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Welcome! This is fifth time I’ve hosted Grand Rounds here at code blog. Although my previous four attempts were fairly creative, I decided to keep this edition simple. All submissions were included – if you do not see yours here, I did not get it for some reason!

Please enjoy her Grand Rounds, and welcome Geena to the 5 Time Host Club.

ACP Internist: Grand Rounds at ACP Internist

Grand Rounds are up.

I stopped doing the weekly announcements, as some months it looked like that was all I did here.  There’s a link in the left upper sidebar to find the Grand Rounds through Dr. Val’s place.

Grand Rounds for January 6th: Profit in medicine and other cool stuff! at edwinleap.com

The most literary EM Blogger hosts Grand Rounds!

Election Day at Grand Rounds – Nurse Ratched’s Place

Grand Rounds is up!  (apparently the issue numbers have been lost).

Gentlemen: Start Your Grand Rounds! // Emergiblog
Welcome to the Emergiblog Speedway, where the Grand Rounds 500 is about to get underway! No chance of a rain delay – our bloggers are ready to roll!

Thirty-nine bloggers have shown up for the event. All entries have qualified; no posts were sent back to the garage.

Nascar analogy, from the Bay Area.  Heh.

Notes of an Anesthesioboist: Grand Rounds!

Fun city.

Grandly Rounding, MDOD Style…
Thanks everyone for visiting for MDOD’s first hosting of internet medblog Grand Rounds. Folks have asked if there is a theme for this week and since I’m new to this the answer is… well, maybe. I am going to post everything that was sent to me and some stuff we found. I hope you enjoy it.

Up now.

Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 2 « monash medical student
Welcome to the 2nd edition of Grand Rounds Volume 5. I am honoured to be hosting Grand Rounds for the 2nd time.

I missed it yesterday, better late than never?

Kicking off the Fifth Year of Grand Rounds is one of Medblogging’s brightest lights, Dr. Val Jones, of Revolution Health.  Except it’s not there, and it’s not at her new place (not open for blogging yet), which begat the clever decision to post Grand Rounds at two different powerhouse blogs:  Emergiblog and Kevin, MD (looks like the same at both places).

Welcome to the historic, 5th year anniversary of Grand Rounds, the weekly summary of the best of the medical blogosphere. As the proud new co-leader of Grand Rounds, I am committed to expanding its reach, promoting the Grand Rounds “brand,” and making sure contributors’ voices are heard by healthcare’s movers and shakers.
This day happens to be historic for me as well, since I have just taken the leap into blogging independence. I’m excited that “Dr. Val and the Voice of Reason” lives on at the Getting Better Blog. I am committed to integrity, transparency, and medical accuracy – presented in a warm, and down-to-earth manner. Unfortunately, my new site is not live yet, so KevinMD and Kim from Emergiblog have graciously allowed me to crash guest blog at their sites for this edition of Grand Rounds.

A nice edition, and I really like the new logo.

Grand Rounds Enters Its… – Blogs – Revolution Health
Grand Rounds Enters Its Fifth Year!

Posted on 02:50PM (EDT) on 2008-09-16

Dear Medblogger Friends – I will be hosting the historic Volume 5, edition 1 of Grand Rounds on September 23rd. Please email your submissions to: valjonesmd -at- gmail -dot- com. There is no theme (I’ll accept all submissions). Please put “Grand Rounds Submission” in the subject line of your email. Please send me your URLs by midnight, Sunday, Sept. 21. Stay tuned for some breaking news… (Blog posting will be light here for a little while).

Get ‘em into Dr. Val!

Medical Humanities Blog: Grand Rounds, Vol 4, # 47
We here at MH Blog have the honor of hosting Grand Rounds this week. No theme was provided, so let’s dive in and see what the best of the med-blogosphere has to offer.

Wins a Gold.

Pure Pedantry : Grand Rounds Vol. 4 #46
… Thus, this particular edition of Grand Rounds will be South Park themed.

Kenny may or may not have been killed.

