MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'From Medskool' source. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:45:09 +0100 http://frommedskool.com/2008/11/12/where-now/ An Obama Campaign Video Addresses Health Care I was pretty negligent with this blog during the election cycle. I didn’t even live blog the election as I did the midterms. And I certainly didn’t give the focus you might expect to the prospect of health care reform under both Presidential candidates. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1955197 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:11:47 +0100 1955197 http://frommedskool.com/2008/11/04/kim-jong-ill/ The Real Question Is If He’s Even Still Alive? The reclusive dictator of North Korea hasn’t been seen in a while. He recently missed a major military parade, which was just another step in many national spying agencies calling into question his health. Now word is spreading that his son has recruited a French neurosurgeon to [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1930188 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:56:11 +0100 1930188 http://frommedskool.com/2008/10/29/baylor-college-of-medicine-to-merge-with-rice-university/ Baylor College of Medicine is the only ‘private’ (and I use that term only because it is technically correct) medical school in the great state of Texas. It is also a pretty prestigious institution with a long and storied history. See Michael DeBakey. Rice University is a world renowned school with a strong focus on [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1917909 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:57:49 +0100 1917909 http://frommedskool.com/2008/10/29/interservice-advertising/ Advertising apparently influences everything we do. It’s so prevelant in society that it is making its way onto the hospital wards. I noticed these in the ICU during a rotation. Literally advertisements from competing services (general surgery and ENT) fishing for consults for trachs. The flyer literally says ‘Same Day Service’ and ‘Also - Peg Tubes’. [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1917910 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:12:14 +0100 1917910 http://frommedskool.com/2008/09/30/the-bailout/ I Nominate Scott Adams For Secretary of the Treasury A $700,000,000,000 bailout of the ‘troubled’ financial sector failed a House vote yesterday. God willing, although we’re probably not so lucky, no rescue package will ever see the light of law. The cries against the bailout seem to be getting louder or, more likely, simply more attention. And [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1840937 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:55:37 +0100 1840937 http://frommedskool.com/2008/09/18/good-to-see-freedom-being-protected/ The irony is killing me. The Transportation Security Administration’s intrusion of individual privacy represents one of the biggest modern American civil liberty violations. Now their new primary operational center has been renamed the ‘Freedom Center’. I cannot make this shit up. Can You Feel The Freedom Being Protected? In anycase, here is the TSA on the renaming. (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1806193 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:02:06 +0100 1806193 http://frommedskool.com/2008/09/07/better-doctors-dont-mean-better-care/ Wherein My MS Paint Skills Are Put To The Test The more I read, the less I think the social scientists and policy wonks should have much to say about the delivery of healthcare in the United States. True, I love policy debates, I love history, I love my amateurish attempts at economics. For this blog, I [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1773171 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:52:24 +0100 1773171 http://frommedskool.com/2008/09/07/tastes-like-cough-syrup/ Maybe I should stop drinking so much Red Bull. [A]ccording to Dr. Scott Willoughby, of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Adelaide University, the results of the study were alarming. “After one can it seemed to turn the young individual into one with more of the type of profile you would expect [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1773172 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:34:54 +0100 1773172 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/31/i-am-happy-to-be-here/ It Is Sad Part Of My Personal Philosophy Is Summed Up In A Commercial I truly believe we live, as a society, in a State of Fear. Politicians, media, religious groups and others all play off of it. It is a pessimistic, depressing view of the world. The theme is: everything is to be feared; tomorrow [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1750054 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:38:13 +0100 1750054 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/22/civil-jury-trials-restoring-our-faith-in-humanity/ A young woman in Iowa has had a jury of her peers find in favor of her for $1.5 million in a case against her ex-boyfriend. As you might expect, if it is to be posted on this blog, the nature of the verdict and award are…stunning. The plaintiff claimed the defendant gave her human papillomavirus. [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1726320 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:25:32 +0100 1726320 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/18/concierge-medicine-20/ Concierge medicine will never be mainstream in my lifetime. Neither will functional patient-physician encounters online. The fact is that health care consumption is to concentrated in an older generation. It is concentrated in those of lower socioeconomic means. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a future or a place in the delivery of health [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1713882 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:07:49 +0100 1713882 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/17/mccain-calls-majority-of-americans-stupid/ This Would’ve Been An Interesting Scene To Be At In some non-healthcare related news, there is a report going around the blogosphere that John McCain, during a private fundraiser on Friday, August 8th, essentially called the vast majority of Americans morons. The original reporting seems to be from the OSI Gazette blog. When joking about lopsided tax [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1711729 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:07:57 +0100 1711729 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/17/most-children-oppose-more-healthcare-for-children/ The Onion Reports On An Important Study via Peter Rost (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1711730 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:57:07 +0100 1711730 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/16/how-much-is-wasted-in-us-healthcare/ Talk About Being Wasteful… A PriceWaterhouseCoopers report estimates that the American healthcare system wastes $1,200,000,000,000 a year. That is a huge estimate, much larger than any I’ve ever seen but you’ve read it right…1.2 trillion dollars a year is wasted according to PriceWaterhouseCooper. Now granted, their estimate is based solely on accounting of existing figures which previous, [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1708977 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:58:52 +0100 1708977 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/15/i-used-to-be-a-doctor-for-pretend/ If NPH Likes It, You Should Go Buy It (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1708978 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:43:55 +0100 1708978 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/13/news-says-russia-invaded-georgia-but-i-dont-see-anything-from-my-trailer/ President Bush & Supreme Ruler Prime Minister Putin In Beijing (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1704670 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:02:57 +0100 1704670 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/13/where-does-all-the-money-go/ AHRQ staffers have published a new piece in Health Affairs looking at who gets government health care dollars. The actual study is subscription only but the Health Affairs blog breaks down what Selden and Sing found. You should go read it. Mostly because it re-enforces the fact that the government is holding most of the [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1700642 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:29:05 +0100 1700642 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/12/olympic-opening-ceremony-faked/ The opening ceremony for the XXIXth Olympiad in Beijing was heralded as remarkable. It was an introduction for most of the world to the rise of China. It should also serve as an introduction to China’s desperate personality disordeesque need to demonstrate its rise and relevance. I say that as more and more comes out that, [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1696105 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:18:34 +0100 1696105 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/11/someone-hacked-your-pacemaker/ Norton & McAfee Are Pending Release of a ‘Warning’ Implantable medical devices are often programed by radio frequency from outside the body. We’re talking about things like pacemakers, internal defibrillators, spinal cord simulators and several other types of devices. The example devices I cited above send little electrical shocks to various parts of your body (the heart [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1696106 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:50:17 +0100 1696106 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/09/an-iphone-post/ So I recently upgraded to Wordpress 2.6 from some stoneage version of the blogging software. It wasn’t without it’s difficulties and I’m thinking my current 3 year old blog theme might need a little overhaul to make it more WP 2.6 compatible. We might just change the whole art design of From Medskool. One of the [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1693616 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:16:01 +0100 1693616 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/09/carribbean-medical-school-pays-for-clinical-rotations/ During the third and fourth years of U.S. allopathic medical education, the medical students are in clinics and hospitals getting hands on experience with patients. The affiliation between the medical student’s school and the hospitals in which students rotate is typically not a financial one but often involves health care facilities with a mandate and [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1693617 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:13:40 +0100 1693617 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/06/blogrolled-by-the-la-times/ Because I’ve taken the day to day stuff for Grand Rounds over recent, From Medskool was blogrolled by the LA Times. And because they listed the medical blogs alphabetically this blog is actually at the top. Pretty cool. There’s a lot of really good blogs listed; everything from big guys like Kevin to small guys [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1686182 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:04:00 +0100 1686182 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/05/here-in-america-the-anesthesiologist-song/ No Offense To The Anesthesiologists (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1682933 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:15:43 +0100 1682933 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/05/medgadget-interviews-dr-rohack/ This is a little old but Medgadget has a good interview with Dr. James Rohack, the Texas cardiologist who is the president-elect of the American Medical Association. You should go listen and/or read the entire interview as it provides some pretty good insight into the workings of organized medicine and the future of such. (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1682934 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:05:33 +0100 1682934 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/05/no-more-patient-dumping-hopefully/ Los Angeles Skid Row A Los Angeles city ordinance is going to prohibit patient dumping on skid row. That practice by some Los Angeles hospitals (many of them affluent) got wide media coverage after several high profile cases. I’ve made some non-normative comments on this problem of patient dumping in the past. I’ve helped play social [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1682935 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:53:58 +0100 1682935 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/04/exploding-mri/ The Aftermath of an MRI Machine Which Exploded Simply Physics has an account and pictures of an MR machine which exploded during transport in Atlanta. They also have plenty of cool pictures of things going into MR machines…which probably shouldn’t. (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1679315 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:21:59 +0100 1679315 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/04/hospitals-are-killing-their-er-patients/ I was on a busy surgical specialty service at a large public hospital with a busy level I trauma center recently doing a sub-internship rotation. It’s the same trauma burdened hospital I grew up in. So I have some experience. The service I was on is very trauma oriented and crowded. Our patient census [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1679316 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:49:22 +0100 1679316 http://frommedskool.com/2008/08/03/grand-rounds-7/ window.document.getElementById('post-1843').