April 2nd, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Announcements, Medblogger Shout Outs
Tags: Grand Rounds, Hospitals
No Comments »
For those of you who enjoyed the April Fool’s Grand Rounds (I was participant #2 in an amusing “progressive blog” string of hosts), please join me at the Dr. Anonymous show tomorrow night (9pm EST, April 3) to find out how we pulled it off. In addition to going “behind the scenes” of the April Fool’s edition of Grand Rounds, Paul Levy (CEO of Beth Israel/Deaconess in Boston and author of “Running A Hospital“) will be Dr. Anonymous’ special guest. Paul recently won Medgadget’s coveted “Best Medical Blog of 2007” award.
You can listen to the conversation, join the chat room, call in to the show, or watch Dr. A’s live video feed. This will be a multi-media extravaganza with some of the medical blogosphere’s brightest stars… so don’t miss it! Go to this link a few minutes prior to the show start time.This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
January 23rd, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Announcements
Tags: News, Weight Loss
5 Comments »
I am very pleased to announce that this little blog of mine has won the highly coveted “Best New Medical Blog, 2007” award from MedGadget.com. Please go to the MedGadget site to check out all the other finalists and winners – I am truly honored to be counted among them.
If you’d like to peruse the best of my blog posts from this past year, simply click here.
If you’d like to check out some of my cartoons, please click here.
If you’d like to lose weight (yes, that’s right – Dr. Val is leading a weight loss group complete with activity tracker tools and a vibrant discussion board) please click here.
A heartfelt thanks to those of you who voted for me. I was touched that MedGadget mentioned that my blog provides “a human approach to medicine, balancing news and research with anecdotes and humor.” I think that sums up my style nicely.
Hope to see some of you in my weight loss group!This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
November 2nd, 2007 by Dr. Val Jones in Announcements
Tags: Personal, Podcast
1 Comment »
For those of you who missed the Blog Talk Radio interview last night, you may enjoy the audiocast at your convenience by going to Dr. Anonymous’ podcast archives and clicking on the Dr. Val show.
We talked about:
- How I got started with blogging
- How I came to Revolution Health
- What Revolution Health is and does
- Abnormal brain MRIs
- Kevin Everett’s spinal cord injury
- MRSA
- Cough medicine and kids
- Concierge medicine
- The Internet and the future of healthcare
- My Halloween SNAFU
Click here to enjoy the conversation (you should start the podcast at minute 8 since we had technical difficulties with the audio prior to that minute). Thanks for listening!This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
October 4th, 2007 by Dr. Val Jones in Announcements
Tags: Family Medicine, News, Personal
No Comments »
Well, I had a great time at the Revolution Health booth at the AAFP meeting today. Hundreds of people stopped by for a chat and to get to know what Revolution Health is about. I handed out golf towels (well, they were little white hand towels that I used to give out as gym towels, but with the doctor audience I changed the pitch to golf. How cliche of me. Ha!) Some of the notable guests included:
Bob Rakel, MD – author of my most favorite medical textbook in the world: Saunders Manual of Medical Practice
David Rakel, MD – Bob’s son, and the author of my second most favorite medical textbook: Integrative Medicine
Len Fromer, MD – past president of the California Academy of Family Physicians. His wife is an actor – and we had a great chat about how we both miss New York City.
John Pfenninger, MD – author of the coolest book for outpatient medical procedures
Todd Dicus, JD – deputy executive VP of the AAFP and a really friendly lawyer.
Marianne Walters, MD – an urgent care physician in California who taught me that surfers’ wet suits are like Petri dishes for MRSA (a really nasty bacterium). Ew.
Allan Harmer, ThM – from the Christian Medical Association, who told me that the story of how he accidentally attended a medical conference about HIV and ended up involved in medical groups for the rest of his career (even with no previous medical training).
Joe Scherger, MD – the hardest working man on the Revolution Health expert team. He gave a lecture about how to use email and online help as an integral part of one’s medical practice – and the audience was riveted.
Tomorrow’s going to be fun, I can just tell. And the best part is that I can wear sneakers with my business suits – all the family physicians are doing it themselves! I’ve never seen more Birkenstocks in one place before… I think Michelle Au might have been right about family docs – see her cartoon.
See you tomorrow at Revolution Rounds.This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
August 14th, 2007 by Dr. Val Jones in Announcements
Tags: Food and Nutrition, Gastroenterology, Medical Media
5 Comments »
I watched the final episode of “Hell’s Kitchen” last night – a cooking show where a mean chef berates young chef hopefuls in a series of competitive cooking contests. The host of the show was almost as vicious as my vascular surgery preceptor in medical school… you docs out there know what I mean.
Anyway, I had the pleasure of being the sous chef for Chef Rock at a recent charity event for celiac disease awareness. GastroGirl (Jackie Gaulin) and I helped him whip up a delicious, gluten free meal and CNN’s Heidi Collins taste tested our dish. Although our shrimp and grits lost to a rival “coriander encrusted skate” I always thought that chef Rock was a winner.
And here he is: the top chef of Hell’s Kitchen. Congratulations, Rock! I’d be delighted to work as your sous chef in Las Vegas… see you at the B. Smith’s victory party!This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
