Best of Medical Blogs-weekly review and blog carnival

The "Best of Medical Blogs-weekly review and blog carnival" is a weekly summary of the best medical Blog post. Feel free to send your suggestions to my email at clinicalcases@gmail.com. Best medical blog (BMB) is published every Tuesday, just like the old Grand Rounds.

Cultivate followers on social media, if you want to communicate science

From the blog science Soapbox http://goo.gl/cPQq1 and medical Museion http://goo.gl/QmEU7:

Social media platforms can be very limiting. For example, you can define genotype and Phenotype in 140 characters or less? If you want to use social media to communicate effectively, necessary for readers to drive somewhere.

Write a blog gives substance to your social media presence. You have the opportunity to talk about science in a meaningful way, which ultimately helps people better understand the world around them. Answering these questions is probably because you have first in science. Don't be afraid to share what you've discovered.

Are the doctors are afraid to be wrong?

From blogging to surgeon skeptical Scalpel: «I once did some work as an expert on a malpractice insurance company. Rarely there is a case that doesn't have many opportunities for second-guessing. When you know the outcome, you can always find something in the medical record that could have been done differently.

The current security climate and medicolegal patient creates a feeling among doctors that any mistake is to be extensively examined. This results in a similar situation to an athlete trying not to lose a game instead of trying to win. For those of you unfamiliar with the sport, that the strategy usually fails. Fear of being wrong can lead to excessive test too. " http://goo.gl/FWTbC

When did stop teaching the basics for residents and medical students?

Dr.% of the blog Rants Medical db loves ACGME competency 6 just fine, but also suggests a simple list of http://goo.gl/2sqip:

1. Take a complete history, relevant, accurate
2. make a proper physical examination
3. order the appropriate laboratory tests and interpret them completely and accurately
4. order the correct images and interventions and interpret them

Happy 5th Blogiversary!

Former plastic surgeon and blogger extraordinaire Dr. Bates of Ramona reflects on his 5 years of blogging and the medical community blogging. http://goo.gl/0EVJW

As blogging has helped me academically. According to Dr. cent: why I write almost everyday, my writing has improved dramatically http://goo.gl/GLNsL

Medicine-Stanford University Grand Rounds and social media

Graham Walker was one of the first medical blogger. Went on a break during his residency in emergency medicine (EM) and now has found new reasons to blog like a EM attending at Stanford University medical center. This is his talk on social media and medicine at Stanford University Grand Rounds: http://youtu.be/qtkggenLmlE

Dr. Walker: "my speech on the dissemination of medical information over time, as the internet and social networking are changing medication, how to use digital tools to be a better doctor at the bedside."

Here is the list of Graham of digital tools to improve the specialty.

Paper-based charts: how soon we forget http://goo.gl/Vspmp -Dr. Wes: suddenly, don't miss the paper charts anymore.

Dr. Wes: is how bad the cardiovascular risk of azithromycin? http://goo.gl/yVgfo -"Big data" related to "big mistake"?

Comments from Twitter:

Seth Trueger @ MDaware: some great stuff in there

Skeptical scalpel @ Skepticscalpel: thanks for including me.

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Best of Medical Blogs-weekly review and blog carnival

The "Best of Medical Blogs-weekly review and blog carnival" is a weekly summary of the best medical Blog post. Feel free to send your suggestions to my email at clinicalcases@gmail.com. Best medical blog (BMB) is published every Tuesday, just like the old Grand Rounds.

Cultivate followers on social media, if you want to communicate science

From the blog science Soapbox http://goo.gl/cPQq1 and medical Museion http://goo.gl/QmEU7:

Social media platforms can be very limiting. For example, you can define genotype and Phenotype in 140 characters or less? If you want to use social media to communicate effectively, necessary for readers to drive somewhere.

Write a blog gives substance to your social media presence. You have the opportunity to talk about science in a meaningful way, which ultimately helps people better understand the world around them. Answering these questions is probably because you have first in science. Don't be afraid to share what you've discovered.

Are the doctors are afraid to be wrong?

From blogging to surgeon skeptical Scalpel: «I once did some work as an expert on a malpractice insurance company. Rarely there is a case that doesn't have many opportunities for second-guessing. When you know the outcome, you can always find something in the medical record that could have been done differently.

