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 'idiots'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:20:50 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4482926&cid=t_125228_132_f&fid=35024&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FBlindscientist%2F%7E3%2FIeMTFX4kLdk%2F … even at the New York Times. I would just call it “At large” and remove the culture part of the title. (Source: Blind.Scientist) Blind.Scientist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4482926 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:22:35 +0100 4482926 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220421&cid=t_125228_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FGxZ-Gfi8PXI%2F Senate GOP pledges to block all bills until tax dispute resolved – CNN.com. They’re like toddlers having tantrums. They are going to go out into the garden and eat worms…. Filed under: asides Tagged: GOP, idiots, Senate (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220421 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:08:24 +0100 4220421 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2594433&cid=t_125228_88_f&fid=34857&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscalpelorsword.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fwhy-i-read-charts-of-my-admitted.html I recently treated two patients, one with chest pain and one without. The one without chest pain was much sicker with some dangerous arrhythmias, and while his initial cardiac enzymes in the ER were negative, the following morning his troponin was over 50. Yet he survives, so far, despite his advanced age.The one with chest pain didn't seem particularly sick at all, and his Cardiologist was unimpressed with my presentation. Stable ECG, negative cardiac enzymes, and atypical features in an anxious patient with a previously negative workup suggests maybe he could go home, said he. Fortunately the Hospitalist agreed to admit him after some negotiation. This patient expired the next day.Reading the electronic medical record of my admitted patients gives me perspective and feedback that is diff... Scalpel or Sword? blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2594433 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:12:00 +0100 2594433 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2414790&cid=t_125228_88_f&fid=34857&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscalpelorsword.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fcomedy-of-errors.html Administrators require emergency nurses to document a lot of crap that has nothing to do with the patient's actual emergency condition. We have domestic violence screening questions, tuberculosis screening questions, immunization status queries, and so on and so on. These add a significant amount of time and effort to the triage process. Fortunately, we now use electronic medical records which have little checkboxes for those questions in order to speed up the process.I'm not certain, but I suspect these boxes must be checked or else the triage note cannot be completed. The combination of these two faulty systems sometimes results in unintentional comedy:1) 6 month old with fever and cough. Denies suicidal ideation. (He is crying a lot though. Maybe he's depressed)2) 55 year old with CPR i... Scalpel or Sword? blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2414790 Sat, 16 May 2009 12:15:00 +0100 2414790 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2074415&cid=t_125228_140_f&fid=35448&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseemedlikeagoodideathetime.com%2F2008%2F12%2F30%2Ffan-effin-tabulous%2F Just when Blago couldn’t stoop much lower…he did. Yee-haw, looks like we got us a token prospective senate nominee.  *update* Not just any typical Illinois politician. This guy had ambition-so much so that he was willing to send an innocent man to death row, just to appear to be tough on crime.  Little details, such as [...] (Source: bipolar chicks blogging) bipolar chicks blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2074415 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:56:17 +0100 2074415 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1848015&cid=t_125228_140_f&fid=35448&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseemedlikeagoodideathetime.com%2F2008%2F10%2F02%2Fhmmm%2F Useful Idiots (in their own words) Idea: Bus trips for McCain! so he too can put on his thug thizzle. When? Through Oct 6th Where? Local Malls across the U.S. - Each bus leaves for Ohio at the top of the hour/24 hours a day. Locations in all 57 states. (Breakfast included) Why? Because anyone can vote in Ohio-It’s [...] (Source: bipolar chicks blogging) bipolar chicks blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1848015 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:44:11 +0100 1848015 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1700664&cid=t_125228_111_f&fid=34834&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FMentalNurse%2F%7E3%2F363723197%2F Since I posted tips on being a student on placement, it was mentioned there should also be one on tips for university. This will largely be stolen from the comments on the placement one, editted and/or added to. You should go to lectures/classes. Just relying on handouts and powerpoint sheets won’t do much. You’re not really likely to read it, and if you do, are you likely to follow it? The best time to get a proper understanding is in the classroom. There is bound to be at least 1 tit who consistently asks stupid questions and/or has a story to share about the current topic (often totally unrelated), but if you can get a word in, you should to clarify anything you are unsure about. You can also speak to the lecturer at the end or via email if you need to. There is usually a... Mental Nurse blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1700664 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:01:43 +0100 1700664 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1701699&cid=t_125228_101_f&fid=36535&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbackboardsandbandaids.