Inside the Brain
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"What happens in the brain of a person with Alzheimerâs disease? This tour explains how the brain works and how Alzheimer's affects it."
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Friday, June 17, 2005
Medical Simulation Weblog
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I found a neat new weblog called SimBlog. Associated with the Society for Medical Simulation, it appears to be edited by Jeff Taekman, formerly of Penn State and the person I came to Hershey to work with. Jeff had moved to Duke by the time I arrived, and is now the Associate Dean for Technology in Education there.
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Dear Journal Editor
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Orac has written a public letter to scientific journal editors that is a must read for anyone who has ever published (or tried to publish and been rejected--me!). The post is part of Tangled Bank XXV (Like Grand Rounds, but with an emphasis on science):
"We have again rewritten the entire manuscript from start to finish. We even changed the goddamned running head! Hopefully we have suffered enough by now to satisfy even you and your bloodthirsty reviewers. Besides the fact that we included five new figures of brand new data (with six panels each, yet), we still cannot believe that you were unable to see the merit of our work..."
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Four Drug Rep Tricks Plus One Of My Own
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Polite Dissent is a blog I just discovered thanks to Grand Rounds. He/she has the same take on some of the techniques used by drug detail people as I do:
- False agreements
- Fake Thanks
- Bring the Boss
- Appeal to Authority
I'll just add my own to this very good list: use the people around you as billboards. It seems the people who make a paralytic called rocuronium have dropped off a thousand or so yellow operating room caps that say "Roc Solid" (Roc is our abbreviation for rocuronium, aka Zemuron). Many OR nurses and techs are now wearing these caps. My reaction? Even if I was planning on using rocuronium for the case, I'll draw up some tasty vecuronium or cis-atracurium instead. And besides, the vecuronium people gave me a nice nerve stimulator once...
Grand Rounds XXV: Respectful Insolence
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Grand Rounds XXV is up at Respectful Insolence. Just don't have a mouth full of coffee when you read it.
Saturday, February 19, 2005
MayoClinic.com Anesthesia Information
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James T. Li, M.D. has written two 'Ask a Specialist' pieces at MayoClinic.com that are relevant to patients having anesthesia. I've read them both and do hereby confer upon them the WakingUpCosts seal of approval:
Monday, February 14, 2005
Grand Rounds XXI At Sumer's Radiology Site
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Tuesday, February 8, 2005
medmusings: Grand Rounds XX
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All the way from Singapore......medmusings: Grand Rounds XX
Friday, February 4, 2005
Site Update: Trackbacks Are Live
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My content management system, Conversant, now fully support Trackback as detailed here. To see the trackbacks, you'll have to look at the 'discuss' link that follows each post.
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Caffeine, Why Do We Love Thee?
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Saturday, January 22, 2005
Unusual Venue for a Tribute: iTunes Music Store
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I ran across an unusual, but moving, tribute from a son to his mother. I say 'unusual' mainly because of where I found it--on the iTunes Music Store. I'll post it below for you to consider:
For those of you with iTunes, you can see the iMix.
