Archive for June, 2007
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Women in Medicine
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Dear reader: you probably think this is going to be some sexist rant - well, worry not - and what’s wrong with being sexy?
Back in the Holocene Epoch, when I was a med student, women made up about 10% of the class. Today, the total medical student population is about 55% women and 45% men […]
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Whither the Generalist?
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Panda Bear, MD had a very interesting post on primary care medicine up on his blog recently. He is currently an EM Resident after spending a frustrating year training to be a Family Practitioner. He also brings his characteristic USMC sense to the subject of chiropractic ‘medicine’, but I will not comment on that here […]
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Soothsayer
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Here is the future of medicine, 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon style:
1. Universal health care becomes law, is deemed a “right”, and government becomes even more involved.
2. More people pour into the system, be it clinics or ED’s, because it is “free”, even though it really is already “free” to due unfunded federal mandates.
3. The […]
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A Gift from the Onion
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Let’s take a break from the daily macabre comedy that is modern medicine and get a good laugh courtesy of The Onion.
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Notes from the Underground Morgue
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(Editors note: For those of you new to this blog ETOTHEIPI, the contributor writing here, is a board certified pathologist who has performed many autopsies. The autopsy report from the current case in L.A. which is generating so much press can be found here)
Here are some notes on the autopsy report from the previous post […]
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Berserk
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A screaming madman was brought into bed 6 the other day. Even though we are used to screams in the E.D. this was different. This was not a schizophrenic man’s scream, it was not a drunk man’s scream, it was not a coked out man’s scream ,it was the scream of a man with a […]
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A Script for the Sopranos (courtesy of HIPPA)
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HIPPA, which stands for something, is a federal law which attempts to protect patient privacy and confidentiality. Now it’s not as if it wasn’t protected before, it’s just that with paperwork in trash cans, phone calls inquiring about patients, and talk in hallways and elevators there was a concern, and no doubt, some real instances, […]
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Emergency Bleeding
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This is terrible. We will never hear the whole story. A “Los Angeles Hospital” is in huge shit trouble now and this poor woman is dead. The story is a bit confusing because she is placed both in “the hospital lobby” (in which case a “Code Blue” should have been called and doctors and nurses […]
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The Deuce?
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So is it just me, or is naming your colostomy bag weird? Does naming it “Blake” make it less weird? I thought not. I spend ten minutes in the room talking to some gal about her abdominal pain and she keeps talking about “Blake” and how often he gets “changed” and I finally had to […]
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Back From the Desert
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Well, the conference is over. Turns out the place was actually a large city, with lots of lights and people. Memorial weekend is one of the busiest out there, and the posers were out in full force. I did feel very old at a couple of the venues, especially Hard Rock poolside. Got to see […]
