February 2012
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My first case report is finally published! →
And I have four + more to go! Kinda exciting.
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January 2012
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Go Ahead and Live in Sin! Science Says It’s Okay →
There are plenty of nice reasons to get married, but increasingly the basic experience of being married doesn’t seem all that different from simply living together without ever making it legal—or living in sin, as our grandmothers like to call it. Now there’s some new research that proves that the line between marriage and cohabitation has been blurred to such an extent that...
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How (Not) to Communicate New Scientific... →
“In 1983, at the Urodynamics Society meeting in Las Vegas, Professor G.S. Brindley first announced to the world his experiments on self-injection with papaverine to induce a penile erection. This was the first time that an effective medical therapy for erectile dysfunction (ED) was described, and was a historic development in the management of ED. The way in which this information was...
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Top 10 Reasons to Become a Doctor →
On Medscape’s Differential, one of the medical student bloggers posted a great story responding to a former pre-medical student advisor and trained physician’s article, “The Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Not Go To Medical School…and the Single Reason You Should,” who has chosen not to practice medicine.
I think he really has some great points. There were and are...
A Bit More Room →
Some transit agencies are designing wider seats for their trains.
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Let Food Be Thy Medicine: Trash the vitamins, eat... →
From my food blog…
lettingfoodbethymedicine:
Best Evidence Review of Dietary Supplements and Mortality Rates in Older Women
Mursu J, Robien K, Harnack LJ, Park K, Jacobs Jr DR. Dietary supplements and mortality rate in older women. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:1625-1633.
Nearly half of older adults routinely use dietary supplements,…
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Eat Yourself Skinny →
Awesome food blog with great, healthy recipes!
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WatchWhere Christmas lights go to die… and be reborn as slippers.
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“The reality is, if we don’t start rediscovering what true talent is and...”
– -Katie Killacky for RedEye, Chicago, IL
Great article on reality TV. I don’t watch much reality TV except for survival shows on Discovery channel and cooking shows, but this is a good reminder to get out there in the new year and support local artists, actors, performers, etc. with actual...
December 2011
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November 2011
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What Really Happens on a Hospital Night Shift
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Research and design by Nursing Schools Site
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Death and dying on the wards
I received this paper in my email, Medical Students’ First Experiences with Death. Admittedly, usually with these Medpage articles I usually read through the ones I’m most interested in right away and wait til the end of the day or week to read the rest. But this time it seemed very fitting.
I’m in the first week of my medicine sub-internship and I admitted my very first patient...
October 2011
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Fat, unfit, unmotivated: Cardiologist, heal... →
Practice what you preach: Better physician habits, better patient care
A recent study in Vancouver, showed that cardiologists are not living, eating, and acting like the kind of physicians who can truly motivate patients to improve their own health.
Dr. McCrindle reviewed studies looking at what factors influenced the likelihood of physicians counseling their patients about healthy behaviors,...
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Hola, como se siente?
I finished up geriatrics in September in Chicago and was supposed to start an ER elective at hospital I once was an ER tech in for October. In a strange turn of events, I found out last minute that my rotation was at a non-ACGME site so with 2 business days and a weekend, I had to find new rotation to start Monday. If not, I’d have to sit out a month or travel back to NY in order to graduate...
September 2011
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The Home Visit: A Lost Art
After my first rotation in psych and a medicine elective during my third year, I was really curious to see what a home care visit was like. The idea of an iconic old doctor toting their black leather bag to see a sick patient in home seemed something I only saw in the movies or heard about (e.g., Jay Parkinson).
I finally got a chance this past month. I am in my first rotation of my 4th year in...
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Medical students: Apply to win a First Aid Step 1...
I won one of these scholarships last year. It was helpful to have an additional quizbank to look at besides Uworld, especially for free!
AMSA and the First Aid/USMLERx Team over $800,000 worth of scholarships at medical schools in the U.S. and around the world. Five 6-month USMLERx Step 1 Qmax and five 6-month USMLERx Step 2 CK Qmax scholarships are available to students in need at your...
August 2011
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By the way...
Tomorrow is the big day. Step 2 CK, it’s about time we meet.
Wish me luck.
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12 year old boy delivers his own baby brother →
Whoa.
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Stress can literally break your heart. →
I was just reading about Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or “broken heart syndrome” when I came across this “20 Things You Didn’t Know About Stress” list in Discover. Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy is when the bottom of the heart balloons into the shape of a pot (a tako-tsubo) used in Japan to trap octopus. Most often occurring in postmenopausal women, grief or another extreme...
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WatchCentral Park Dance Skaters!
When I lived in San Diego, I really wanted to join the Derby Dolls but was exceptionally frightened of getting my ass kicked.
Fortunately, I have found a home and happy skating family here in New York! After seeing these awesome people in the park one day, I got skates and started skating with them on the weekends as a nice break (until I injured my hand). What a...
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The Phantom Menace of Sleep Deprived Doctors →
Great NY Times article from Friday…
Interns can no longer work the 24 hour shifts of medicine’s historically hazing past. Surprisingly, studies have shown that this actually has not made a huge impact on medical errors. It is not only the sleep-deprivation of doctors that is the problem… It’s procedures like inadequate, interrupted sign outs and operational management...
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WatchRhett & Link: Commercial Kings…
My new favorite TV show.
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Healthy NYC school lunches! →
NYC public school lunches… Ahead of the nation in the fight against childhood obesity. A great piece on healthy eating in NY public schools. It is possible to eat healthy at $2.67 a day and the food looked pretty yummy.
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6 am train
I know I am on time when two blond Russian women pass me on the platform. Deeply engaged in their conversations, they walk past me and some how acknowledge their own clock reaffirmed by my presence. I stand by the first billboard that sporadically changes knowing that as soon as the new one is laid down, someone will splice it up and add their own grammatically incorrect commentary. The...
July 2011
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