Grand Rounds – the Tabloid Edition

This week’s Grand Rounds is up! In classic, screaming headline format, the latest and best of the medical blogosphere awaits your perusal over at Unprotected Text. I especially enjoyed Dr. John Crippen’s take on the latest U.K. attempt to rate doctors (anonymously) on-line. Join the fray and Read All About It.

[…]

Wonderful, Impartial Advice

Run (don’t walk) your fingers over to click on this link to a great article by Jane Gross of the New York Times. In it, she spells out four major steps she wishes she’d done differently when her mother was failing at home. Today more and more Americans are the sandwich generation, and, like […]

Talking To Babies About Sperm

Seems like a weird idea, right? However, research shows that children conceived by donor sperm (or eggs) benefit greatly from hearing about how they were conceived early in life – specifically before the age of 4. While this may be a bit hard from some of us to get our heads around, the facts of […]

Practical Rage

As regular readers know, we here at Doc Gurley like practical info – too often the news is full of fear-mongering reports, or information that you can’t use. So it’s the practical slant that we really like in this report on parental rage at children’s sports events. This study in Applied Social Psychology highlights the […]

BOGUS Melons

Wow. It’s been so long since we’d seen a BOGUS Award recipient here at Doc Gurley, we were starting to wonder if something was up – had all the science writers in America gotten smarter? Were people stopping to think twice for fear of being outed here at Doc Gurley as truly BOGUS?

Nah.

Our […]

The Grand Rounds That Ate Manhattan

This week’s Grand Rounds is hosted over at The Blog That Ate Manhattan. It is a truly monster-sized event. Look for the best of medical blogging and then cruise this lovely site – full of wit, peace, gorgeous photos and solid medical info. Does it get any bigger or better than a Blog That Ate […]