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Medical Pastiche | 16th Apr 2008

I learned that a friend of mine at Rush, Peter Zavislak, has a few websites. The most notable is his current work, Medical Pastiche. I don’t encourage you to read it though, or you’ll quickly figure out how silly my blog is. (Just kidding, check it out even though it makes me [...]

Portable Electronic Medical Records | 27th Mar 2008

I have been meaning to do a long post on EMRs for a while. After reading a recent post on Ars Technica on this issue, I decided this is as good of a time as any.
Although Mr. Gitlin readily admits that EMRs are unlikely to solve the problems of “inefficiency” in the medical community [...]

Futile care | 19th Mar 2008

PandaBear made a good point about the incentives for terminating futile medical care:
My third point is that there is no incentive at any level of the medical industry to use a little common sense. At the high end, physicians risk severe legal consequences for not doing exactly what the family wants no matter how [...]

Blocking Tumor Growth | 16th Mar 2008

Researchers at HMS have discovered an important mechanism by which cancer cells can grow so quickly (via /.). They’re hoping to use this information clinically to significantly reduce the growth rate of cancer cells, making them much easier to manage. Cool.

Angry Resident | 11th Mar 2008

My friend Kiyoshi made a site called AngryJournalist as a place for journalists to rant anonymously where others could read it. Someone has apparently ported this for physicians in training: AngryResident. It wasn’t by me, but no doubt only because I’ve got another 3 years before I get to worry about ranting [...]

The premise of education | 11th Feb 2008

I read a very interesting article today, linked from an article on ifacethoughts (a blog I read). The article itself is about undergraduate Computer Science majors, but I felt like the premise goes far beyond that specific example. In reality it speaks to the terms of higher education in general, and I’m going [...]

The cost of medical education | 8th Feb 2008

Hi. I know most people think that doctors make a lot of money and therefore don’t need to worry about the cost of their education. However, in reality I (like most med students) am likely going to graduate over $200,000 in debt. Your reaction may be “yeah but you’ll be making the [...]

MMR vaccine doesn’t cause autism | 6th Feb 2008

Finally, someone proved it. Now will all these people pipe down? Heh, probably not.

Growing Organs? | 24th Jan 2008

Growing living organs in a lab?

Panda on public health policy | 12th Dec 2007

In my break from studying, I found myself wandering through Panda Bear’s archives. I came across this post from June, which I found to be particularly insightful. And another.

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