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Mission Impossible: treating chest pain in a third world setting
I recently had the misfortune of assisting my father-in-law get care for chest pain -- in the arrival hall of a foreign airport. Bottomline: don't get sick in a 3rd world country.
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Doctors Report Feast and Famine For Flu Vaccine
NPR covers physicians' frustration that they haven't received their flu vaccine supply yet, and patients are clamoring for it. They quote a large supplier, Mark Mlotek of Henry Schein, Inc. as stating, "Will there be Wal-Marts that have it and doc...
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Twitter Dispatches from the New England Journal of Medicine's Horizons Conference
This weekend the New England Journal of Medicine's Horizons conference brought together the editors of the journal with a group of medical students and trainees, including two prominent medical bloggers, Dr. Ves Dimov from Clinical Cases and Image...
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Post-Surgery Rounding by Robots as Good as Rounding by Actual Humans
A recent study suggested "telerounding" by robots on surgical patients may be just as good as face-to-face rounding by attending physicians.
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Mobile Medical Devices During Disaster: Water Contamination
The follwing is third in a series of articles reviewing FDA guidelines on using Medical Devices in a disaster, with my comments in italics from my reflections about volunteering in medical clinics following Katrina. Water Contamination :
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I'm Writing a Book with the American College of Physicians
The ink on the contract is drying, so I'm finally able to make this announcement: I'm writing a book with the American College of Physicians. This means that I'm humbly joining the ranks of other medical bloggers with book deals based on their blo...
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Children's Health First Aid Kits
A friend of mine recently asked what I'd put in my children's first aid kit. Here's what I have (or want to have in it).
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Take a Contract out on Yourself on StickK.com
if you don’t meet your goals. Instead, StickK is a system — designed by a group of Yale economists — that allows you to lose real money if you don’t achieve a certain target, like shedding 10 pounds, quitting smoking, or exercising daily. Accordin...
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Best Tech Medicine Posts of 2008 (Part 2)
What follows is the result of a brief brainstorming session about potential applications of the iPhone for doctors. Some have already been announced for the iPhone, are available on other platforms, or are currently in development. Let's see how m...
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Review of Epocrates on the iPhone
A few weeks ago, I cataloged 22 types of medical applications we might see released for Apple’s iPhone. Number 1? A drug database. And on July 11th — along with the opening of the “ App Store ” on iTunes — Epocrates Rx, the free mobile drug refere...
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