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Links for 2007-02-07Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Healthcare Blogging and Web 2.0 Junk from China missile test raises fear of satellite collision | Guardian Unlimited An anti-satellite weapon test conducted by China last month has added at least 800 pieces of junk to the Earth's orbit, fuelling concerns that space debris has reached a critical mass. GenoMed, Inc. - Applying Genomics to the Practice of Medicine. Identifying genes for several diseases: kidney failure, diabetes, emphysema, influenza, West Nile virus, WNV and cancer.
Source: Kidney Notes - February 7, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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DNA 11 - From Life Comes Art. DNA 11 creates personalized and original abstract art from a sample of your DNA or fingerprints. ClinicalTrials.gov - Information on Clinical Trials and Human Research Studies
Source: Kidney Notes - February 6, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

Nobody's homeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There is nothing more challenging than seeing a new patient from a nursing home who gets dropped off by an ambulance service to my clinic, and there is scant paperwork as to the reason why he/she is here to see me. I'm talking about confused or demented elderly patients who barely remember their names, let alone why they need to consult a urologist. I usually get a registration form with insurance information, the medication list and a set of vital signs if I'm lucky. I also get a blank progress note page to write my observations. And that is IT!!!Oftentimes, the patient has been referred by the primary care physician, in ...
Source: UroStream - February 5, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

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Source: Kidney Notes - February 5, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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DailyLit: Read books by email.
Source: Kidney Notes - February 5, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

YouTube: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing UsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Kidney Notes - February 5, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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NEJM -- A Medical Mystery: Dilated Bowel Reuters» Second Life Sketches: The Art Of War by Warren Ellis "The more powerful orbiters will send your avatar into an uncontrollable high-speed ascension to a point a million meters up, at which altitude your avatar starts to fall apart and you have to log out of the world." Repressed Memory - Literature - New York Times In a paper posted online in the current issue of the journal Psychological Medicine, a team of psychiatrists and literary scholars reports that it could not find a single account of repressed memory, fictional or not, before the year 1800. American Red ...
Source: Kidney Notes - February 4, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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Source: Kidney Notes - February 3, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

YouTube: DialysisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
With a tunneled catheter.
Source: Kidney Notes - February 3, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia) Gives Talk on Free Culture, Transparency, and Search | The News is NowPublic.com
Source: Kidney Notes - February 3, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

Put these Images of your Heart on your FridgeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An interventional cardiologist just instructed a patient to put the angiogram of his narrowed heart vessels on his refrigerator to remind him to stay on his diet and take his medicines. Smart.
Source: Kidney Notes - February 2, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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The Auscultation Assistant - Hear Heart Murmurs, Heart Sounds, and Breath Sounds ukidney.com "Please browse this site's many educational tools for the study and practice of nephrology. This site features many contributions from members of the University of Toronto, Division of Nephrology."
Source: Kidney Notes - February 2, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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Hilarious Journal Articles #77: Intoxication of a Hospitalized Patient with an Isopropanol-Based Hand Sanitizer Equally tragic and comic. Makes you wonder why this doesn't happen all the time.
Source: Kidney Notes - February 1, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

Not enough megabytesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I'm running out of memory space in my brain. It's the sad truth. It's brought on by the fact that every hospital computer system has a different user name and password, and I'm expected to keep all of those straight in my head. Remembering a password shouldn't be too difficult since I tend to use the same one for almost everything, but one of the hospital I go to requires us to change our password every 3 months, compounding the problem. I admit to having a particularly difficult time not only coming up with a new password, but remembering later what I came up with. Furthermore, I have different usernames for accessing the...
Source: UroStream - January 31, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

World Apheresis Association (WAA) 11 th Congress and 6 th World Congress of the International Society for Apheresis (ISFA)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The combined meeting of World Apheresis Association (WAA) 11 th Congress and 6 th World Congress of the International Society for Apheresis (ISFA) will take place in Pacifico Yokohama Yokohama, Japan, from March 2―4, 2007. WAA federates many national, continental and international societies for hemapheresis and transfusion science, and ISFA is a representative international society for therapeutic apheresis. They have contributed to the development of these scientific fields for many years. These two societies serve a regular meeting every two years. This is the first combined congress of the two Societies. It is really ...
Source: ESAO - Liver Support Working Group - January 31, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: Dr. Igor M. Sauer Tags: Meetings Source Type: blogs

