July 2009
71 posts
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…
Jul 1st
June 2009
46 posts
Why physicians hate EMRs: “Hydrochlorothiazide is CONTRAINDICATED when fluid overload (a condition associated with hyponatremia) exists.”
Jun 30th
The iPhone’s voice control feature has problems recognizing the word “dialysis” but pronounces difficult names better than I can.
Jun 30th
Waiting for the bus, at midnight, listening to The City & The City by China Miéville.
Jun 30th
Recommendations of the week: getdropbox.com, Mophie Juice Pack Air for iPhone, feedmyinbox.com, pingie.com, unlimited SMS.
Jun 27th
By the way, the RSS to SMS service I was searching for earlier was pingie.com.
Jun 26th
Everyone has their own superpower. I realized today that I can hear the phrase “He’s not making urine” from half a hospital floor away.
Jun 26th
Regarding Steve Jobs’ health: the best prognostic sign is that Fake Steve Jobs is writing again. http://ae06v.tk
Jun 26th
Lazyweb, any recommendations for a service that will email or SMS you when a website is updated? Thanks.
Jun 25th
RT @Wolfram_Alpha: Use Wolfram|Alpha to get a better understanding of your blood pressure: http://bit.ly/weBj9 #wolframalpha
Jun 25th
The elusive CKD-EPI formula for GFR: www.nephromatic.com/egfr.php
Jun 24th
BNP is the new BMP. AMIRITE?
Jun 23rd
Testing Pogoplug for remote offsite backup. Everyone was right: it’s totally easy to set up.
Jun 21st
Steve Jobs Liver Transplant Story in WSJ (bypasses paywall): http://bit.ly/5tgpp (In Tennessee, mean wait for liver txp is only 48 days.)
Jun 21st
The Most Creative People in Health Care →
Jun 21st
RT @movinmeat: Theme of the day: female patients with left-sided kidney stones. Four of them out of nine patients so far. Odd.
Jun 20th
Google Calendar can now wirelessly sync TWENTY FIVE separate calendars with the iPhone.
Jun 20th
Google should acquire practicefusion.com. (I’m at least half-serious.)
Jun 20th
The Most Creative People in Health Care →
Image by KidneyNotes via Flickr Fast Company published a list of the “Top 10 Most Creative People in Health Care.” Equally interesting is ScienceRoll’s list of 10 people they…
Jun 20th
David Pogue's Productivity Secrets →
Image by stevegarfield via Flickr David Pogue is the technology editor of the New York Times. Some interesting ideas. Worth a look. “Dear David,” wrote a reader recently. “When…
Jun 20th
RT @gruber: In low light, new iPhone camera seems to max out at ISO 1016, f/2.8, 1/10 second shutter speed. [Not bad.]
Jun 20th
Apparently the less I write to efficientmd.com, the more people subscribe. (Feedburner now reports > 1300.)
Jun 19th
Excedrine Migraine does not screw around.
Jun 19th
5th Ave Apple Store http://twitpic.com/7soj3
Jun 19th
Am I imagining improved battery life with the iPhone 3.0 update?
Jun 18th
iPhone 3.0 update went perfectly. No crashes. New speed controls for podcasts are shockingly useful.
Jun 18th
Twitter search for “iPhone 3.0 (crash OR crashes OR brick)”: http://tinyurl.com/mhcynv
Jun 17th
A patient proclaimed that we’d get along because I was a Gemini. I told her Geminis don’t believe in astrology.
Jun 17th
Twitter search for “iphone 3.0 servers crash”: http://tinyurl.com/l3g8bf
Jun 17th
Proposed new metric for books: Pages Per AHA Moment (PPAM) — best I’ve seen is two to three.
Jun 17th
TweetDeck just beat out Tweetie for favorite iPhone Twitter app. (And it’s free.)
Jun 17th
RT @dooce: Lil Donette Armstrong has arrived! 7lbs 15 oz., 21 inches!
Jun 14th
RT @dooce: This is labor.
Jun 14th
Google’s Quick Search Box (for the Mac), now out of beta, has completely replaced Quicksilver for me. http://twurl.nl/bt7ph0
Jun 12th
Taking care of an Israeli with Actinomyces israelii. (The universe scores points for irony.)
Jun 10th
RT @Richard_Kadrey: Recent Flickr Uploads of The National Museum of Health & Medicine http://bit.ly/89nKN
Jun 7th
RT @timoreilly: Boston.com’s Big Picture is a national treasure. Here’s their piece on sulfur mining in Indonesia http://bit.ly/KWLa4
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Way more often than you’d think, kidney infections present with no fever, no dysuria, no pain, and bilaterally. (But not all these at once.)
Jun 5th
Words of the day: epiphenomenon, clouded sensorium, pleocytosis, POBA (plain old balloon angioplasty)…
Jun 4th
On a crosstown bus, reading Light: Science and Magic.
Jun 3rd
This godawful EMR includes a prominent checkbox for “Homan’s sign,” a finding so useless that Homan himself disowned it.
Jun 2nd
Doctors: anyone using the Practice Fusion EMR?
Jun 2nd
Manhattanhenge 2009 http://tinyurl.com/md5qnr
Jun 1st