPhone, like Dooce, is still screwed up.
Has anyone gotten the NYT subscription on the Kindle for IPhone to work?
Met with a publisher from Elsevier at Starbucks to discuss electronic publishing. Showed him the iPhone Kindle app.
Kindle on the iPhone works great.
Sending an SMS to Google’s calendar (synced w/mobile sync) is WAY quicker than entering an event on the iPhone’s calendar.
How to force Safari 4 to open links in a new tab instead of a new window: http://tinyurl.com/ambpvp
How many people have desks as insanely disorganized as Al Gore’s? http://bit.ly/15hcD5 Does this improve or reduce your productivity?