September 18th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in True Stories
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I love my new blog web designer. She is incredibly talented, and has the uncanny ability to capture concepts with images. In fact, if you’d like to comment on this post to offer her a “high five” for this website design, I’m sure she’d appreciate it. Her name is Beata.
When Beata and I sat down to try to figure out how to express my “style” she asked me what kind of visuals I was drawn to. I showed her the Medi-mation website since I have a soft spot for 3-D science animation. She said she’d like to start with some microscopic images and stylize them for me so that they were suggestive of medical images, but not too literal.
Beata offered me a series of background patterns to choose from for my landing page. I did an abrupt halt over this one though: Read more »
September 17th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Medblogger Shout Outs
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KevinMD pointed me to this amusing USA Today opinion piece about an imaginary want ad for physicians:
“Idealistic Generation X/Y overachievers with low- to mid-six-figure student loans to work in imploding health care system currently subject to runaway entitlement spending. Future salary to be subject to government whim and guaranteed not to keep up with inflation. Will be subject to unreasonable expectations of patients and held responsible for less-than-perfect outcomes by consumer advocates and trial lawyers. Must be able to work 70-80 hours per week, not including on-call duties, and place family obligations a distant second to career pursuits.”
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August 20th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Medblogger Shout Outs
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Usually I prepare a weekly (or bi-weekly) feature called “Heard Around The Blogosphere” but this time I’d like to devote my list to images – things SEEN around the medblogosphere. Here’s my top 10 list:
1. Paul Levy’s feet (he is the CEO of Beth Israel/Deaconess Hospital in Boston – and he has some pretty impressive bunions)
2. Doggie scuba gear – I doubt the dogs enjoy it
3. Prosthetic limbs inspired by “retro” furniture – from Medgadget.com
4. TV sunglasses for use at the dentist’s office – now that will keep your mind off things!
5. A fake necktie is actually a cooling device – anesthesiologist Joe found this interesting Japanese invention for men.
6. Beer goggles from the Happy Hospitalist
7. Bizarre bread sculptures that resemble human body parts – from Boing Boing
8. Too many fingers – art by Street Anatomy
9. A skeleton necklace – found by Happy Hospitalist
10. Margarine ad with something lost in translation – Fail BlogThis post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
August 17th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Medblogger Shout Outs
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I’m a big fan of GruntDoc (Texas ER physician Allen Roberts), one of the first medical bloggers on the Internet. To show my appreciation, I’ve decided to plagiarize repost this classic “rant” of his (in case you missed it in 2004):
I work in an Emergency Department, and have noticed that there is one common denominator in the majority of the assaulted patients I treat: they were all assaulted by “Some Dude“. (Also, they were all assaulted for “…no reason…”, but that’s the topic of another rant). This is true no matter where I work, the time of day or day of the week.
“Some Dude” has in the last two weeks shot my patients, sucker-punched, struck with bottles, beaten them with fists and a golf club (or perhaps the entire set), and pushed my patients down stairs.
Additionally, “Some Dude” has ’slipped drugs’ into the drinks of, transmitted sexual diseases to, and stolen the medications of my patients.
I have no idea how “Some Dude” is everywhere at once. I suspect he’s an evil superhero, though in the current times I cannot completely exclude an AlQuaeda conspiracy.
I advocate a vigorous police and public-health effort to locate and confine “Some Dude” due to the clear and present danger he represents to the health and welfare of our republic.
If you encounter “Some Dude,” please turn him in to the appropriate authorities. 
This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
July 18th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Medblogger Shout Outs
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Bureaucracy + worker’s compensation attorneys = THIS
Thanks to Dr. Rob for the laugh-out-loud glimpse into the wonderful world of medical coding.This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