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Experts Divided Over President Bush's Health Care Proposals - Kaisernetwork.org NPR : Xeni Tech (Podcast) Reporting from the intersection of culture and technology, NPR 'Day to Day' contributor and BoingBoing blogger Xeni Jardin covers wireless networks in Tibet, military technology in Iraq, zero-gravity floating tutorials -- and everything in between. The Harvard Business Review List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007 Moya Moya Disease Moyamoya disease is a rare, progressive cerebrovascular disorder caused by blocked arteries at the base of the brain in an area called the basal ganglia. The name "moyamoya" means "pu...
Source: Kidney Notes - January 31, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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Overclocked by Cory Doctorow. Download for Free."These files are under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license. Mix 'em up. Send them to your friends. Get creative. Tell me about it. Make cool junk." Hilarious Journal Articles #76: Lending a Hand: Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat "For this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, 16 married women were subjected to the threat of electric shock while holding their husband's hand, the hand of an anonymous male experimenter, or no hand at all." IDIOT TOYS: Tech reviews for the bored Technological Si...
Source: Kidney Notes - January 30, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

ParanoiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I was on-call this weekend, and it was surprisingly quiet. (Of course, I realize that having said this, my next call weekend is guaranteed to be hellish...) But a "restful" call-weekend is not all that you may think it is, especially if you are somewhat neurotic and paranoid by nature. And lo and behold, I believe I do fall into the "neurotic" and "paranoid" category.My pager went off a total of 6 times, which is somewhat akin to a miracle. On average, I tend to get about 15 to 20 calls per weekend. But instead of enjoying the peace and quiet, I was secretly worrying about whether my pager was working properly, which is wh...
Source: UroStream - January 29, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

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Boing Boing: Sweden to be first country with official embassy in Second Life intueri» Danger to Others. (Antisocial Personality Disorder) Open Culture: University Podcast Collection Open Culture: The Podcast Portal - Open Culture Fills Your Ipod Reuters/Second Life » Second Life Sketches: A Night On The Grid (Warren Ellis) bubbl.us - brainstorming with style (mindmapping)Outstanding free online mindmapping application.
Source: Kidney Notes - January 29, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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Clinical Cases and Images - Blog: Medical Wikis May Change the Way We Study Medicine Scientific American.com: Tag, You're It: Scientists Describe Collaborative Tagging Sites like Del.icio.us -- Italian researchers determine underlying statistical structure of social bookmarking sites The Web Celeb 25 - Forbes.com
Source: Kidney Notes - January 28, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

4th International Symposium on Artificial Liver in Chongqing, PR ChinaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The final programme of the 4th International Symposium on Artificial Liver taking place in Chongqing, PR China, March 9-12, 2007 is avaliable. Final Programme March 9 Registration day March 10 Morning 8:00-9:00 Opening ceremony 9:20-10:40 Presentation session 1 9:20-10:00 The correction of disturbed pathophysiology of hepatic failure by albumin dialysis (Roger Williams) 10:00-10:40 Hepatocyte Transplantation for the Treatment of Liver Disease (Stephen Strom)　 10:40-12:00 Presentation session 2 10:40-11:20 Liver Support in Europe - status quo (Igor Sauer) 11:20-12:00 MARS – evidence and controversies (Alexander Chiu) 12...
Source: ESAO - Liver Support Working Group - January 27, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: Dr. Igor M. Sauer Tags: Meetings Source Type: blogs

Learning curveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This is a rather humbling story.Though I am quite comfortable these days with urethras and catheterizations, it was not that long ago that I had a rather embarrassing experience.I was a medical student on my first surgery rotation, and I was asked to place a foley in a female patient. No big deal, right?Well, it was the first time I had to place a foley in a woman, and the anatomy is a little more complicated than a man's (What can I say... Boys have one obvious opening. Not so simple in girls...) I am ashamed to say that I spent a good 30 secs trying to catheterize this poor patient's clitoris. I just couldn't understand ...
Source: UroStream - January 25, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

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Ironic Sans: Every ad in Times Square NEJM -- Wound Healing with Electric Potential The efficient and effective repair of damaged tissue is fundamental to human survival. Wound repair has therefore challenged generations of health care providers, and various strategies have been used to accelerate and perfect the healing process. Patient Fixes Lithotripsy Machine to Treat His Kidney Stones Mocevic asked to borrow a set of tools and then stripped down and repaired the Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy machine at the hospital in Kasindol. Matching Donors | Organ Donor, Organ Transplant, Organ Donor Services
Source: Kidney Notes - January 24, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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Source: Kidney Notes - January 23, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

