Kudos to Michelle Canipe and colleagues at Washburn University
This is unbelievably awful:
http://cjonline.com/news/2013-06-03/former-employee-files-suit-against-washburn-library-dean
Former Washburn University librarian Michelle Canipe contends in a recently filed lawsuit that Washburn Dean of Libraries Alan Bearman was abusive to her and other employees, even punching one in the face and head.
I take it back. It’s not unbelievable. I think most of us know someone who works somewhere made horrible by an abusive boss. I know a few someones who work in libraries with bosses nearly this bad.
Just wanted to take a minute to express my admiration for Michelle Canipe and her...
Source: davidrothman.net - June 4, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Tags: stuff Source Type: blogs
RAND: The Evolving Role of Emergency Departments in the United States
Added to my reading list:
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR280.html
The research described in this report was performed to develop a more complete picture of how hospital emergency departments (EDs) contribute to the U.S. health care system, which is currently evolving in response to economic, clinical, and political pressures. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, it explores the evolving role that EDs and the personnel who staff them play in evaluating and managing complex and high-acuity patients, serving as the key decisionmaker for roughly half of all inpatient hospital admissions, and servin...
Source: davidrothman.net - May 22, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Tags: stuff emergency medicine Source Type: blogs
1994 Video Predicts iPad
Via PaleoFuture, this Knight Ridder video describes the iPad (okay “the tablet”…but Apple got there first) pretty damned well. Fascinating to me that an entity created by a newspaper company had this sort of prescience…and totally failed to act on it.
“Tablets will be a whole new class of computer, they’ll weigh under two pounds. They’ll be totally portable. They’ll have a clarity of screen display comparable to to ink on paper. They’ll be able to blend text, video, audio and graphics together and they’ll be part of our daily lives around the turn of the centur...
Source: davidrothman.net - May 20, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Tags: stuff ipad tablet Source Type: blogs
Zebra Hunting
Photo credit: Lesage Stefaan http://tinyurl.com/bpprqn6
Non-clinicians may not be familiar with “zebra” as a medical slang term.
Zebra is a medical slang term for a surprising diagnosis.[1] Although rare diseases are, in general, surprising when they are encountered, other diseases can be surprising in a particular person and time, and so “zebra” is the broader concept.
The term derives from the aphorism ”When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don’t expect to see a zebra”, which was coined in a slightly modified form in the late 1940s by Dr. Theodore Woodward, a former profess...
Source: davidrothman.net - April 25, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Tags: stuff decision support diagnosis genetic disease informatics rare disease search symptom Source Type: blogs
Dr. Eric Topol on The Colbert Report
The cardiologist talks about his book, “The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care.”
Video embedded below: (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - April 23, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Tags: stuff Source Type: blogs
Hitchens on Evidence
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Source: davidrothman.net - April 17, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Tags: Uncategorized hitchens quotes Source Type: blogs
Schr ödinger’s Hamlet
No, that would be “To Be AND Not To Be.” What is this, Schrödinger’s Hamlet?
Leave it to Theatre Majors to screw up a Venn Diagram.
“….let me fix that for you….” (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - April 17, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: David Tags: stuff Source Type: blogs
Schrödinger’s Hamlet
No, that would be “To Be AND Not To Be.” What is this, Schrödinger’s Hamlet?
Leave it to Theatre Majors to screw up a Venn Diagram.
“….let me fix that for you….” (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - April 17, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Tags: stuff Source Type: blogs
“Social media has changed Emergency Medicine Education” (free resources)
EM Resident Jeremy Webb MD (Wake Forrest, PGYIII) lists some of his favorite resources, adding: “I promise, you will read something today that may save a life tomorrow.”
EMCrit
Website: EMCrit.org
Twitter: @emcrit
Description: Scott Weingart is a critical care fellowship trained EM doc who specializes in bringing “upstairs care (ICU) downstairs” to the ED. If it involves critically ill patients, you’ll find it discussed here.
Resus
Website: Resus.me
Twitter: @cliffreid
Description: Cliff Reid is a prehospital physician with expertise in resuscitation. His site seeks to provide up-to-date information a...
Source: davidrothman.net - April 11, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Tags: stuff education emergency medicine free resources social media Source Type: blogs
