What Medical Blogs are Read at the National Library of Medicine?

In this post, I discussed Citing Medicine: the second edition of the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health's "Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers," which included a section on how to cite blogs (and other sources of information on the Internet).

To the amusement of a number of medical bloggers, the "examples of citations to blogs" includes many carefully constructed references to some prominent (and not so prominent) blogs. The list -- to the eye of someone who reads blogs -- was not created randomly, and several people have wondered whether it represents the reading list from someone at the National Library of Medicine.

In order of appearance, the following is a complete list of blogs that were cited. Some of these blogs I read regularly; some I haven't read in a long time; and some blogs I would have never discovered if not for this list.

• Bioethics Discussion Blog
• The Health Care Blog
• Kidney Notes
• CAMLAW: complementary and alternative medicine law blog
• Nursing Studio
• Medgadget
• CodeBlueBlog
• HealthNex: IBMers and friends on networked, patient-centric healthcare
• Pharyngula
• HEALTH BLOG: WSJ's blog on health and the business of health
• AARP Issues Blog
• Schwitzer health news blog
• Diabetes Mine: a gold mine of straight talk and encouragement for people living with diabetes
• PHARMALOT
• blogborygmi: a digest of developments in the life of an emergency medicine resident
• eHealth: a blog devoted to ehealth and healthcare information technologyScalpel or Sword?
• TechCrunch: explorons le Web 2.0
• O INTERNO: technologia e anesthesia
• Blog de Historia de la medicina
• RUNNING A HOSPITAL
• Surgeonsblog
• Kevin, M.D.: medical Weblog
• Future Scenarios for Health IT
• Family Medicine Notes
• The DDIR's COI Blog
• Director's Blog (CDC)
• MAeHC Blog