The current security climate and medicolegal patient creates a feeling among doctors that any mistake is to be extensively examined. This results in a similar situation to an athlete trying not to lose a game instead of trying to win. For those of you unfamiliar with the sport, that the strategy usually fails. Fear of being wrong can lead to excessive test too. " http://goo.gl/FWTbC

When did stop teaching the basics for residents and medical students?

Dr.% of the blog Rants Medical db loves ACGME competency 6 just fine, but also suggests a simple list of http://goo.gl/2sqip:

1. Take a complete history, relevant, accurate
2. make a proper physical examination
3. order the appropriate laboratory tests and interpret them completely and accurately
4. order the correct images and interventions and interpret them

Happy 5th Blogiversary!

Former plastic surgeon and blogger extraordinaire Dr. Bates of Ramona reflects on his 5 years of blogging and the medical community blogging. http://goo.gl/0EVJW

As blogging has helped me academically. According to Dr. cent: why I write almost everyday, my writing has improved dramatically http://goo.gl/GLNsL

Medicine-Stanford University Grand Rounds and social media

Graham Walker was one of the first medical blogger. Went on a break during his residency in emergency medicine (EM) and now has found new reasons to blog like a EM attending at Stanford University medical center. This is his talk on social media and medicine at Stanford University Grand Rounds: http://youtu.be/qtkggenLmlE

Dr. Walker: "my speech on the dissemination of medical information over time, as the internet and social networking are changing medication, how to use digital tools to be a better doctor at the bedside."

Here is the list of Graham of digital tools to improve the specialty.

Paper-based charts: how soon we forget http://goo.gl/Vspmp -Dr. Wes: suddenly, don't miss the paper charts anymore.

Dr. Wes: is how bad the cardiovascular risk of azithromycin? http://goo.gl/yVgfo -"Big data" related to "big mistake"?

Comments from Twitter:

Seth Trueger @ MDaware: some great stuff in there

Skeptical scalpel @ Skepticscalpel: thanks for including me.

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Scanning the news about concerns over explosion in medical imaging scans

In case you missed them, many stories reported on a new analysis of the explosion in the use of CT, MRI and other advanced imaging methods.

The Los Angeles Times: “Use of imaging tests soars, raising questions on radiation risk.”

Researchers looked at “data from patients enrolled in six large health maintenance organizations,” and “found that doctors ordered CT scans at a rate of 149 tests per 1,000 patients in 2010, nearly triple the rate of 52 scans per 1,000 patients in 1996.” Meanwhile, “MRI use nearly quadrupled during the period, jumping from 17 to 65 tests per 1,000 patients.”

The New York Times: “Radiation Concerns Rise With Patients’ Exposure.”

 ”The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, says that while advanced medical imaging has undoubted benefits, allowing problems to be diagnosed earlier and more accurately, its value needs to be weighed against potential harms, which include a small cancer risk from the radiation.”

WebMD: “CT Scan Rates Tripled at HMOs in the Last 15 Years, Doubling Radiation Exposure to Patients”

Reuters:

The average radiation dose from a chest CT scan is 7 millisieverts, compared with 0.1 millisieverts for a typical chest X-ray, according to the American College of Radiology. But those levels can vary widely by machine, with some low-dose scanners delivering as little as 1.5 millisieverts for a chest CT, and some older machines delivering far higher doses.

Researchers say a radiation dose of 50 millisieverts starts to raise concerns about human health, and a dose of 100 millisieverts is thought to raise the risk of cancer.

MedPage Today: “Expanding indications, patient and physician demand, medical uncertainty, and defensive medicine likely all contributed to those trends.”

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Scanning the news about concerns over explosion in medical imaging scans

In case you missed them, many stories reported on a new analysis of the explosion in the use of CT, MRI and other advanced imaging methods.

The Los Angeles Times: “Use of imaging tests soars, raising questions on radiation risk.”

Researchers looked at “data from patients enrolled in six large health maintenance organizations,” and “found that doctors ordered CT scans at a rate of 149 tests per 1,000 patients in 2010, nearly triple the rate of 52 scans per 1,000 patients in 1996.” Meanwhile, “MRI use nearly quadrupled during the period, jumping from 17 to 65 tests per 1,000 patients.”

The New York Times: “Radiation Concerns Rise With Patients’ Exposure.”

 ”The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, says that while advanced medical imaging has undoubted benefits, allowing problems to be diagnosed earlier and more accurately, its value needs to be weighed against potential harms, which include a small cancer risk from the radiation.”

