Browsing all posts in November, 2006.

Harmless anti-depressants

For those who are feeling depressed, your first try would be to use this these nice pillowy pills wich provide a different kind of comfort than their real-drug counterparts.
Via & Source

Mesothelioma brief review

This is a paid review
Mesothelioma Aid

Mesothelioma Aid is a site for practical living with malignant mesothelioma. In addition to medical information, mesothelioma patients, their families, and their caregivers need support with real life and mesothelioma caregiving issues. Mesothelioma Aid’s focus is on providing answers to your questions and helping you best cope with what is [...]

Grand Rounds 3.10

An outstanding edition of this week’s Grand Rounds is up at Notes from Dr. RW.
Sit down and read the best of the medical blogsphere.

An oldman is declared dead by his odor

Because of the stinky scent of his house and his absence in the streets nine days ago, neighbors of a mexican state called Aguascalientes, paramedics declared Jose Luis González dead.
When paramedics opened the house were repelled by the bad odor and a dog, so they could only see the man underneath a table, and [...]

Corpus Delicti a nice play

Corpus Delicti refers to crime’s body, not just to the corpse itself but to the related body of evidence.
I would love to see this play wich is a free play that uses real-life ballistig gel cadaver to explore art & science of anatom as practiced in Holland during the Age of Enlightenment, and immortalized in [...]

Doctor’s attitude humanization

This positively affects your patients outcome.
A soon “I’m sorry”, told by the attending physician to his patient when he was mistaken in treatment or advice, could represent less sues, better patient-doctor relationship, help to avoid future mistakes and improves trust of patients in their doctors.
In the US, 98,000 people dies every year by medical mistakes. [...]

Ectopia cordis

This is a clinical image of a baby with ectopia cordis (it means that his heart is outside his chest) treated with surgery and had a great outcome.

You can find the complete story, right here.
Thanks to Kevin, M.D.

Grand Rounds 3.9

Great edition of Grand Rounds is up at Doctor Anonymous.
Good work, Dr. A.

Omax3 Review

This is a paid review

Have you ever got a lipids profile?
A nice recommendation is to get a lipid profile by the age of 20 y.o.
If your General Practitioner found abnormalities in your lipid profile it’s probable that he will order you to modify your lifestile (exercise, diet, take a cup of red wine daily, quit [...]

Fallot’s Tetralogy in a 8 y.o. girl

While on his community service, my friend Dr. Víctor Hugo Roa-Castro, just diagnosed a girl with Fallot’s Tetralogy (a congenital heart disease), wich consists in the combination of a ventricular septal defect (VSD) with Pulmonary Stenosis, with the Aorta “Overriding” (sitting “astride”) the VSD and with right ventricle hypertrophy (RVH).
It’s about 10% of all types [...]

Scrubs Gallery

This is a paid review:

This review is about the online uniforme boutique (Scrubs Gallery), wich have the greatest scrub collection.
Within its catalogue they have a vast collection of lab coats for both man and woman (31) and men’s scrubs (lots), but the main market is for women with three different styles in solid and printed [...]

Volkmanns ischemic contracture

The brachial artery is the major artery that transverses the antecubital fossa; injury to the brachial artery will cause radiating pain, decreased skin temperature, decreased pulses, and pallor of the distal arm and may result in Volkmann contracture.
The Volmann’s ischemic contracture is a contracture of the flexor muscles and median and ulnar nerve palsies. a [...]

New advertising system

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Via Text Link Ads, I have found a new way of advertising, it is called ReviewMe. This great idea, it’s a blog advertising system that will allow advertisers to contact me in order to review their products, web sites or services.
Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall are the creators of this [...]

I did it

I haven’t written in a while because I am involved in thousands of transact that seem endless.
The Good News: I passed the exam, so I’m going to be a surgeon.
Now, the problem is not the exam itself. When you go for it, and study a lot, you can pass it, but passing the exam isn’t [...]