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Who are the doctor bloggers and what do they want?
Coombes BMJ.2007; 335: 644-645
[Abstract] [Full Text]
Medical blogs are sometimes seen as just rants about the state of health care, but they have also been credited with spreading public understanding of science and rooting out modern day quacks. Rebecca Coombes checks out the medical blogosphere
Lacking full-text access […]

Having already had some success with it’s “Clinical Decisions” experiment (see this post and this post), NEJM has launched another interactive feature called “Perspective Forum.”

The feature establishes a topic of discussion and provides a form in which readers can post their comments.
My initial reaction is a resounding “Meh.” Wouldn’t it be preferable to have […]

What’s DoubleCheckMd.com?
DoubleCheckMD.com — developed by Enhanced Medical Decisions, Inc. — is a powerful, first-ever, online medical solution that uses “natural language” search technology, empowering users to quickly and easily find accurate information on drug interactions and reactions. DoubleCheckMD.com covers all over-the-counter and many herbal remedies as well as prescription drugs.
Check out the demonstration video
I […]

From ConnectivHealth comes PeerClip, a social bookmarking tool for physicians.

From the press release:
PeerClip, a free service exclusively for physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, allows members to add information from anywhere on the Web directly into PeerClip through a “research assistant” tool that subtly integrates in to the physician’s Web browser. As physicians […]

In order to kill some time while I’m stuck at home recuperating, I’ve installed the Ubuntu operating system on a P4 Dell that my mother-in-law no longer wanted.

I’m enjoying playing with it so far, but I’m a complete Ubuntu newbie, so I’d welcome any advice or resource recommendations.

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Even after recent pruning, my feed aggregator has 550 subscriptions- so when I get behind on my reading, it takes a while to catch up. The following are items from MedLib bloggers that have caught my attention while trying to catch up:

In a short, good post, Susan Mayer (at Learn to Live) asks, “Who […]

Should’ve mentioned:
After what I’m told was a very successful surgery with managable complications and a few more days in the hospital, I was discharged home a couple of days ago and will spend the next two weeks pretty much on the couch, recovering.
When I’m feeling reasonably coherent (I’m on a lot of pain […]

Healthy growth in Web 2.0 medical sites
San Jose Mercury News, 9/21/2007
Chatting on DailyStrength.org, LuvNHope was giving migraine-prone EyeLoveDawn an e-hug while KansasGal posted a video-journal entry about her fibromyalgia.
At the same time Thursday - but in the real world - health care blogger Matthew Holt was talking about the promise of DailyStrength.org and other so-called […]

I have a new policy: Any time I’m put under general anesthesia, I’ll stop blogging for a bit.
I’m having surgery later this afternoon and expect I won’t feel much like blogging for at least a few days after- or I may take a few weeks off from blogging. Don’t really know. I’ll […]

Regular readers know that I don’t generally post about personal matters on this blog, but this touches on my professional life enough, I think, to mention.
I’ve never been admitted to a hospital as an inpatient before a couple of days ago. I’ve never had oxygen tubes in my nostrils. I’ve never had to […]

“Can camera-equipped mobile phones make families healthier? One Canadian company says yes. Quebec-based Myca already has a hit with a service called MyFoodPhone [http://www.myfoodphone.com/], which lets users snap photos of their daily meals and send them to the company’s nutritional analysts.”
Read the rest of this short article.

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New York Times article:
“…Reed Elsevier, which publishes more than 400 medical and scientific journals, is trying an experiment that stands this model on its head. Over the weekend it introduced a Web portal, www.OncologySTAT.com, that gives doctors free access to the latest articles from 100 of its own pricey medical journals and that plans to […]

…Curious Expeditions has attempted to gather together the world’s most beautiful libraries for you…We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
Read the whole thing and see the photos here.
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Thanks to Mike for pointing this out!

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Patients with prescriptions are bypassing their local pharmacy - in favour of the library.
Doctors in the Lothians are prescribing self-help books to treat conditions such as mild depression, anxiety and eating disorders.
Following a successful trial, the scheme is being launched across East Lothian on Monday to coincide with the start of National Suicide Prevention Week.
Edinburgh […]

It looks like the article I wrote for the Journal of Hospital Librarianship is going to appear in print in Volume 7, Issue 3.
My hope was that this article would be a painless, step-by-step guide to help the medical librarian set up and start using an aggregator right away.
Many health sciences library staffers who might […]

I’ve previously mentioned my Google Custom Search Engines for Consumer Health (or Patient Education) Information and for the History of Medicine, but a couple of comments left by readers have pointed me towards more interesting CSEs:
Jere Odell points out the five interesting custom search engines at the Central Indiana Bioethics Portal, including search engines for […]

According to her blog, OrgMonkey, “Marie Kennedy is the Head, Metadata & Content Management at the Norris Medical Library of the University of Southern California. This blog is about organization, medical librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.”
In my book, any MedLib Geek who likes monkeys is the cat’s pajamas. (Note to self: Ask Marie […]

I think it was a little over a year ago that I gave up on the idea of building my own portal for medical information RSS feeds because I had started chatting with Frankie Dolan (of MedWorm and LibWorm fame) and suggesting ideas to her instead. I still get most of my medical RSS […]

Erin McKean’s TED Talk on dictionaries is wonderful. She’s brilliant and funny and she expanded my vocabulary. Watch and enjoy.

More about McKean here and here.
Also be sure to check out McKean’s blog, Dictionary Evangelist.

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Ben Heywood of PatientsLikeMe and Daniel Palestrant of Sermo are featured in this video at CNN Money.

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