WebMD: “CT Scan Rates Tripled at HMOs in the Last 15 Years, Doubling Radiation Exposure to Patients”

Reuters:

The average radiation dose from a chest CT scan is 7 millisieverts, compared with 0.1 millisieverts for a typical chest X-ray, according to the American College of Radiology. But those levels can vary widely by machine, with some low-dose scanners delivering as little as 1.5 millisieverts for a chest CT, and some older machines delivering far higher doses.

Researchers say a radiation dose of 50 millisieverts starts to raise concerns about human health, and a dose of 100 millisieverts is thought to raise the risk of cancer.

MedPage Today: “Expanding indications, patient and physician demand, medical uncertainty, and defensive medicine likely all contributed to those trends.”

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Boston Globe opinion piece on decision aids for dying patients on end-of-life care options

Angelo Volandes, MD, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, wrote an opinion piece published in the Boston Globe today.  He tells the story of a patient dying of cancer, with whom he brought up the topic of end-of-life care options:

“For the next hour I introduced a vocabulary as foreign to her as spondee and trochee were to me. Life-prolonging treatment and CPR, ventilators and intubation, DNR and DNI — terms that she would need to learn quickly. Unfortunately, I was trying to teach her a new lexicon in the midst of the haze of nausea and hospitalization.

Dazed and confused, they looked at me blankly. Words often fail us in medicine. How could I explain these abstract ideas and treatments? Most patients think hospitals and medical interventions look like what they see on television where most survive CPR beautifully; the truth is most people with advanced incurable cancer do not do well with these interventions and often suffer at the end of life.

Finally, I tried a different approach. “Do you mind if we take a walk through the ICU?” I said.

If words failed me, perhaps seeing the intensive care unit would help. Seated in a wheelchair …Helen got a tour of the ICU, where she saw an intubated patient on a ventilator and a patient having a large intravenous line placed. Her decision-making would be informed by what she saw, instead of having to imagine what my terms really meant.

When we arrived back at her room, she looked at me and said, “Words, words, words. . . Angelo, I understood every word that you said — CPR and breathing machines, but I had no idea that is what you meant.”

I was reprimanded by the ICU staff for bringing Helen and her husband on that tour, but I was quickly forgiven. Evidently, many felt, like me, that patients deserve to be educated in order to make informed decisions about end-of-life choices.”

That was years ago when he was a medical resident.

Today, he goes on to explain, he and others use video decision aids to help people think about care options.

View the original article here

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Boston Globe opinion piece on decision aids for dying patients on end-of-life care options

Angelo Volandes, MD, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, wrote an opinion piece published in the Boston Globe today.  He tells the story of a patient dying of cancer, with whom he brought up the topic of end-of-life care options:

“For the next hour I introduced a vocabulary as foreign to her as spondee and trochee were to me. Life-prolonging treatment and CPR, ventilators and intubation, DNR and DNI — terms that she would need to learn quickly. Unfortunately, I was trying to teach her a new lexicon in the midst of the haze of nausea and hospitalization.

Dazed and confused, they looked at me blankly. Words often fail us in medicine. How could I explain these abstract ideas and treatments? Most patients think hospitals and medical interventions look like what they see on television where most survive CPR beautifully; the truth is most people with advanced incurable cancer do not do well with these interventions and often suffer at the end of life.

Finally, I tried a different approach. “Do you mind if we take a walk through the ICU?” I said.

If words failed me, perhaps seeing the intensive care unit would help. Seated in a wheelchair …Helen got a tour of the ICU, where she saw an intubated patient on a ventilator and a patient having a large intravenous line placed. Her decision-making would be informed by what she saw, instead of having to imagine what my terms really meant.

When we arrived back at her room, she looked at me and said, “Words, words, words. . . Angelo, I understood every word that you said — CPR and breathing machines, but I had no idea that is what you meant.”

I was reprimanded by the ICU staff for bringing Helen and her husband on that tour, but I was quickly forgiven. Evidently, many felt, like me, that patients deserve to be educated in order to make informed decisions about end-of-life choices.”

That was years ago when he was a medical resident.

Today, he goes on to explain, he and others use video decision aids to help people think about care options.

View the original article here

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When Practitioners Harm More Than Heal

“Missing The Target: When Practitioners Harm More Than Heal” is the title of a two-day conference in Washington this week (June 14-15) hosted by PharmedOut.org at Georgetown.  This is their third annual conference – this one focusing on how patient harms may result from industry promotions.

