Thanks to Dr. Cris for hosting me during my “homeless” period. Dr. Cris blogs from Australia:
Thanks to DrVal for providing this cartoon by way of a guest post. She is currently blogless and is taking a round the world blog tour. Look out for Val at a medblog near you!
Thanks to my dear friend Dr. Rob for allowing me to “crash” at his blog during my period of homelessness. Here’s an excerpt from one of my posts:
The Law Of Conservation of Mass
Students of physics, and doctors who were not asleep during all of their pre-med classes, will recall their professor’s lecture on the “law of conservation of mass.” This law of physics states that: “matter cannot be created or destroyed, although it may be rearranged.” This is the primary reason why no one can truly lose weight. The law of conservation of mass means that even if you do lose weight, someone else has to gain it, because matter (fat) cannot be destroyed, only rearranged…
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Thanks to Ian Furst for hosting me during my period of blog homelessnes. Here’s the post that he featured at his blog:
Thanks to Dr. Val for making a guest appearance at Wait Times. Val is a former Candian now living south of the border. When you make it to Waterloo (or Toronto) I’ll have some back-bacon on a bun and a pint of Canadian waiting for you.
Check out Ian’s blog here.
Thanks to Vijay (aka Scanman) for hosting this post on his site:
Well hello there, folks. It’s Dr. Val posting from Scanman’s blog in India! The hospitality I’ve been receiving from the medical blogging community has been tremendous. So many trusting souls, allowing me to post directly to their WordPress acccounts. My goodness… I could just remain nomadic and not create a new blog home for myself. Maybe this is blogging 3.0!?…
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I had the pleasure of interviewing the former president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine recently about the financial challenges threatening his specialty. (Reimbursement is not keeping up with the cost of technology).
As I prepared for the interview, I called in to the general society number to be transfered to his line.
The receptionist answered:
“SNM”
I paused for quite a few seconds as my cogs and wheels turned, wondering if I had misdialed. Nope, that’s just how they answer their phones over there. Ahem.
It’s no secret that doctors are disappointed with the way that the U.S. healthcare system is evolving. Most feel helpless about improving their work conditions or solving technical problems in patient care. Fortunately one young medical student was undeterred by the mountain of disappointment carried by his senior clinician mentors…
I am proud to be a part of the American Resident Project an initiative that promotes the writing of medical students residents and new physicians as they explore ideas for transforming American health care delivery. I recently had the opportunity to interview three of the writing fellows about how to…
Book Review: Is Empathy Learned By Faking It Till It’s Real?
I m often asked to do book reviews on my blog and I rarely agree to them. This is because it takes me a long time to read a book and then if I don t enjoy it I figure the author would rather me remain silent than publish my…
The Spirit Of The Place: Samuel Shem’s New Book May Depress You
When I was in medical school I read Samuel Shem s House Of God as a right of passage. At the time I found it to be a cynical yet eerily accurate portrayal of the underbelly of academic medicine. I gained comfort from its gallows humor and it made me…
Eat To Save Your Life: Another Half-True Diet Book
I am hesitant to review diet books because they are so often a tangled mess of fact and fiction. Teasing out their truth from falsehood is about as exhausting as delousing a long-haired elementary school student. However after being approached by the authors’ PR agency with the promise of a…