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fim-on-break.html Not anymore, bitch, take my report, we have more patients to get. This is a busy shift we DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR YOUR BULLSHIT. I don't care that you haven't eaten all day, haven't had your coffee, you need to pee, whatever, neither has anyone else. We need to get back on the streets. All the ambulances are out and 911 calls are backed up. There is a SOB that we needed to be at 2 minutes ago. Take my report, this one is important, he needs to be seen. 2 of the 4 nurses are on break. There are a shit load of patients, both the docs are dead on their feet. DOING SHIT THAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING, but can't, because you're on a break. Doc 1 is answering the phone. Doc 2 is starting an IV, that you should be starting, in a room. Doc number 1 is now... oh, taking my report. Thanks doc for doing the n... Backboards and Bandaids, Papers and Projects... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1701699 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:33:00 +0100 1701699 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1247920&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fleftbrainrightbrain.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D726 From the Age of Autism: They need to start listening to parents’ concerns and take them seriously,” said Amy Carson from Moms Against Mercury. She and cofounder Angela Medlin came all the way from balmy North Carolina to freeze in front of the AAP, abetted by TACA and NAA Chicago, led by Chapter Development Director Karen McDonough. This was their fifth rally outside the AAP, timed to greet employees arriving at work and remind them that thousands of American families believe vaccines have triggered an epidemic of autism and other developmental and chronic health disorders. And here is the proof positive of the teeming throngs of ‘thousands of American families’. You can click the image to make it bigger. Sadly it doesn’t increase the amount of attend... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1247920 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:27:30 +0100 1247920 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1236241&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fleftbrainrightbrain.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D717 This blog post will be edited further. The information implicating JB Handley and Gilchrist & Soames in Aug 2007 was innacurrate and has therefore been removed. Further information on JB’s business practices (entirely unrelated to Gilchrist and Soames) will be posted shortly. (Source: Left Brain/Right Brain) Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1236241 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:47:04 +0100 1236241 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1212102&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fleftbrainrightbrain.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D708 A couple of days ago, Brad Handley wrote a blog entry on Age of Autism called ‘DR. NANCY MINSHEW & ME: WHO’S CRAZY?’. The temptation to reply with a one word answer starting in ‘y’ and ending in ‘ou’ is nearly irresistible so I’ll resist it. Let us instead examine Brad’s criteria for deciding on who is crazy and who is not between Dr Minshew and he. I disagree with almost every single thing you have written or said about autism. Since we both can’t possibly be right, one of us has to be crazy. I’m scared to death it might be me. As a psychiatrist, I thought you could help. Says Brad to Dr Minshew in an email. He then continues with: It is maddening for parents like me that our “experts” can’t ag... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1212102 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:35:55 +0100 1212102 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1195894&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fleftbrainrightbrain.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D702 The Eli Stone thing is very closely following the ‘fallout’ trajectory of the MMR/Wakefield program (Hear The Silence)over here a few years ago in that the protagonists were virtually canonised and the evil medicos painted as uncaring, duplicitous swine. If the path of trajectory continues to be followed then Eli Stone’s canonisation should enjoy a brief, bright blaze followed by a long slow loss of interest from the general public and he will be relegated to one more point of disagreement that only matters to Age of Autism readers. However, I do wonder if the Legal Editor at Age of Autism might be coming ever so slightly detached from reality: Thanks to Eli Stone, our new patron saint of autism, we are no longer “Lost” to the mainstream media. Well no... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1195894 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:50:30 +0100 1195894 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=918942&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fleftbrainrightbrain.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D674 Conclusions” that “[o]ur study does not support a causal association between early exposure to mercury from thimerosal-containing vaccines and immune globulins and neuropsychological functioning at the age of 7 to 10 years.” The statement is plainly false. The study’s conclusions do not reflect the study’s data or the limitations of the study, You’d think that at least A-CHAMP would correct that hanging comma at the end of the sentence there. Sarcasm aside, the study’s conclusions do reflect the study’s data, quite well, as we will see, and A=CHAMP’s complaints boil down to the usual crank technique of cherry picking the evidence, combined perhaps with sour grapes. Let’s lay the abstract out for all to see before we look at ... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=918942 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:10:32 +0100 918942 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=893268&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kevinleitch.co.uk%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D650 And so, this was the week that the anti-vaccine/autism hypothesis got its first real airing in a public arena. Jenny McCarthy went on US TV and told her audience that her son was her science (quite possibly the silliest thing on the show since Tom Cruise’s couch/brain malfunction). I’m going to level with you here. I don’t really care too much about Jenny McCarthy spouting on about the evils of vaccines. She’s not the first and she won’t be the last. Despite the raptures the anti-vaccination people are having over her appearance she wasn’t on Oprah because of her vaccine ideas. This is what bothers me: she was on Oprah because she was famous. It scares the shit out of me that we can only apparently have a conversation about something after a celeb ha... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=893268 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:04:37 +0100 893268 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=853152&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kevinleitch.co.uk%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D616 DAN/ARI are asking people to leave messages for Andrew Wakefield. Below is mine: Now that the scientific evidence as presented by Stephen Bustin at the OAP has finally displayed to the world how utterly wrong you are about measles in the guts of autistic kids, when do you plan to issue an apology to all the children you and your colleagues needlessly scoped? When do you plan to issue an apology to all the parents who believed you and who subject their children to outlandish autism ‘treatments’ that have resulted in both death and hospitalisation? When do you plan to offer an apology to all the people who are now living in a UK where herd immunity teeters on a knife edge and the numbers of people hospitalised by measles grows every year? You have been proven scientifical... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=853152 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:55:18 +0100 853152 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=804439&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kevinleitch.co.uk%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D608 Over on the Rescue Post (so named so people might think it has an air of authority similar to the Huffington Post – they call themselves ‘editors’ bless them), Brad Handley continues to make an arse of himself in new and interesting ways: Have you ever tried to talk to someone involved with autism from the “other” side about recovered children? Typically, the conversation goes something like this: Us: So you think autism is a genetic condition and biomedical intervention is quackery? Them: Yes, exactly. Us: But what about the children who are recovered, how do you explain them? Them: Well, they may have been misdiagnosed… Us: Well what about the kids who have multiple diagnoses saying they were autistic and have been re-screened and no long... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=804439 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:11:37 +0100 804439 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=734518&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kevinleitch.co.uk%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D587 Every god-damn quarter, without fail. Every single one. The CDDS data gets released – Rick Rollens releases his usual ‘full syndrome’ crapola and tells us how autism is still skyrocketing and does his best Chicken Little impression and David Kirby chews at the edges of the data to try and find something that will support the idea that thiomersal plays any kind of role in autism. Its getting really, really old. Please let me say it to you one more time. CDDS is not good source data for epidemiology. They say so themselves. When CDDS refer to ‘full syndrome autism’ they are not, repeat, not referring to classical autism. See this form here? CDDS use it to record autism. It was designed in the 1970’s. The version in use today was last updated in 198... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=734518 Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:03:05 +0100 734518 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=720055&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kevinleitch.co.uk%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D580 I have a category tag on this blog especially for the loons at the Daily Mail (Melanie Phillips et al) which I usually select whenever I write about Andrew Wakefield or the MMR because its invariably one of them doing the writing. This time I was amazed to see that it was that usual bastion of intelligence and propriety, The Observer, that had decided to play the role of media dumbass. Obviously the mail and Private Eye are having an off day. First up was Andrew Wakefield himself – comparing himself to Vaclav Havel no less he pontificates: Wakefield told The Observer that he has no regrets for saying what he did in 1998 nor for continuing to seek to prove his view of MMR as the likeliest explanation for the rise in cases of autism in Britain. Almost every child health expert, t... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=720055 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:32:19 +0100 720055 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=696935&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kevinleitch.co.uk%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D567 Conclusion: you are 1% more likely to have Aspergers if you have been partially vaccinated. If you are fully vaccinated your chance of being Aspergers is exactly the same as if you were unvaccinated. Number of boys with PDD-NOS Unvaccinated: 1% of total Partially vaccinated: 2% of total Fully vaccinated: 1% Fully and Partially combined: 1% Conclusion: you are 1% more likely to have PDD-NOS if you have been partially vaccinated. If you are fully vaccinated your chance of being PDD-NOS is exactly the same as if you were unvaccinated. Number of boys with Autism Unvaccinated: 2% of total Partially vaccinated: 7% of total Fully vaccinated: 3% Fully and Partially combined: 4% Conclusion: you are 5% more likely to have autism if you have been partially vaccinated. If you are fully vaccin... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=696935 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:39:06 +0100 696935 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=683303&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kevinleitch.co.uk%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D565 You can always tell when the mercury militia are hurting – they wheel out their biggest gun. The biggest gun they have in their armoury is RFK Jr, a man who seems to live on the reputation of his dead family members and not a lot else. Last time he dropped the biggest, steamingest, drippiest turd on the web in the fullsome (and entirely accurate) language of Orac. Well, after reading RFK Jr’s latest verbal tantrum I think Orac might need to get out the Dynorod and try and flush this particular big shit in a small bowl away as quickly as possible. RFK Jr claims firstly that: The poisonous public attacks on Katie Wright this week—for revealing that her autistic son Christian (grandson of NBC Chair Bob Wright), has recovered significant function after chelation treatme... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=683303 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:56:13 +0100 683303 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=676214&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kevinleitch.co.uk%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D561 And so, as we approach the end of week one of the vaccine trial, its been truly fascinating to read (albeit a day behind my US counterparts) the ongoing proceedings. One of the things that fascinated me was the culling of the ‘expert witness’ list. Before Monday – the start of the trial – the expert list comprised: Jim Adams PhD Harland Austin D. Sc. David S Baskin MD Jeffrey Bradstreet M.D. Richard Carlton Deth PhD Mark Geier MD M. Eric Gershwin MD Phillippe Grandjean, Ph.D. Sander Greenland, Dr. PH Boyd E. Hayley, Ph D Robert Hirsch PhD Arthur Krigsman MD Cathy A Lally, Master P.H. Mary Megson, MD Elizabeth Mumper MD Andrew J. Wakefield, MB, BS, FRCS, FRCPath And on Monday, the people left from this list were: Arthur Krigsman MD. Amazing. I can only surm... Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=676214 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:06:31 +0100 676214 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=676216&cid=t_125228_133_f&fid=35109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kevinleitch.co.uk%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D558 I found a link to Wade’s blog that talked basically about how proud he was of the 10 or so people who attended the ‘Simpsonwood remembered’ conference this weekend (big get together for tinfoil hat fanciers). He linked to a few images of the event and as if I needed it, I was given a pertinent reminder of the average intelligence of the rank and file Mercury Militia members. Please, feel free to point and laugh. This, by the way, supplants my other favourite picture, taken at a David Kirby book reading: (Source: Left Brain/Right Brain) Left Brain/Right Brain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=676216 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:36:24 +0100 676216