Broken recordEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Don't get me wrong, I love what I do for a living, but even urologists can fall into a rut. Since we tend to see the same diseases over and over again, there are days when everything feels very repetitive. I have standard talks about a variety of urological disorders that I can spout off at will, including my "stress incontinence talk" which includes the "pretend my fist is the bladder and my index finger is the urethra" visual aid, my "hematuria talk" (showing off my artistic skills with drawing of the kidneys, ureters and bladder), my "elevated PSA talk" leading into "prostate needle biopsy talk" (using a nice plastic mo...
Source: UroStream - January 23, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

Never Teach a Cardiologist How to Do AnythingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Via a cardiologist friend (not quite seriously):By the way, did I ever mention to never teach a single cardiologist how to perform any kind of dialysis? Because if just one of us knows, all of us will learn, and then we will start doing it.Ask any radiologist about nuclear stress tests, MRI, CT, ultrasound or diagnostic catheterization.
Source: Kidney Notes - January 22, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

Jennifer Strange Died from Water Intoxication (Hyponatremia) After Drinking Two Gallons of Water. How Low Did Her Serum Sodium Go?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
More on the tragedy here. Some quick calculations. Assuming she weighed 63.5 kg (140 lbs), with a 50% body water percentage, her total body water was 31.75 L.According to this article, she drank 2 gallons (7.5 liters) over approximately two hours, and we'll assume her kidneys eliminated 1000 ml of that -- figuring her max urine output was 500 ml per hour, and a full bladder holds at most about 1000 ml -- which means her total body water increased by about 6.5 liters in two hours (assuming that she absorbed all the water she ingested). If her serum sodium was initially normal at 140 mEq/L, after the contest she would have a...
Source: Kidney Notes - January 20, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

Flickr: The Yew TunnelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Kidney Notes - January 20, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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NYC Hospitals | Map of Hospital Closings The Seattle Times: Will rare redheads be extinct by 2100? The reason, according to scientists at the independent institute in England, which studies all sorts of hair problems, is that just 4 percent of the world&#39;s population carries the red-hair gene. When Being a Verb is Not Enough: Google Wants to be Your Internet Pfizer's Pfinances. In the Pipeline. Pfizer's making a big announcement next Monday: but what are they announcing?
Source: Kidney Notes - January 20, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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Medical Photographic Library -- Wellcome Trust The Blog That Ate Manhattan: What's Inside? [ICD Marketing] "Patients will start calling and coming in to their cardiologists asking if an ICD is right for them." Cool Hunting: Sleepwalkers Sleepwalkers is a nighttime installation comprised of continuous sequences of film scenes projected onto facades that transform West 53rd and 54th streets into a vast outdoor multiplex. Expert Ties Ex-Player's Suicide to Brain Damage - New York Times "Hi, I'm Art Buchwald, And I Just Died": NYT Debuts Video Obituaries | The Huffington Post
Source: Kidney Notes - January 19, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

Flickr: Yodoagawa river, OsakaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Kidney Notes - January 19, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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High Complexity Medical Decision-Making -- EMuniversity Sermo - Social Network for Doctors Gets Funded - Mashable Website [Sermo] seeks doctors' take on drugs, and firms protest - The Boston Globe A Cambridge company that pays doctors to post medical observations on its website, including reports of drug side effects, has quickly incurred the wrath of pharmaceutical makers. 24-Hour Newspaper People - New York Times "Having a blog makes me approachable, reader-friendly and engaged. Perhaps too engaged." Howard Hughes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia NASA - STEREO's First View of the Sun Loops of highly c...
Source: Kidney Notes - January 17, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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Wists, social shopping scrapbook, wishlist
Source: Kidney Notes - January 16, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

Food thoughtsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I think I wrote on a previous post how much I love food, and I'm not averse to trying all kinds of ethnic and "unusual" dishes, which makes traveling so much fun. My husband shares a similar passion for good food, and we are always excited about visiting countries that have a strong "food culture", and Hong Kong was certainly one of those places.As an aside, I tend to believe that the majority of the US does not have this profound "food culture" seen in other countries. We certainly consume a massive quantity of food, but I think we care less about the quality and freshness of the food. Just go to your local supermarket an...
Source: UroStream - January 15, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

