July 2009
71 posts
I use VoiceCentral every day. New rule: buy useful but controversial iPhone apps before Apple pulls them.
Triple espresso-fueled evening rounds.
“NIH is encouraging its scientists to edit and even initiate Wikipedia articles in their fields.” http://tr.im/uuyw
Information Overload, the Index Medicus, and PubMed http://ping.fm/wnBvT
Test.
Sorry for, um, the infinite loops. (Testing Ping.fm, Twitterfeed.com, and 8 other services.) Fixed now.
As the Twitter to Facebook conduit remains borked, I’m testing Ping.fm instead.
5 bars, full 3G in the middle of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. When did this happen?
Is there an online calculator that allows you to see the effectiveness of various medical therapies? http://bit.ly/yAEIU
“@kidneynotes Listen for more on the kidney trafficking. http://bit.ly/zpVxA” -@ryeh (Thanks.)
Clearly I’ve not followed the news: “New Jersey: come for the kidney-trafficking rabbis, stay for the moneylaundering mayors.” -@xenijardin
Precious Bodily Fluids is crack for kidney nerds. http://bit.ly/qi10U
An unintended consequence of listening to podcasts at double speed is a change in set point: you begin talking VERY rapidly.
“Oh, great, Amazon buys Zappos. Now I have to worry about my shoes getting stolen while I sleep. http://bit.ly/zQ3C2” -@Frauenfelder
Hepatorenal syndrome treated successfully, FTW.
Let’s try that one again with a working link:
Any NYC Twitter folks (non-docs/programmers) want to be photo’d? http://tinyurl.com/lpvzcv david@davidbrabyn.com Plz RT, thx
Any NYC Twitter folks (non-docs/programmers) want to be photographed? tinyurl.com/lpvzcv david@davidbrabyn.com Plz RT, thx.
Spoke w/an MD who’s treating his own high blood pressure. I wonder if you can give *yourself* “white coat” hypertension.
The New Hello Health Video →
Via Hello Health, Jay Parkinson’s brainchild.
Can anyone confirm that @Evernote now quietly performs optical character recognition on PDFs?
Updated iPhone Home Screen →
Show Me Something New (from "Reaching the Animal... →
“Yeeha! The new Hello Health is launching on Monday morning. It’s a soft launch. Keep it quiet!” -@jayparkinson
Oddly, I’m currently being photographed tweeting from the exam room.
Any NYC folks on Twitter interested in being photographed by a photojournalist? Message me. http://tinyurl.com/lpvzcv
Casual discussions about books hospitalized patients are reading are made poignant when they’re dying of liver failure.
Let’s see if I can remotely back up an iTunes library and 20,000 photos using rsync, a @Pogoplug, and a 2 TB drive.
Using up the iPhone’s battery by day’s end was previously annoying. But with the Mophie Juice Pack, it’s now a challenge.
Manhattanhenge 2009 →
Manhattanhenge: http://twitpic.com/a6lmk (via @andrewbaron)
When Doctors Make Mistakes by Pauline Chen →
Dr. Pauline Chen writes in the New York Times:
“I called Dr. Colin P. West recently, a practicing general internist and the associate director of the internal medicine residency training program…
“Oh merciful heavens but the internet is a like a 64 oz. Slurpee of teh crazy, with free refills.” -@cshirky
Anyone else hear of a rumored spike in Legionnaires’ disease (community-acquired) in NYC? (Per Dept. Health. We’re taking care of a pt.)
Medical Bloggers go to Washington →
Via Dr. Wes:
Dr. Wes will stop blogging briefly to participate in a press conference next week entitled “Putting Patients First”, to be held at the National Press Club in Washington on 17 July 2009…
My electronic stethoscope ran out of batteries and died mid-exam. I am again not joking.
New Yorkers can appreciate that a stupid-sounding iPhone app telling them where to stand on subway platforms is BRILLIANT. #exitstrategynyc
“I’m 47 and my uric acid is 8.4. Is this normal?” More WolframAlpha: http://tinyurl.com/kpluyx
“Exit Strategy NYC, a mobile app that tells you where to stand on the subway for your exit http://bit.ly/PM8bP” -@laughingsquid
The best calendar solution for Apple’s iPhone is to sync with Google’s Calendar using Microsoft’s Outlook Sync. I am not making this up.
“HHS is live-tweeting the Flu Summit @flugov #h1n1 #09fs” -@whitehouse
Screenshot of Medical Apps for the iPhone →
It’s odd when people are superstitious about their diseases. “How’s your gout?” “SHHH!” “What, you’re afraid to talk about it?” “SHHHHH!”
Screenshot of Medical iPhone Apps: http://twitpic.com/9n7re
“Evernote giveaway: Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 scanners. Tweet with #evernote_scansnap to enter. More info: http://bit.ly/19zDzN” - @evernote
“Eloping” from the hospital sounds inappropriately romantic.