Thoughts on Israel – trip day #1

I probably will still do some medical blogging while on vacation, but primarily I want to keep a record of an exciting vacation.

Time to redesign residencies

Once upon a time (actually when I did my residency), we worked long hours, were taught well and learned from our patients.

Recently at dinner a pediatric nurse practitioner made a comment that we need more “old fashioned” physicians.

The article highlights the MKSAP 16 iPad app as convenient, user-friendly, and helpful for improving medical study efficiency and access.

The message argues for revisiting the 1994 Dietary Supplement Act to prevent marketing unsafe supplements.

This one is more complex than smoking. We can test patients for smoking regularly, and so can insurance companies.

That definition is very helpful because some of the screening panels also provide results that might come from an auto-immune condition.

Enough medicine blogging. The rest of this year I will list my favorites in various media – TV, movies, music and books.

I know that it is corny and probably not dignified, but it almost always gets a smile from the patient, the house officers and the students.

I urge everyone to read this beautifully written and argued op-ed, written by a man with life-long severe disability.