We are in orbit around a remote County emergency department. My crew of young interns is greener than a vat of Vulcan hemoglobin, and being of the Millennial generation they insist on bringing their stuffed Tribbles to work with them. New Federation-mandated work hour restrictions make them as useless as a Romulan lounge singer at a Ferengi bar mitzvah.

My second year resident—Dr. Spock—insists on quoting evidence-based guidelines to me, reminding me constantly that my ad hoc treatment regimens are “highly illogical.” And our respiratory therapist Scotty tells me our CPR dummy “is barely holding together…she can’t take much more o’ this!” Worse still, some redshirt made a documentary of our adventures and put it on StarTube:

via The Wrath of Dr. Khan.

A taste of the ZDogg video empire:

Seriously: Genius. I am humbled.

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I’m honored to be hosting Grand Rounds for the fourth time. This is not the GR theme today, but I did want to mention that it’s Doctor’s Day tomorrow in the United States. Doctor’s Day was first observed on March 30, 1933. Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr. Charles Almond, decided to set aside a day to honor physicians.

The red carnation is commonly used as the symbolic flower for National Doctors Day. In 1990, law was passed designating March 30 as “National Doctors Day.” Big shout out to all my physician colleagues out there!

via Family Medicine Rocks – Family Medicine Rocks Blog – Mike Sevilla, MD – Grand Rounds Volume 7 Number 27.

From the formerly anonymous Dr. Anonymous, it’s the well-known Dr. Mike Sevilla at his new blog, Family Medicine Rocks.

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Grand Rounds, the Cliff’s Notes of the medical blogosphere. Each week a different medblogger reads through peer submissions and summarizes/organizes them all into one blog post (using their own unique structure or theme). Instructions for participation (and hosting) are here.

When I host Grand Rounds I like to organize the posts into emotion categories – kind of the way that movies are categorized into “drama, action, comedy, etc.” This achieves two goals: first, readers have the option of starting with their favorite emotion – maybe you need a “pick me up” or maybe you’re looking for something to get your blood pumping? Second, I get a general feeling for how my fellow bloggers are feeling these days. Judging from the volume of posts in each category, it seems that the majority of you are either surprised or outraged!

via Better Health.

Nicely done!

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This is my 7th time to Host (first Seven Timer), and it’s always an honor. I asked everyone who submitted to send the date of their first blog post. After graphing them it’s a waste of time, nothing to see, you’re spared/welcome. Thanks everyone, anyway.

28 submissions by 27 authors, thanks to all.

First, the only post recommended by someone other than themselves (Liaka’s MedLibLog offered this, and kudos) is Dr. Wes with Social Media and The Challenge of Overcoming the Challenge of Intellectual Complacency. Tests (really, information / teaching) via Twitter. This would be cool, were I not complacent.

I’m partial to the ‘Joe Friday’ version of Grand Rounds, and here you are, in the order of submission:

BJC Connected Care: Am I a better doctor if I wore a tie? (Grammar alert). I don’t ever wear a tie in patient care.

Suture for a Living: Advertising. Not for her.

The Sterile Eye: Mirror of the Body. Medical photography of the past, with mirrors. Possibly NSFW.

GlassHospital: Beyond a spoonful of sugar. Points out an Alzheimer’s hospital that has it right.

InsureBlog: Pots, Pans and EMR. Overcrowding meets ingenuity. Shame it has to.

Get Better Health: Why Yoga Might Make me a Better Doctor. Well, if you’re not going to wear a tie…

Billy Rubin’s Blog: Readmission Rates as a Means to measure Hospital Quality. It’s more complicated than apples to apples. More apples to Kumquats. (Fun blog name).

Colorado Health Insurance Insider: When the Media recommends over-consumption of healthcare. Prevention…

Health Business Blog: myDrugCosts provides transparency on a mobile platform. Patient empowering. Nice.

HUB’s LIST: Cranberry Juice, Medical fun facts…. Various medical doings in easy bullet format.

Covert Rationing Blog: How to sell assisted suicide. Death is cheap. Who pays the bills?

ACP Internist Blog: Overdiagnosis and the potential for harming patients. Culture of illness. Nice description.

ACP Hospitalist Blog: ZDoggMD’s Hard Doc’s Life. Worth a watch!

HealthBlawg: Measuring patient experience of care. Happy patients, measured.

health AGEnda: Caring begins at home. Elder family, and challenges.

DrPullen.com: Excess Death. Stop smoking. Really.

D.O.ctor: The D. O. dialog. Misconceptions and the D.O.

Behaviorism and Mental Health: Overeating is not an illness. DSM. (Follow the money).

In White Ink: Pride and Prejudice. Happens. (Based loosely on a recent flamewar).

Hanging by a Stethoscope: Are Resident Physicians Workers or Students? Supremes say Workers. Get the bennies, then.

scan man’s notes: A Parable of Rigidity. Red tape.

The Happy Hospitalist: Before and After Arby’s Fast Food Pictures. Maybe overeating is an illness.

Medical Lessons: The King’s Speech is Not Just About Stuttering. A movie I need to see, apparently.

Laika’s MedLibLog: The Web 2.0-EBM Medicine Split. Nice! Go read. No summary for you.

Pensive Pediatrician: Text4Baby. Interesting idea. Leveraging cell phones for baby messaging.

WhiteCoat’s Call Room: Birthright? Patient want the right to tape in hospitals: so, the reverse is okay?

Aggravated DocSurg: Henny Penny in the Hospital. Catastrophizing. Word of the Day.

If yours isn’t in here I lost your email, or my dog at my HTML. Either way, drop it in the comments, and Mea Culpa.

Next Week’s Host: Dr. Rich’s Covert Rationing Blog! Thanks to Nick for starting it, and to Val for helping keep it going. And my wife for understanding.

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ALSO, please include the date of your first blog post, doesn’t have to be your current blog. I want to get a sense of the state of the medblogosphere.

Deadline is noon your time, Monday the 14th (Valentines’ Day).  Happy Blogging!

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Grand Rounds Vol 7 No 20

It is my pleasure to bring you this week’s Grand Rounds. As I am sick of winter and looking forward to spring, I am going to sprinkle this edition with images of some beaches near the contributors. Enjoy!

via Suture for a Living: Grand Rounds Vol 7 No 20.

Go hither, and enjoy Dr. Bates’ excellent compilation.

Come here tomorrow, and I’ll announce the guidelines for next weeks’ Grand Rounds.

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I once worked with a psychiatrist who called listening the most underrated skill, and his words are truer now than ever. Listening is hard work; too often, we just wait for our turn to talk. And that’s if we’re being polite. We don’t talk to each other; we talk at each other or sometimes over each other in the loudest voice possible.

At Dispatch from Second Base

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Grand Rounds!

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It’s up, it’s great, I’m late.

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Welcome to Grand Rounds, a weekly collection of excellent writings submitted by medical bloggers. The theme for this week is minimalism – I’m going to restrain myself and let the authors speak for themselves:

via Grand Rounds, May 11th Edition.

Up a little early.  I like the minimalist approach.

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