Blog, MD

At least today’s Boston Globe thinks so, in its article entitled, “Blogs ‘essential’ to a good career.” I’m not quite sure if I buy it. I’ve heard too many horror stories of people being fired by their employers who were less than thrilled with blogs from internal sources. In fact, the blogging […]

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… of children come the most remarkable things. I just saw a 5-1/2 year old (”Five years and ten months,” he told me) boy with a couple of days of fever. When I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he told me (and I swear this is verbatim), […]

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… apparently me. Remember that I mentioned a while back that a gentleman named Tom Lunt was holding a contest to name his newly-discovered brain tumor? I submitted a few ideas:
- Dora: a play on “dura” which is one of the meninges, or layers covering the brain, where the tumor originated.
- […]

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Here is a new way of taking work home with you (if you’re a science geek). I found this article about using laboratory glassware to decorate your kitchen (courtesy of Orange Magazine).
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As I may or may not have mentioned of late, I’ve been trying to wean myself off of coffee. This has been no small feat for me, given the depth and profundity of my addition. Most of my graduate school, medical school and residency experiences were fueled by nephrotoxic doses of coffee. […]

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… which was quite obvious having attended the Franz Ferdinand/Death Cab For Cutie concert last night. It’s not that Julie and I were too old for the music (although the tortured 20-something romance stuff seems so dramatic compared to our lives now), rather that we were too old for the crowd. Good lord […]

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I was introduced to Argentinian beef in 1990 or 1991 - I can’t quite rememeber the year - by an Argentinian anesthesiologist at the University of Chicago, where I was working on some phase III clinical trials. At the time, I was not much of a steak person. Hell, I wasn’t much of […]

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This is why I like science so much. It’s the ideas that people have that are so good, that when you hear about it you immediately see why they’re so good (and wonder why you didn’t think of them in the first place). There’s an article in the NY Times regarding the biology […]

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Eleven Blue Men
Originally uploaded by Paula Wirth.
David Nathan, the father of modern pediatric hematology/oncology, mentioned this book at our microscope rounds last week. He was raving about Atul Gawande’s writing, and mentioned Berton Roueche as one of the first great medical writers. I had heard about […]

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Call Gods Had Mercy
Miraculously, I managed to get a little sleep, preventing a 4th fragmented night. The mythical ‘call gods’ obviously had mercy on me. I had maybe 10 pages overnight, which is not bad. Several were “critical lab value pages” where outside laboratories who process samples drawn by visiting nurse associations […]

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Anatomy as art …
So, my wife and I are going to New York City next month. She has kindly agreed to allow me to let my 20th high school reunion (East Brunswick High School, Class of ‘86) interece in the weekend of our 5th wedding anniversary. To thank her for her patience, I […]

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Nerdy post of the day
So here’s my last it of typing before I turn in (really, really, really). I’ve had a lot of people ask me about the dummy or filler text on the Ride For Them website. The web design software I use (Apple’s iWeb) put in the filler text to hold […]

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I got whomped this afternoon and had no time to type - I’ll try to recap the highlights later. Need a major power nap right now.
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I just had an episode of pager paranoia — it’s been about 4h since I’ve been paged, and so I got a little paranoid that my pager wasn’t working. It happens after a while — you begin to worry that the paging system is down, our your pager was accidentally turned off, or something, […]

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Paper of the Day
One of the most frustrating things about practicing general pediatrics, which I continue to do (and enjoy) while moonlighting at both a local urgent care center and a local community hospital, is the relative lack of evidence-based practice that I encounter. Coming from the perspective of both a laboratory scientist and […]

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