The full agenda and abstracts are now available online.

Some of the speakers:

Rita Redberg, M.D., M.Sc., Archives of Internal Medicine Editor-in-Chief; professor of medicine, University of California, San FranciscoCarl Elliott, M.D. Ph.D., author, White Coat, Black Hat; professor, University of Minnesota’s Center for BioethicsKay Dickersin, Ph.D., director, Center for Clinical Trials, Johns Hopkins Center for Global HealthJulie Taitsman, M.D., J.D., chief medical officer, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesSharon Treat, J.D., executive director, National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug PricesThomas M. Burton, Pulitzer Prize winning-journalist, The Wall Street JournalShannon Brownlee, M.S., author, Overtreated; acting director, New America Foundation Health Policy ProgramSusan Wood, PhD, George Washington UniversitySean Flynn, JD, American UniversityJoel Lexchin, MD, York UniversityBarbara Mintzes, Therapeutics Initiative

Some of the topics:

 Marketing of antipsychotic medications and other drugs Potential health risks of CT scans and other medical devicesLegislative and regulatory updates and solutions The role of industry, media, and payers in informing and protecting patientsAre Medical Devices and Drugs Adequately Regulated?Protecting Patients in Industry-Funded TrialsPharmaceutical Marketing and Adverse Health Outcomes

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When Practitioners Harm More Than Heal

“Missing The Target: When Practitioners Harm More Than Heal” is the title of a two-day conference in Washington this week (June 14-15) hosted by PharmedOut.org at Georgetown.  This is their third annual conference – this one focusing on how patient harms may result from industry promotions.

The full agenda and abstracts are now available online.

Some of the speakers:

Rita Redberg, M.D., M.Sc., Archives of Internal Medicine Editor-in-Chief; professor of medicine, University of California, San FranciscoCarl Elliott, M.D. Ph.D., author, White Coat, Black Hat; professor, University of Minnesota’s Center for BioethicsKay Dickersin, Ph.D., director, Center for Clinical Trials, Johns Hopkins Center for Global HealthJulie Taitsman, M.D., J.D., chief medical officer, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesSharon Treat, J.D., executive director, National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug PricesThomas M. Burton, Pulitzer Prize winning-journalist, The Wall Street JournalShannon Brownlee, M.S., author, Overtreated; acting director, New America Foundation Health Policy ProgramSusan Wood, PhD, George Washington UniversitySean Flynn, JD, American UniversityJoel Lexchin, MD, York UniversityBarbara Mintzes, Therapeutics Initiative

Some of the topics:

 Marketing of antipsychotic medications and other drugs Potential health risks of CT scans and other medical devicesLegislative and regulatory updates and solutions The role of industry, media, and payers in informing and protecting patientsAre Medical Devices and Drugs Adequately Regulated?Protecting Patients in Industry-Funded TrialsPharmaceutical Marketing and Adverse Health Outcomes

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Surgeon folds and throws the paper airplane using da Vinci Robot (video)

From Swedish Hospital YouTube channel: Dr. James Porter, Medical Director of robotic surgery at Swedish folds a paper airplane with the da Vinci robot to demonstrate how this device gives surgeons greater surgical precision and dexterity over existing approaches.

With over 600,000 views, this video brings no doubt good advertisement to the hospital.

However, the robot costs on average $ 1.30 million, in addition to several hundred thousand dollars in annual maintenance fees. Surgical procedures performed with the robot takes more than traditional ones. Critics say that hospitals have a hard time recovering the cost and that most clinical data does not support the claim of improved results for the patient.

The manufacturer, Intuitive Surgical has sold more than 1,000 units worldwide.

References:

Prepping robots to perform surgery, the New York Times, May 4, 2008.
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Comments from Twitter:

Meenakshi Budhraja @ gastromom: Cool!

Westby Fisher, MD @ doctorwes: surgeon folds throwaway paper airplane using da Vinci Robot (video) bit.ly/KG2EG6-fast, no manual?

PDara MD, FACP @ JediPD: da Vinci good for that

Skeptical scalpel @ Skepticscalpel: Finally a use. Maybe the planes might have hospital's logo on them. Folding a paper airplane. Amazing feat of a surgical robot? Don't think. My blog. is.gd/6tBcZp-folding a paper airplane. Amazing feat from the surgical robot?  http://goo.gl/cz7lC

Ravi Pellini @ ravrav0: surgical robot: small folding paper airplanes-CHECK. Actually improve clinical results-TBD. bit.ly/LEp3jg # medtech

Jenaro Fdez-Valencia @ JenaroFV_MD: after all ... does not fly! If he did a boat, that would work. Can try?

