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Okay, so I was officially an Olympic-level grump for yesterday’s National Grouch Day. Our clinic lost a superb human being – and a wonderful clinician – to a sudden, untreatable paroxysm of (brace yourself for this one) retirement. Excuse me? How selfish is that? Doesn’t he know there are more important issues at stake here […] Image by Photo Gallery via Flickr Grand Rounds is back! And this time the host, T, of ‘Notes From An Anesthesioboist‘ (classical music while you go under? sounds lovely) is hosting in six parts, each introduced by a snippet from a classic movie. It’s a HUGE list this time with tons and tons […] In a BBC news report on a preliminary research discovery that testicles may become a source for stem cells, Professor Robin Lovell-Badge (how British is that name?) is quoted as saying that further work needs to be done; therefore the issue “will have to be left dangling a little longer.” Could you turn your head […] Here’s a truly provocative study – looking at whether or not reading a novel about positive images and weight loss can affect the weight of severely overweight tweens. And the answer is…(envelope please) YES. Turns out that girls who were randomly assigned to read a novel with positive messages and information about healthy weight loss […] For a lovely bit of fiction that rings as true as crystal, head over to the Atlantic magazine. A short story by Julie Shumaker, titled Patient, Female explores the world of professional patients, the doctors in training who depend on them (and can intentionally or unintentionally offend them) and the tangled family ties that medicine/healthcare […] Okay, everyone who thinks they can multi-task, raise your hand (while returning that call from your client). There’s a nice summary on NPR about how the brain actually works – which debunks the myth that we can truly multi-task. What the executive function of the brain does (in our frontal lobes) is switch between activities, […] |
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