Grand Rounds: Change of the Guard

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When this series started, the word “blogger” was just entering the public consciousness. The value of healthcare blogs — to entertain, inform, and improve understanding — this was clear to us, but we weren’t really sure if anyone outside our group would ever notice.

Two hundred weeks later, every major media site has a blog on medicine and health, the industry is paying to access what physicians write online, and the transparency of blogging is transforming healthcare from the ground up (or, in some cases, from the top down).

Healthcare bloggers now have access to figures like the Surgeon General or AMA president. Healthcare bloggers write op-eds for major papers, appear on TV, and publish books.

Grand Rounds, I think, has had a role in this. …

He thinks correctly.

Please go and read it all.  I won’t steal the end, but it appears Nick has chosen worthy successors and I look forward to a continuation of Grand Rounds, whatever its direction.

Nick Genes is as talented a blogger as there is, and Grand Rounds has been his baby from the beginning.  He’s shown remarkable patience with its growing pains (and didn’t tell me to be quiet when I griped about ‘themed’ rounds), in short he was just the leader the time and situation needed.  I look forward to his EM graduation so we can have more of his time as a blogger (darned Chief Residency lifestyle…).

GruntDoc wouldn’t be anywhere without Nick and Grand Rounds; the exposure of contributing early and often drove up my traffic to all 9 of you, and I have Nick to thank for that, too.

Thanks Nick, for letting me participate, and for keeping the best medical blog carnival rolling along!

MedBlogs Grand Rounds 29 July, 2008. ‘Why do we do it?’ at edwinleap.com
Welcome to Grand Rounds! This is my first time hosting, so thanks for your patience as I stumble through. And thanks to everyone who submitted! There are some extremely insightful folks out there, and I’m grateful to showcase their thoughts.

Another nice job, in his particularly well-written style.

I’m Honored to be the first Sixth Time Host, but more importantly to be the host of the 200th Edition of MedBlogs Grand Rounds.  Dr. Nick Genes deserves all the credit for starting (and maintaining) this wandering collection of links to the best of the MedBlogosphere (thanks, Nick!).

There were more than 40 submissions this week, and here they are in the order they were received, (with my ER Doc attention span review in parenthesis at the end of the link):

The Happy Hospitalist submits an excellent diagnostic sign of malingering, the Sleeping Husband Sign (must read for acute care docs and nurses).

Highlight Health says people lie about their fruits and vegetable intake (no!) in  Did You Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables Today? (I’d have the same reporting bias, unless coffee and beer are considered grains).

Vitum Medicinus describes how his medical school tries to convince students to become family doctors…and how they really end up
doing just the opposite in The failed mandate of our family practise course (surprise: medical students didn’t get into med school by being dumb or easily influenced).

Wait Time blogs about the upside of efficient time management: having time to spend with patients in Finding Time (this says a lot about his compassion, and makes the point that being efficient doesn’t mean heartless; it’s the opposite).

Dr. Val interviewed reporter (and Texan) Bob Schieffer about his cancer in A Survivor’s Story (Dr. Val is a good interviewer, and has some amazing access).

Amanzimtoti write about visiting Americans from an NGO (ugly Americans) in Third world aid (Bad behavior should be punished, by pointing it out).

Other Things Amanzi (yes, the last two are related) relates an arresting story from the ICU: captive (that’s some determination).

Diabetes Mine interviews an inspiring diabetes educator: The Diabetes Educator We All Should See (nice interview by one of the medblog worlds’ brightest lights).

Colorado Health Insurance Insider covers a push by ACOG and the AMA to label home births as unsafe: Shame On You ACOG and AMA (seconded here).

Dr. Tienchin Ho also has something to say about this ACOG statement in HBACM Statement on Home Births (also thinks the ACOG got it wrong; new blog is focused on good birth information, home and hospital).

Dr. Shock begins a series on the Patient-Doctor relationship with Empathy (quite good).

Insure Blog has nothing nice to say about shoddy reporting in Disturbing Carrier News (read it all to see the happy ending).

FreshMD introduces me to a new term in Tonsilloliths a.k.a. throat poo (another great term for the ED).

