Greetings from Atlanta, Georgia which is about 800 miles from Doctor Anonymous World Headquarters in Northeastern Ohio. What am I doing here? Well, I'm attending my first HIMMS conference (which stands for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems) annual meeting.

These are the 37 best posts that the medical blogosphere has to offer this week. In my editors picks, I wanted to highlight what I think are well-written stories. There is also a short excerpt from each of my picks this week.

via Doctor Anonymous.

The nearly-perfect Grand Rounds.

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It’s been a while since I’ve attended a conventional medical Grand Rounds. These were events where a medical luminary would fly in to give a medical audience a state-of-the-art presentation on a medical subject. Ideally, the speaker was a thought leader and a researcher on the issue.

These presentations were usually not a demonstration of the virtue of humility. We physicians, as a class, have generous egos. Academic physicians occupy a higher rung on the ego ladder. Medical Grand Rounders (MGRs), who are on the GR speaking circuit, often must bring their own ladders to assure they will be able to reach their desired atmospheric height.

via MD Whistleblower: Whistleblower Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 22: It’s ‘Alimentary’, Doctors!.

Grand Rounds is up, with the longest preamble in GR history.  Another first!

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Welcome to Grand Rounds for February 9th. How are you? Sitting here, finalizing the posts, I am stricken by my utter inability to say anything nearly as entertaining as Dr. Rob did last week. I mean, I don’t have a single llama picture to offer you! I’m very disappointed in myself.

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No llamas?  Oh, well.  It’s still good.

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Grand Rounds from Doctor Rob.  Fun!

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via Grand Rounds – the LOL Edition! // Emergiblog.

It’s up!

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Grand Rounds Volume 6, Number 15

Welcome to Grand Rounds, the weekly collection of the best in medical blogging, featuring works from physicians, nurses, researchers, students, patients and healthcare professionals.

It’s a new year and I’m very happy to be involved again in organizing this “carnival of the caregivers.” Many thanks to Dr. Colin Son for his role in scheduling hosts, and for writing the Pre-Rounds column for Medscape.com over these past 18 months. Special thanks to Dr. Val Jones of Better Health who will continue to promote and plan GR.

He told me when we met in Las Vegas that my blog is partially responsible for his choosing Emergency Medicine as a career.  So, apologies again to Nick.  (I kid, it’s the best place to be in medicine).

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Welcome to Grand Rounds! This is volume 6, number 6…. and the 6th time I am hosting… during the week of Halloween. Does anyone else find that creepy coincidentally satanic fascinating?!

Geena joins me as a 6 time host (and I admit I’ve lost interest in MBGR, more my fault than theirs), and jolly good for her!

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Happy Birthday, Emergiblog!

While there, check out Grand Rounds

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Skinny tire themed.

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