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Surgeon folds and throws the paper airplane using da Vinci Robot (video)

From Swedish Hospital YouTube channel: Dr. James Porter, Medical Director of robotic surgery at Swedish folds a paper airplane with the da Vinci robot to demonstrate how this device gives surgeons greater surgical precision and dexterity over existing approaches.

With over 600,000 views, this video brings no doubt good advertisement to the hospital.

However, the robot costs on average $ 1.30 million, in addition to several hundred thousand dollars in annual maintenance fees. Surgical procedures performed with the robot takes more than traditional ones. Critics say that hospitals have a hard time recovering the cost and that most clinical data does not support the claim of improved results for the patient.

The manufacturer, Intuitive Surgical has sold more than 1,000 units worldwide.

References:

Prepping robots to perform surgery, the New York Times, May 4, 2008.
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Comments from Twitter:

Meenakshi Budhraja @ gastromom: Cool!

Westby Fisher, MD @ doctorwes: surgeon folds throwaway paper airplane using da Vinci Robot (video) bit.ly/KG2EG6-fast, no manual?

PDara MD, FACP @ JediPD: da Vinci good for that

Skeptical scalpel @ Skepticscalpel: Finally a use. Maybe the planes might have hospital's logo on them. Folding a paper airplane. Amazing feat of a surgical robot? Don't think. My blog. is.gd/6tBcZp-folding a paper airplane. Amazing feat from the surgical robot?  http://goo.gl/cz7lC

Ravi Pellini @ ravrav0: surgical robot: small folding paper airplanes-CHECK. Actually improve clinical results-TBD. bit.ly/LEp3jg # medtech

Jenaro Fdez-Valencia @ JenaroFV_MD: after all ... does not fly! If he did a boat, that would work. Can try?

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Medical Arms Race tale

Kudos to Gregory Warner of Marketplace and colleagues for creating this video.  I thought I’d posted this months ago, but apparently forgot.  Never too late.

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Medical Arms Race tale

Kudos to Gregory Warner of Marketplace and colleagues for creating this video.  I thought I’d posted this months ago, but apparently forgot.  Never too late.

View the original article here

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Best of Medical Blog - recensione settimanale e blog carnevale

The "Best of Medical Blogs-weekly review and blog carnival" is a weekly summary of the best medical Blog post. Feel free to send your suggestions to my email at clinicalcases@gmail.com. Best medical blog (BMB) is published every Tuesday, just like the old Grand Rounds.

Cultivate followers on social media, if you want to communicate science

From the blog science Soapbox http://goo.gl/cPQq1 and medical Museion http://goo.gl/QmEU7:

Social media platforms can be very limiting. For example, you can define genotype and Phenotype in 140 characters or less? If you want to use social media to communicate effectively, necessary for readers to drive somewhere.

Write a blog gives substance to your social media presence. You have the opportunity to talk about science in a meaningful way, which ultimately helps people better understand the world around them. Answering these questions is probably because you have first in science. Don't be afraid to share what you've discovered.

Are the doctors are afraid to be wrong?

From blogging to surgeon skeptical Scalpel: «I once did some work as an expert on a malpractice insurance company. Rarely there is a case that doesn't have many opportunities for second-guessing. When you know the outcome, you can always find something in the medical record that could have been done differently.

The current security climate and medicolegal patient creates a feeling among doctors that any mistake is to be extensively examined. This results in a similar situation to an athlete trying not to lose a game instead of trying to win. For those of you unfamiliar with the sport, that the strategy usually fails. Fear of being wrong can lead to excessive test too. " http://goo.gl/FWTbC

When did stop teaching the basics for residents and medical students?

Dr.% of the blog Rants Medical db loves ACGME competency 6 just fine, but also suggests a simple list of http://goo.gl/2sqip:

1. Take a complete history, relevant, accurate
2. make a proper physical examination
3. order the appropriate laboratory tests and interpret them completely and accurately
4. order the correct images and interventions and interpret them

Happy 5th Blogiversary!

