July 2009
71 posts
I printed out this page from @Wolfram_Alpha for a morbidly obese patient: http://bit.ly/Qbldy
Congratulations! — RT @blogborygmi: Monday morning will be my first attending shift!
RT @Pogue: My wife & I now test the cellphone delay (“say 3 with me. 1, 2, 3!”) at start of a call, so we don’t think we’re interrupting…
RT @DrVes: “In order to provide optimal care, each US nephrologist woud have to see 25 patients per day, 6 days a week” http://bit.ly/inFS1
Someone should study whether patient boredom in hospitals is a positive prognostic sign.
Case Study of a Physician's Use of the iPhone 3GS... →
I recently upgraded my original iPhone, which I purchased two years ago, to the iPhone 3GS. Truthfully, I wasn’t expecting much of a change. Sure, I read the marketing hype — faster processor! 3G…
In a patient’s room when Blade Runner comes on. (He’s interested and has never seen it.) I turn the volume way up and quietly shut the door.
OH (in hospital): “Listen, if you have any trouble getting blood, let me know, and I’ll call up my friend, and we’ll get you some blood.”
RT @kidney_boy: #FolllowFri @rebel85 @simonprince @kidneynotes (nephrologists on twitter)
On @foursquare, I am apparently now the Mayor of Lenox Hill Hospital.
Advice for New Interns →
Edwin Leap provides advice for new interns:
1) It’s going to be hard. Deal with it. The less you whine, the more you will be loved and trusted. Learn to be strong, learn to power through your…
Quest Diagnostics doesn’t support Firefox or Safari YET HAS AN IPHONE APP. (Tho you can fool it w/a Firefox plugin 2 think you run IE.)
Related: Bioreference needs an iPhone App.
Steve Jobs and Hospital Employees →
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Steve, while hospitalized in Tennessee, fired several hospital employees who could not satisfactorily answer the question, “What do you do here?”
I’m looking forward to using the iPhone 3GS as a pocketwarmer this winter.
Brain with Atherosclerosis →
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NCP 1277,…
A Mindmap Containing All Major Topics in Biology,... →
Structure of the Kidney.
Currently reading “Reaching the Animal Mind” by Karen Pryor. (Jack the eerily-smart french bulldog is a big fan of clickertraining.)
The iPhone as Mobile Computer →
John Gruber from Daring Fireball recently wrote on the iPhone as mobile computer. Gruber, one of my favorite technology commentators, convinced me that blogging from the iPhone can actually work…