Browsing the ‘Medicine’ Category
Fallacies in Conservative Logic | 15th Sep 2008
I have to say that I find this article rather appalling [Sorry, Peter]. Let’s be real here for a moment. How can anyone even consider that argument poignant? Personally, I don’t care what the reasoning was for Palin or her daughter’s decision to keep their babies. The point is that both of them were free [...]
Chemical Party | 22nd Aug 2008
Learn the principles of chemistry with the Chemical Party video [hat tip Peter Srinu].
Disease-specific Stem Cells | 14th Aug 2008
A recent post on Ars Technica explains how researchers are converting adult stem cells from patients with certain diseases into embryonic stem cells. This will hopefully make studying the cellular basis of diseases like Parkinson’s easier by providing a virtually unlimited supply of tissue, which was previously difficult to come by. This technique was developed [...]
The Inner Life of a Cell | 11th Aug 2008
Harvard made a great video called The Inner Life of a Cell a couple of years ago using some great computer graphics [hat tip Sadie]. It tells a brief story of the mechanism of inflammation being activated in a leukocyte. It was put to some great music by Studio Daily. I highly recommend you check [...]
Summer Research | 8th Jul 2008
I’ve started a new research project this summer in Marcello Del Carlo‘s lab. Dr. Del Carlo is a new faculty member at Rush in the Department of Biochemistry. Our lab is affiliated with a clinical urologist faculty and we’re researching a urological disease called Peyronie’s Disease (PD) [Warning: male nudity]. From a biochemical perspective, we’re [...]
Panda Throws in the Towel | 15th May 2008
Well after years of writing, it appears that Panda Bear, M.D. is throwing in the towel on his blog. His was one of the few blogs I read regularly, and it’s one that no doubt has left an impact on my past and future as a physician. He says that he’ll be working on a [...]
Enjoying the difference | 24th Apr 2008
This is a great article about the difference in Linux that I’ve read a couple of times. I thought it would be appropriate to share with it being Ubuntu Day. Linux is different. Enjoy the difference.
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 look bad!). Why [...]
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 [...]
I'm Jonathan Blackhall, a 4th year medical student at RMC. This is my blog, where I ramble about technology, medicine, free software, and other random stuff. 