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';I’ve been very frugal with my blogging of recent. Posts have been far and few between and pretty sloppily put together. I apologize. I’ve been on a neurosurgery sub-i for the past month. I’ll refrain from calling my time on service ‘work’ but it did necessitate a huge time commitment at the [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1676949 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:55:56 +0100 1676949 http://frommedskool.com/2008/07/29/scalpel-beer/ There has been considerable discussion about the internet, social media, privacy and how all of this will effect people in my generation and younger when they go out into the real world. The plethora of personal information being made available online, and not all of it shining on the virtue of the individual exposed, is [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1664182 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:09:22 +0100 1664182 http://frommedskool.com/2008/07/22/why-local-news-sucks/ So this story is seemingly tragic. In it a young Florida woman with Chiari Type I is having debilitating headaches and is about to get a p fossa decompression to cure her when her insurance company cancels her family’s health insurance plan and she doesn’t get the operation. Here is how the story describes it, A [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1645880 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:21:53 +0100 1645880 http://frommedskool.com/2008/07/21/anniversary-of-moon-landing/ In A Beautiful Sight, Apollo 11 Takes Off As you may or may not know, I’m a big fan of manned space flight. I’m being serious. I truly marvel that man can leave Earth and bemoan the lack of progress and support for human travel away from Earth. Such being the case, I thought it appropriate to [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1642604 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:02:50 +0100 1642604 http://frommedskool.com/2008/07/16/another-year-without-the-sgr-mandated-reimbursement-cuts/ There has been some drama going down on The Hill in case you haven’t been paying attention. This year was arguably the closest physicians have ever come to having the Sustained Growth Rate formula automatically reduce their reimbursement under Medicare. Medicare is supposedly a fixed budget system when it comes to paying providers like physicians. [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1630981 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:27:23 +0100 1630981 http://frommedskool.com/2008/07/12/dr-debakey-dies/ Dr. Michael Debakey has passed at 99. ‘’Dr. DeBakey’s reputation brought many people into this institution, and he treated them all: heads of state, entertainers, businessmen and presidents, as well as people with no titles and no means,'’ said Ron Girotto, president of The Methodist Hospital System. Girotto said the surgeon ‘’has improved the human condition and [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1615927 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:25:33 +0100 1615927 http://frommedskool.com/2008/07/09/wisenthal-center-tries-to-flush-aribert-heim-out/ Aribert Heim was a Nazi SS officer and physician whose infamy lies in the horrific ‘experiments’ he documented at Mauthausen Concentration camp during the year 1941. It is not for a lack of horror to Heim’s crimes that he lacks the name recognition of other Nazi physicians such as Josef Mengele. As Wikipedia says, Jewish inmates [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1602974 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:48:02 +0100 1602974 http://frommedskool.com/2008/07/05/this-fourth/ A Fine Sight Okay, it is actually no longer the Fourth of July but a slight tribute is still in order. I was on planes all day getting back from Dublin, which is a fine way to celebrate the birth of our country. There are tributes across the web, of course, and more specifically the medical [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1577260 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:11:00 +0100 1577260 http://frommedskool.com/2008/06/22/why-i-support-barack-obama-for-president/ Seriously, John McCain Has Never Even Heard of A Health Savings Account Everyone likes feeling like they ‘know‘ their leaders. No matter how cynical they are about politics in general. I’m not different; I’m star struck of Barack. I’ll say with a smile (despite it’s true inconsequence) that I met the future President once. I attended [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1537878 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:23:20 +0100 1537878 http://frommedskool.com/2008/06/22/tsa-now-to-require-id-to-travel/ Despite The Signs You See, Until Now You Did Not Have To Show ID Despite attempts by the Transportation Security Administration to convince you otherwise, you were not required to show government identification to board a plane as long as you were willing to undergone secondary security screening. Such was affirmed by a lower court and [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1536433 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:02:25 +0100 1536433 http://frommedskool.com/2008/06/19/our-prayers-are-with-you-dr-davis/ The immediate past president of the American Medical Association has pancreatic cancer. At the annual meeting I just rolled back from his address at the opening session of the House of Delegates was…very touching. The