Suture for a Living reviews , well, Major and Lethal Complications of Liposuction (Fortunately, I don’t need it this week…).

Odysseys of George finds and cures a rare cause of upper GI bleeding: A Rare Bleeder or is it really? (with pictures!).

How to Cope with Pain wonders Are You Mindful 24/7? (something I wonder about in the ED chronic pain patients…)

In Sickness and In Health finds she can vacation in My Own Private Idaho (I like happy endings in stories).

Health Business Blog on The Medicare monster (which Will eat us alive, as no politician is going to push Means Testing until we’re past broke).

Canadian Medicine reports in the over-regulation isn’t just a US thing with It’s a wrap for dangerous donairs after health warning — and good riddance, I say (I don’t want one).

HealthLines’ Health Connects wishes Nelson Mandela a Happy 90th Birthday (do I want to be 90?  No, I want to be this age twice around…).

Unique but Not Alone write about a conversation with her daughter: But we’re not like that Mom… (I’m impressed she can write about this talk at all…).

HealthLine’s The Fitness Fixer wants to set the record straight about Three Common Swimming and SCUBA Myths in the News Again (nothing about waiting after eating before swimming…).

Covert Rationing submits Fun With Randomized Trials, and Breasts (the comma is unnecessary, as is any comment from me).

Medical Jokes alerts us to an acupuncture technique guaranteed to stop, well, any problem: Roman Acupuncture (not much repeat business).

Neuroanthropology introduces us to Bench and couch: genetics and psychiatry (I read it, and I think I understand, but I hope it’s not on the test).

Notes of an Anesthesioboist on the self-describing Why The O.R. is NOT a “Meat Market,” Grey’s Anatomy Notwithstanding; and, Looking a Patient in the Mouth: What’s That About? (good intro to one aspect of the pre-anesthesia eval, and some really interesting pictures…).

Doc Gurley on steroids for atypical infections in Body’s Too Eager… (good post, but her prestigious award under her picture got my attention).

Anatomy on the Beach has some Thoughts of a Generalist (and I think the blogger is correct).

HealthLine’s Teen Health 411 (lotta HealthLine bloggers out there) says correctly Youth Need More Exercise (though I think statins in the teens is too much).

HealthLine’s Medicine for the Outdoors (the esteemed Dr. Paul Aurebach) alerts us to MRSA Madness and Tomato Update (good info on MRSA; I disagree on wound cultures, and our food supply is laughably vulnerable.  Where are those Rajneeshees, anyway?).

The Back Pain Blog answers the age-old question Sciatica and the Epidural: Are You a Candidate? (good info for those who are considering it).

Life. Not Terribly Ordinary went to dinner, and it didn’t go well.  Awkward much? (very).

Rural Doctoring submitted several (she’s on a tear these days) but this one fit: What is Transparency? (only Flea knows for sure…).

The Cockroach Catcher advises how to get out of trouble: Try Illness First, then Children (it didn’t work; read it anyway).

Clinical Cases has found a way to use Google Trends for Research (with videos, even).

Allergy Notes has found a potential screening tool for asthma: Portable Exhaled Nitric Oxide Meter as a Screening Tool for Asthma (at 52% sensitive and $4200 it’s going to be a tough sell).

Dr. Penna has an intro to Molecular Orthopaedics – What is it (orthopedists are getting smarter…).

HealthLine’s Tech Medicine has a  Review of Epocrates on the iPhone (does anyone own Palm stock anymore?  If so, why?).

HealthLine’s Fruit of the Womb has a comment string highlighting that Amniocentesis is Not Without Risk (good and bad outcomes within).

and Last but not Least,

Emergiblog thinks MedBloggers should have their own conferences, and outlines her thoughts  in A League of Our Own? (I’m in).

If you’ve read this far either I accidentally missed your submission (sorry, attach it in the comments) or you’re in desperate need of an actual life.

Or, you’re reading to see this: Next Weeks’ edition will be found at Edwin Leaps’.

Thanks for coming!

Update: Kim from Emergiblog has found an illustration of my grand round skills:

Heh.  Thanks, Kim!