April 2010
91 posts
The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash. →
The always excellent Charles Stross on Steve Jobs. (Google “Accelerando” to read Stross’ book for free.)
A condensed medical case: rhabdomyolysis w/o renal failure or pain suspected b/c of inc. AST/ALT & hemoglobinuria w/o RBCs. CPK > 32,000!
Cardiac arrest resuscitation, with wife as witness →
A study suggests that staying at the bedside should be presented as an option to families.
My patient passed out in the Apple Store. The cardiologist’s note: “He was learning the complexities of some of the iPhone type of stuff.”
What's Keeping Us So Busy in Primary Care? A... →
What do doctors do other than see patients?
The Data-Driven Life (in the NYT) →
The cult of obsessive electronic recordkeeping.
"The doctor in literature: Private life" by... →
“This is a structured, annotated and indexed anthology dealing with the personality and the behaviour of doctors, and doctor-patient relationships - ideal for medical humanities courses.”
Apple bought @Siri. Smart move. (Now if they would only buy @Simplenoteapp and @Dropbox…)
New Card Game Mixes Medical Learning With Sorcery... →
A couple of self described nerd docs have created a card game that any medical student who spends his weekends playing Magic: The Gathering will appreciate. Healing Blade, as the game is…
The men behind famous eponymous diseases →
From CNN: “Having a disease named after you is a decidedly mixed bag. On the one hand, your scientific developments are forever commemorated. On the other hand, though, you’re stuck with the…
Algorithms Manage Sleeping Patterns of Astronauts →
At the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), researchers have developed a software package to assist astronauts, as well as anyone else working on a strange sleep schedule, to…
Facebook Retroactively Makes More User Data Public →
mjn writes “In yet another backtrack from their privacy policy, Facebook has decided to retroactively move more information into the public, indexable part of profiles. The new profile parts made…
This is Spinal Tape: adhesive tape with vertebrae →
Not only does This is Spinal Tape (a roll of adhesive tape printed with vertebrae) open up some intriguing decorative and logistical possibilities; it also wins the prize for Best Product Name…
Elements of Twitter Style →
Twitter has become hugely popular and is only getting bigger. Some users don’t understand that the formatting and content of their tweets has a huge impact on how well or poorly they are received as individuals, and by extension, how likely they are to be followed.
Doctor and Patient: An Unforeseen Complication of... →
Learning to juggle computers in the exam room can have unexpected consequences for doctor-patient relations.
Eponym of the day: Moyamoya disease →
Disease of the day (via an excellent rheumatologist) — “SSV: Some Sort of Vasculitis.”
Marilyn Monroe chest X-ray going on auction →
Among the trove of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia being auctioned off this summer is an X-ray of the starlet’s chest and the couch from her psychiatrist’s office. The radiograph above, which is…
Eponym of the day: “Lambl’s excrescences” — filiform fronds occuring at sites of heart valve closure.
Heart Strings →
Thanks to the wonders of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), amazing images of the muscle fiber orientation of the left ventricle have been obtained: The image was produced using a branch…
Mobile Medicine via iPod/iPhone/iPad Apps →
New app helps the uninsured find free healthcare →
The Dogs of War: Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft →
It’s hard to grasp the breathtaking scale of the epic war between Microsoft, Google and Apple. Billions upon billions of dollars. Entire industries at stake. This is the board. These are…
Live Link to the European Air Traffic Monitor →
Some aspects of this drastically-reduced airline traffic are, by now, “expected.” No planes at all over England, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, even now Italy; usually there would be…
Double espresso over ice with espresso-infused sugar: a recipe for either an ideal weekly review or an ER visit for tachycardia. #GTD
WatchStar Wars Uncut, “The Escape”
ACCORD Study: Frequently Asked Questions (NIH) →
A Look At World Trade Center Rebuilding →
With much of the activity at Ground Zero below surface, it’s only been in recent months that passers-by have seen buildings…
The words David Foster Wallace circled in his... →
Tonight, volcanic sunsets over Europe →
To see more photos from the amazing sunsets over Europe because of the ash in the air, try an advanced search for volcanic…
Volcano in Iceland →
A volcano under a glacier in Iceland erupted Wednesday for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, spewing smoke and steam, closing a major road…
Google Unveils a 3-D New York City in Google Earth →
Why bother visiting New York, if you can do it in Google Earth without the smell of rotting fish?
If you’re considering a visit to New York City but you’d really rather be playing Grand Theft…
How much would you bid for a $10 bill? →
Facebook Friend Request from a Dying Patient (New... →
Library of Congress Acquires Entire Twitter... →
Matt Raymond from The Library of Congress: Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That’s a LOT of tweets, by the…
iPad in Healthcare: A Roundup →
It’s been a little over a week since the iPad debuted, and while some of the hype about publishing has subsided (for now) there’s still a good deal of buzz around this device’s potential in a…
How to use Google Docs Drawings for Medical Mind... →
Interview with Jay Parkinson on Big Think →
From the Archives (19 October, 2007)
Just saw a patient who relayed this story. She was buying coffee at Starbucks at Newark Airport. Two homeland security personnel were standing next to her when the suddenly glanced at each other, then at her. The radiation alarm on their hips had gone off. “Have you recently had a nuclear stress test of the heart?” they asked. “Why yes,” she answered, “…three days ago.”