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Eschara: A Scar is a Story A life-or-death situation: Family poisoned by mushrooms first to receive experimental treatment - By Jondi Gumz - Sentinel staff writer - January 14, 2007 "Using Google Scholar, a search engine of scholarly literature, he found a promising avenue of treatment: Extract from milk thistle, a nuisance weed for farmers and used as a liver tonic in European folk medicine." Autopsy Finds Signs of Water Intoxication in Radio Contestant's Death
Source: Kidney Notes - January 15, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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Target Pharmacy $4 Program List of Drugs Wal-Mart Announces Accelerated Rollout Of $4 Generic Prescription Program In 14 States Ten more CSS tricks you may not know
Source: Kidney Notes - January 14, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

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Boing Boing: Robert Anton Wilson (RIP) This Week in Science Interview (Featuring William Gibson) A First Glance at Gov. Schwarzenegger's Health Plan « The Sentinel Effect Google Gadget Award Winners 2006 medinnovationblog: Twelve Health Care Predictions for 2007 Piccolini. Everything Urbane For You and Your Little Ones Most Viewed Health Articles of 2006 - The New York Times Second Life Sketches: Digital Shorelines by Warren Ellis "Second Life has no goals, unless you count the continuing attempt to avoid the erotic depredations of hideously overendowed anthropomorphic rabbits…"
Source: Kidney Notes - January 13, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

Mindmap of "Getting Things Done" by David AllenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I recently created several educational mindmaps with MindManager (see here and here for examples). As an experiment, this is a mindmap I created of the methodology of Getting Things Done by David Allen. It's a large map, but I found it helpful to have a bird's eye view of the entire system. Please note that these are not my ideas, this mindmap is provided for educational purposes only, and I encourage you to visit Davidco.com and/or buy Getting Things Done. It's worth reading.
Source: Kidney Notes - January 11, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: KidneyNotes Source Type: blogs

A day (and night) in the life of a urologistEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I spent about an hour last night squeezing a man's penis. And no, it wasn't my husband's!!!!As you can guess, I was on call last night and was about to retire to bed when I was called in for a priapism (painful sustained erection of more than 4 hours). This poor man did not have any risk factors for developing priapism, and was actually a nice, albeit unfortunate man. I had to do some intra-corporeal irrigation (which involves putting a needle in the penis and flushing the blood out with some saline), and manual compression (hence the squeezing), and finally his erection went down. I was able to get a few precious hours o...
Source: UroStream - January 10, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

Happy New Year!!! Twice!!!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I am back after a fabulous trip to Hong Kong. The city is absolutely fantastic, and we were able to squeeze in a lot of activities in one short week. It's funny how time just flies by when you are having a good time...I will write more about Hong Kong in my future posts, but for now I will keep it short because I am still extremely jet-lagged.We had the unusual pleasure of experiencing New Year's Eve twice. We left Asia on Dec 31st at 11:55 PM and arrived home at around the same time. Amazing what air travel and time zones will do to you.I got about an hour's worth of sleep last night because of the time difference, and I ...
Source: UroStream - January 3, 2007 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

And off we go again...Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Unless I find an easy internet connection at my hotel, I will be unable to write any new posts for the next week. You see, I am going to Hong Kong for Christmas with my husband, and we cannot wait. We are leaving tomorrow and will be there for almost a week. It's the first time in Hong Kong for the both of us, and we are already salivating at the thought of authentic dim sum, shiny & crispy peking duck, as well as low-key congee and noodle shops. As you can tell, food is always a priority on all our vacations, and I feel like we are going to hit the jackpot.The icing on the cake is the fact that the Weather Channel is pred...
Source: UroStream - December 23, 2006 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

Vanity justified...Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
According to this article on WebMD, surgeons tend to be the better looking doctors...Interesting...Too bad they didn't mention anything about female surgeons...
Source: UroStream - December 22, 2006 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

