May 2009
45 posts
April 2009
61 posts
OH: “You diagnosed my patient’s girlfriend with hemochromatosis?”
RT @doc_rob: Anyone know what recommendations are for staff in medical offices? If we start seeing cases should we take prophylactic meds?
Just advised a 94-year-old woman to stop smoking. She said, “I’m not going to stop,” and I said, “Okay by me!”
Burning tongue syndrome. That’s a new one. http://is.gd/vmrA
RT @CDCemergency: “CDC reminds you that you can NOT get swine flu from eating pork. http://bit.ly/16YpY1” [Lots of eye-rolling at the CDC.]
Pandora’s decided I should write to music that includes “extensive vamping.” It doesn’t mean what I thought it meant. http://twurl.nl/3wo8mv
This time of night, I throw up my hands and @Instapaper the hell out of everything in sight.
By the way, iPhone sez, you have 8 new voicemails. What, I forgot to tell you this yesterday? (Schrug.) Blame AT&T.
My wheelchair-bound patient’s elevator is broken, so four policeman carried him down five flights to dialysis. (We’re all very thankful.)
Clowns vs. Cops. In a Hospital. http://tinyurl.com/czs8a7
Medical Apps for the iPhone: Diagnosaurus, ICD9 Consult, and WellAdult http://tinyurl.com/clq9q5
Saw a physician-patient with great insight into her own problems: “It’s all due to noncompliance and dietary indiscretion.”
RT @DrCris @kjellthomas @rlbates : electrodized, surgerized, analgized, narcotized… #madeupmedicalwordsendingin-ized
Collecting made-up medical words ending in -ized this week: coumadinized, rectalized, syncopized…
“The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy … enlarged for better readability. We now offer a magnifying lens as an accessory…” No joke.
RT @kevinmd: The Craigslist Killer is a Boston University [pre-]medical student http://bit.ly/tmvbw
In a cab in the rain. Cabdriver: “This is where I did a 360 once.”
When people leave messages on Google Voice it sometimes mistranscribes my name as “Doctor Screamer.”
RT @AllergyNotes: @KidneyNotes No glitch: There Are 7,400 Free Kindle Books Offered by Amazon http://bit.ly/nCrlT
Browsed the Amazon Kindle store to fill up my iPhone. Lots of books listed as *free*. Don’t know if it was a glitch, but I bought them all.
RT @neilhimself: Jim Ballard — J.G. Ballard — RIP. BBC News just broke the story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8007331.stm
Google Scholar/Books is great for jumping into an obscure topic and exploring for an hour or so. Strangely underutilized.
Bug report: @FreshDirect won’t allow me to order more than three kosher dill pickles at a time. (Seriously.)
That old saw about betting on uncommon presentations of common conditions (rather than classic presentations of rare ones) is dead on.
OH conversation between Dr. and patient: “I have a Texas catheter on, I think.” [Pause.] “Uh, do you need me to confirm that for you?”
You think maybe @Oprah switched to lower case because 50,000 people asked her to STOP SCREAMING?
“Chili” is a fine shoe color, but I would have preferred one that didn’t fit the sentence, “I vomited [COLOR] on my shoes.”
If you have a collection of your kidney stones in a display case, it’s reasonable to see a specialist.
Email from the @Drobo at home: “Psst, my drives are almost full. Bring me back a present?”
Has the attention cost of # of Twitter users you follow been studied? Seems analogous to that study of the population ecology of vampires.
Q. for iPhone medical apps users: which are your favorites? US News & World Report is curious. Thanks. @answers
My friend’s baby was just born “in the caul” (w/unruptured membranes — see “caul” in Wikipedia). The midwives suspect she’ll be psychic.
On echocardiogram, “thick sludge” in the heart’s left atrium is apparently worse than “smoke” but better than “clot.”
RT “@tferriss: Anyone have an opinion on treatment for my cervical spine MRI results? http://ping.fm/TEFTa http://ping.fm/6NlTt “
Long conversation with hospital pt. about Apple. Apparently he wrote his 1st book on a II+ and needed an expansion card to type LOWER CASE.
Has anyone established whether the alcohol gel dispensers are all colonized with Clostridium difficile yet?
I request no one mount a distributed denial-of-service attack on the Turbotax website this evening. Thanks.
A patient’s family is arguing about the correct English spelling of their complex Jewish name.
Sometimes I think people who design EMRs secretly hate physicians.
The Daring Fireball t-shirt will probably be too large for my daughter, but I bought one anyway.
A cardiologist I know gets violent when he hears ANgina pronounced anGINA. I bet he feels emasculated.