MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'grab'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:52:15 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2367427&cid=t_166857_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F04%2Fpost-obama-health-care-power-grab.html In "Help for Navigating Health Care," San Francisco Chronicle reporter Victoria Colliver interviews a woman named Adrianna Boden, who had a difficult medical experience, and offers tips on being a good medical consumer. From the story:The Empowered Healthcare Community, formed by a Google employee and a San Francisco dentist, offers these tips to navigating the health care system:-- Have a health advocate. Make sure someone helps you through your medical crisis, especially if you are hospitalized.-- No news is not necessarily good news. Check on your test results if you don't hear from the doctor.-- A second - or third or fourth - opinion is appropriate at any time during your treatment, not just in the early stages of diagnosis. A doctor who does not appreciate other opinions might not be... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2367427 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:08:00 +0100 2367427 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2035622&cid=t_166857_88_f&fid=34903&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cuivienen.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2Fwinter_blahs.html The winter blahs are a particularly bad problem when you're living in Chicago. Victims report wanting only to sleep, eat, and kill time on the internet. I've heard it called "hibernating," which is a good way to describe it. There are only two ways to cure my own winter blahs. One: take a long vacation to someplace less blah-y. Arizona and Colorado come to mind. Two: exercise. Even though it's only 12 degrees out and already dark by 4:30, get those wooly clothes on and go shuffle around outside until you think your face is about to fall off. Then come back home and have a big hot chocolate. It worked for me in Ann Arbor, and it's working for me now in Chicago. (Source: Glorfindel of Gondolin) Glorfindel of Gondolin blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2035622 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:38:49 +0100 2035622 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1526198&cid=t_166857_88_f&fid=34903&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cuivienen.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F06%2Fan_ambulance_crashes_and_im_no.html I'm surprised we don't see this more often. During the year that I drove an ambulance, I had to deal with a) oblivious drivers, for whom my lights and sirens were like the sound of falling golf clubs to Tiger Woods, and b) crazy-ass Denver Health paramedics who drove like nutjobs. Needless to say, I wouldn't be surprised if either vehicle was at fault for this crash. (Source: Glorfindel of Gondolin) Glorfindel of Gondolin blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1526198 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:40:32 +0100 1526198 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1497459&cid=t_166857_88_f&fid=34903&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cuivienen.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F06%2Fgot_bass.html Waiting for my girlfriend's plane from L.A. to land, I listened closely to Stool... uh, Tool, in the parking lot at O'Hare airport at 5 am after I'd worked all night in the ER. It was sublime: And then this always makes me think of those cold nights camped under the stars in Wyoming: (Source: Glorfindel of Gondolin) Glorfindel of Gondolin blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1497459 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:45:48 +0100 1497459 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1185735&cid=t_166857_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F01%2F29%2Fsermo-one-post-at-a-time%2F Sermo prides itself on offering a secure and private platform for its physician members. We previously discussed how weak their authentication model was, making it easy for anyone to grab an account and crash the doctors’ party. Because this model was in place for most of their first 25,000 members, it’s unclear how many of their members actually are physicians. But after blowing through $39M worth of funding, they still seem focused on poking holes in the privacy of their own closed community. We popped over to their homepage the other day and noticed that they are publishing selected postings from their community to their homepage. They now have a nice archive of over 1,500 such articles (about 10% of their total 16,000+ articles now posted to their service) you can review ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1185735 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:56:34 +0100 1185735 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=934002&cid=t_166857_88_f&fid=34903&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cuivienen.org%2Fblog%2F2007%2F10%2Fits_art_right_1.html I've been considering what to hang on my walls. I like a lot of stuff. Brom, for example: (Source: Glorfindel of Gondolin) Glorfindel of Gondolin blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=934002 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:36:52 +0100 934002 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=675655&cid=t_166857_88_f&fid=34903&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cuivienen.org%2Fblog%2F2007%2F06%2Fjack_lalanne.html "'If man made it, don't eat it,' he used to say, decades ahead of the popular movement to eat more whole foods." Of course, we know that Jack meant "synthesized in a vat of industrial chemicals" when he said "made." Ordinary chefery has to be OK. (Source: Glorfindel of Gondolin) Glorfindel of Gondolin blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=675655 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:09:01 +0100 675655 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=512403&cid=t_166857_88_f&fid=34903&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cuivienen.org%2Fblog%2F2007%2F03%2Fsuper_powers.html As I approach the check-out lines in the grocery store, wouldn't it be cool if all the people who are going to be paying with a check would just glow blue or something? That way, I could tell which line was likely to move the slowest, based on the reasonable assumption that paying with check = takes frigging forever. That's one super power that I'd like to have -- even if it isn't as cool as caped flight or x-ray vision. (Source: Glorfindel of Gondolin) Glorfindel of Gondolin blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=512403 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:44:41 +0100 512403 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=485729&cid=t_166857_88_f&fid=34903&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cuivienen.org%2Fblog%2F2007%2F03%2Ffar_cry.html The official Rush website has the new single from Snakes&Arrows. It's got a good bass timbre like the best songs from Vapor Trails. Like most Rush songs, it doesn't grab me by the throat initially, but probably will after I listen to it a few times. Can't wait for the tour. Rush fans, check out the gallery too. Good stuff. (Source: Glorfindel of Gondolin) Glorfindel of Gondolin blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=485729 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:16:40 +0100 485729 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479427&cid=t_166857_88_f&fid=34903&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cuivienen.org%2Fblog%2F2007%2F02%2Fsnakes_and_arrows_1.html Mark May 1, 2007 down on your calendars, because that's when the new Rush album comes out! Since you probably aren't googling "new rush album", you probably heard it here first. Here's Neil Peart:"Just seeing the power of evangelical Christianity and contrasting that with the power of fundamentalist religion all over the world in its different forms had a big effect on me," he said. "You try to put your own way of seeing the world into some kind of congruence with other people's, and that's difficult for me. I mean, I see the world in what I think to be a perfectly obvious and rational way, but when you go out into it and see the way other people think and behave, and express themselves on church signs, you realize, 'Well, I'm not really part of this club.'" (Source: Glorfindel of Gondoli... Glorfindel of Gondolin blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479427 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:33:28 +0100 479427