Some bloggers like to participate in periodic "shows" of posts on various topics. One of the more fascinating is the Grand Rounds written by medical bloggers -- the individual posts range from high-tech to zero-tech, mundane to reaching for the Kleenex. This weeks event is being hosted by one of my favorite Med-Blogs -- the Examining Room of Dr. Charles:
Grand Rounds 211
Welcome to Grand Rounds, the weekly highlight show of medical blogging. You will be inspired, discouraged, and enlightened by these unique pieces as contributed this week by doctors, nurses, patients, and healthcare professionals who've got something to say.
I borrowed a few Norman Rockwells. He captured much of the essense of medicine through his paintings. They donned the covers of the weekly Saturday Evening Post, a compilation of current events, well-written fiction, human-interest, humorous and poetic pieces, and editorials.
Is Grand Rounds, still in its infancy, becoming the contemporary weekly portrait of medicine?
I think so:
I think so too -- here are three highlights:
It's amazing to me that there are people still denying that HIV/AIDS exists. ORAC, the surgeon/scientist/author of the blog Respectful Insolence, exposes the most recent far-right quackery in the case of child Eliza Jane Scovill's death.
That "mother" need to be beaten severely with a clue-bat. Read the post to understand why I am fuming!
Maria, a fellow literary medical blogger at her site Intueri, portrays her psychiatric visit with a bona-fide psychopath.
Not so much what he said but what he did not say -- a Hannibal Lectorish case of the twitching willies.
Dr. Mikel, of the blog Unbound Medicine, shows us a chest x-ray that "should never have been taken."
Cripes -- this guy has more hardware inside his thorax than I do in my shop!