second hand accounts online don’t really do it justice but here is the WSJ Health Blog on it and the [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531137 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:11:22 +0100 1531137 http://frommedskool.com/2008/06/17/the-ama-on-industry-funding-of-education/ I just got back from Chicago and part of the American Medical Association’s Annual Meeting. I’ve been very involved with organized medicine over my medical school career.I think I fairly readily admit the faults of organized medicine (and forgive them) and I also realize that my involvement has been mostly, nearly fatuous. Many of my [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1526051 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:44:05 +0100 1526051 http://frommedskool.com/2008/06/10/vegans-face-prosecution/ I Spit My Green Beans Out As A Twelve Year Old And Ate A Whole Lot Of Meat A little girl in Britain is sick, suffering from, amongst other things, rickets and several pathological fractures at the age of twelve years old. Such is the case because her parents have raised her on a strict vegan [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1508219 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:23:45 +0100 1508219 http://frommedskool.com/2008/06/10/presidential-candidates-health-care-plans/ Health care, something I was sure would be the primary domestic issue this election is slowly fading away as it usually does. Not into oblivion obviously but taking a decidedly back seat to the more pressing economic issues facing the country. But it is important and people should take the time to distinguish Obama’s and [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1508220 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:04:31 +0100 1508220 http://frommedskool.com/2008/06/02/kennedy-has-successful-tumor-debulking/ Senator Ted Kennedy went down to Durham today for the first step in treating his high grade glioma. He had part of his tumor removed by Dr. Allan Friedman. “I am pleased to report that Sen. Kennedy’s surgery was successful and accomplished our goals,” Dr. Allan Friedman said in a written statement issued after the procedure. “Sen. [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1488137 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:20:28 +0100 1488137 http://frommedskool.com/2008/06/01/panda-bear-md-is-leaving-the-blogosphere/ A Big Part of the Medical Blogosphere Is Moving On My excuse for being two weeks late to it is that I’ve been pretty busy moving. In anycase, if you spend any time paying attention to the medical blogosphere you probably already know that Panda Bear, MD is dropping out to focus more on life activities. [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1484838 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:56:52 +0100 1484838 http://frommedskool.com/2008/06/01/physicians-saying-im-sorry/ Their is a (perhaps) growing trend of physicians being very candid when they make mistakes when caring for patients and saying I’m sorry. For decades, malpractice lawyers and insurers have counseled doctors and hospitals to “deny and defend.” Many still warn clients that any admission of fault, or even expression of regret, is likely to invite [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1484839 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:43:36 +0100 1484839 http://frommedskool.com/2008/06/01/urban-exploring-hospitals/ This account by an urban explorer of touring the abandoned Charles Camsell Hospital in Edmonton reminds me of touring Charity Hospital after Katrina. I wish I could find some of the pictures I took. It was creepy. Dark with everything still in the hospital. And no one could go in and start cleaning it up [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1484840 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:40:30 +0100 1484840 http://frommedskool.com/2008/05/29/two-vioxx-verdicts-get-altered-on-appeal/ Two of the earliest Vioxx suits which went for the plaintiffs have been overturned or reduced. In Texas an appeals court overturned a twenty-six million dollar verdict. In New Jersey the court reduced the award for a plantiff who blamed his MI for a heart attack from fourteen million to nine million. Both were clients [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1477857 Fri, 30 May 2008 01:21:11 +0100 1477857 http://frommedskool.com/2008/05/28/pathologicizing-obesity/ “Weight bias”? Really? The political correctness is going to smother me. Reported discrimination based on weight has increased 66% in the past decade, up from about 7% to 12% of U.S. adults, says one study, in the journal Obesity. Lynn McAfee, director of medical advocacy at the non-profit Council on Size and Weight Discrimination in Mt. Marion, [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1475115 Thu, 29 May 2008 02:24:13 +0100 1475115 http://frommedskool.com/2008/05/21/google-health-2/ I Don’t Know What This Has To Do With Google Health…Something Maybe… The same company that brings you “real life” on the street with the street view service of Google Maps now wants to securely store your health care records. Google Health has launched and some big names have jumped on board including BIDMC, Cleveland Clinic, [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1460913 Thu, 22 May 2008 00:55:49 +0100 1460913 http://frommedskool.com/2008/05/21/db-elected-to-the-acp-board-of-regents/ My favorite medical blogs were obviously one of my biggest motivations for starting my own. One of the first blogs I started reading after I had been admitted to medical school was DB’s Medical Rants. True, I’ve become increasingly critical of some of the arguments put forth by the primary care blogosphere concerning the ‘outpatient [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1460914 Wed, 21 May 2008 23:43:48 +0100 1460914 http://frommedskool.com/2008/05/20/ted-kennedy-has-a-high-grade-glioma/ A Glioblastoma Multiforme “Brain tumors” are pretty variable things. True, it is never good to have something pathologically growing in your head, but if someone tells you they have a “brain tumor” that can mean many different things. Not all brain tumors are created equal and the outcome measures for various brain tumors can vary considerably. [...] (Source: From Medskool) From Medskool blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1458465 Wed, 21 May 2008 11:57:43 +0100 1458465