Former plastic surgeon and blogger extraordinaire Dr. Bates of Ramona reflects on his 5 years of blogging and the medical community blogging. http://goo.gl/0EVJW

As blogging has helped me academically. According to Dr. cent: why I write almost everyday, my writing has improved dramatically http://goo.gl/GLNsL

Medicine-Stanford University Grand Rounds and social media

Graham Walker was one of the first medical blogger. Went on a break during his residency in emergency medicine (EM) and now has found new reasons to blog like a EM attending at Stanford University medical center. This is his talk on social media and medicine at Stanford University Grand Rounds: http://youtu.be/qtkggenLmlE

Dr. Walker: "my speech on the dissemination of medical information over time, as the internet and social networking are changing medication, how to use digital tools to be a better doctor at the bedside."

Here is the list of Graham of digital tools to improve the specialty.

Paper-based charts: how soon we forget http://goo.gl/Vspmp -Dr. Wes: suddenly, don't miss the paper charts anymore.

Dr. Wes: is how bad the cardiovascular risk of azithromycin? http://goo.gl/yVgfo -"Big data" related to "big mistake"?

Comments from Twitter:

Seth Trueger @ MDaware: some great stuff in there

Skeptical scalpel @ Skepticscalpel: thanks for including me.

View the original article here

Read More

Best of Medical Blog - recensione settimanale e blog carnevale

The "Best of Medical Blogs-weekly review and blog carnival" is a weekly summary of the best medical Blog post. Feel free to send your suggestions to my email at clinicalcases@gmail.com. Best medical blog (BMB) is published every Tuesday, just like the old Grand Rounds.

Cultivate followers on social media, if you want to communicate science

From the blog science Soapbox http://goo.gl/cPQq1 and medical Museion http://goo.gl/QmEU7:

Social media platforms can be very limiting. For example, you can define genotype and Phenotype in 140 characters or less? If you want to use social media to communicate effectively, necessary for readers to drive somewhere.

Write a blog gives substance to your social media presence. You have the opportunity to talk about science in a meaningful way, which ultimately helps people better understand the world around them. Answering these questions is probably because you have first in science. Don't be afraid to share what you've discovered.

Are the doctors are afraid to be wrong?

From blogging to surgeon skeptical Scalpel: «I once did some work as an expert on a malpractice insurance company. Rarely there is a case that doesn't have many opportunities for second-guessing. When you know the outcome, you can always find something in the medical record that could have been done differently.

The current security climate and medicolegal patient creates a feeling among doctors that any mistake is to be extensively examined. This results in a similar situation to an athlete trying not to lose a game instead of trying to win. For those of you unfamiliar with the sport, that the strategy usually fails. Fear of being wrong can lead to excessive test too. " http://goo.gl/FWTbC

When did stop teaching the basics for residents and medical students?

Dr.% of the blog Rants Medical db loves ACGME competency 6 just fine, but also suggests a simple list of http://goo.gl/2sqip:

1. Take a complete history, relevant, accurate
2. make a proper physical examination
3. order the appropriate laboratory tests and interpret them completely and accurately
4. order the correct images and interventions and interpret them

Happy 5th Blogiversary!

Former plastic surgeon and blogger extraordinaire Dr. Bates of Ramona reflects on his 5 years of blogging and the medical community blogging. http://goo.gl/0EVJW

As blogging has helped me academically. According to Dr. cent: why I write almost everyday, my writing has improved dramatically http://goo.gl/GLNsL

Medicine-Stanford University Grand Rounds and social media

Graham Walker was one of the first medical blogger. Went on a break during his residency in emergency medicine (EM) and now has found new reasons to blog like a EM attending at Stanford University medical center. This is his talk on social media and medicine at Stanford University Grand Rounds: http://youtu.be/qtkggenLmlE

Dr. Walker: "my speech on the dissemination of medical information over time, as the internet and social networking are changing medication, how to use digital tools to be a better doctor at the bedside."

Here is the list of Graham of digital tools to improve the specialty.

Paper-based charts: how soon we forget http://goo.gl/Vspmp -Dr. Wes: suddenly, don't miss the paper charts anymore.

Dr. Wes: is how bad the cardiovascular risk of azithromycin? http://goo.gl/yVgfo -"Big data" related to "big mistake"?

Comments from Twitter:

Seth Trueger @ MDaware: some great stuff in there

Skeptical scalpel @ Skepticscalpel: thanks for including me.

View the original article here

Read More