Willy WonkaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Just bring to mind Willy Wonka's chocolate factory with rivers of milk chocolate streaming by, delicious treats sprouting from the ground, and the whole place generally overflowing with goodies....Well, that's our office right now. This time of the year, we are inundated by chocolate and other fattening treats. Patients, pharm reps and other well-wishers have been extremely generous (as they are every year), and I've been snacking constantly for the past 2 weeks. Oh no, I'm not complaining, but it is requiring a supreme amount of willpower to limit myself to just a couple of pieces of dark chocolate truffle with caramel pe...
Source: UroStream - December 20, 2006 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

Jehovah's witnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
For those of you who have been following my blog, you will surely have guessed that I'm a knee-jerk bleeding heart liberal, and I'm extremely tolerant and open-minded. (to my family members and friends, there was absolutely no need for that outright snickering....) But I have always been somewhat perplexed by the philosophy of Jehovah's witnesses regarding medical treatments.I was on call a couple of weekends ago (no, not this past one when I over-imbibed. Give me some credit!), and we ended up doing two kidney transplants. Now I really like doing transplants these days, but they used to be the urology resident's anathema,...
Source: UroStream - December 19, 2006 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

Never Again...Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
That was my vow on friday night as I was cradling the porcelain goddess into the wee hours of the morning. You see, we had our annual Christmas party/dinner, and I must have overindulged in the alcoholic beverage department. Though truth be told, I am a real lightweight since I only had two martinis.Yes, just two martinis to send me over the edge into the realm of intractable nausea and vomiting. What I would have given for a little Zofran... I had the displeasure of experiencing my scallops and salmon twice...Even today my stomach is feeling a little queasy and I've been nursing a headache over the whole weekend. I guess ...
Source: UroStream - December 17, 2006 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

This blog has been nominated for the Medical Weblog Awards (Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog)...Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The third annual Medical Weblog Awards! These awards are designed to honor the very best in the medical blogosphere, and to highlight the diverse world of medical blogs. The categories for this year's awards will be: - Best Medical Weblog - Best New Medical Weblog (established in 2006) - Best Literary Medical Weblog - Best Clinical Sciences Weblog - Best Health Policies/Ethics Weblog - Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog - Best Patient's Blog (a new category this year) The Blog of the ESAO Liver Support Working Group has been nominated for the category "Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog". Other nomine...
Source: ESAO - Liver Support Working Group - December 16, 2006 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: Dr. Igor M. Sauer Tags: General Source Type: blogs

Google Patent Search launchesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Google launched a Search service dedicated to patents only: http://www.google.com/patents . The information comes from USPTO - therfore, only US-american patents are listed so far -, and results on Google do include links to the USPTO entries.
Source: ESAO - Liver Support Working Group - December 12, 2006 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: Dr. Igor M. Sauer Tags: Bioinformatics & IT Source Type: blogs

Bane of my existence:Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The PagerI remember the very first time I received my own pager. It was the first day of internship, about a month after I graduated from medical school. It's not to say that I never had a pager during my medical school years. I wore one during particular rotations but it was always the generic "med student" pager for that particular service, and never had my name attached to it.But that day I received my very own pager was quite memorable. Mostly because it was the ONLY day I was ever glad to have a pager. It was a status symbol, something to say that I was finally a real doctor and nurses and colleagues would page me for...
Source: UroStream - December 11, 2006 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

If all else fails...blame the anesthesia...Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Notice that I didn't say blame the anesthesiologist... just blame the anesthesia. The adage in the OR is: "it's always the fault of the anesthesia...." I jest (not), but I frequently find myself blaming the various side effects that patients experience after a surgical procedure on the anesthesia. These can include nausea and vomiting, headaches, muscle aches, lethargy, constipation, sore throat and a general feeling of malaise, not to mention the pain from the procedure itself.When a post-op patient comes in, complaining of various little ills, I nod slowly, and in my most "knowing" and empathic tone, I will say: "yes, it...
Source: UroStream - December 8, 2006 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

Morning "workout"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I'm all for exercising and getting a nice cardio workout, but I hate it when I have to do it unexpectedly.I live on the 13th floor of my condo (strangely, I'm not superstitious about this), which is nice because we have a great panoramic view and we don't hear much street noise. But it is a nightmare when the elevators stop working, and you have to go up and down 13 flights of stairs with three dogs....Much to my dismay, there was an electrical overload that shut down the elevators this morning, so I was forced to take the stairs in order to walk the dogs. The stairs are metal, so they make an enormous racket when you walk...
Source: UroStream - December 6, 2006 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Source Type: blogs

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