Tag: medicine
member name: jonathan H.
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December 19, 2007 07:58 PM EST --
I am a pathologist. A colleague showed me a biopsy with what he perceived to be an abnormality. I thought the finding was probably normal anatomy in a location that is rarely biopsied. . . . more
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May 24, 2008 05:28 PM EDT --
I'm reposting this articel from Medscape in case you missed it.
Prerna Mona Khanna, MD, MPH
Medscape J Med. 2008;10(5):113.
At this point, it really doesn't . . . more
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October 19, 2007 08:39 PM EDT --
I had the pleasure of using the medical library archives this week.
I performed an autopsy on a woman who was insensitive to thyroid hormone (her body acted as if she didn’t have a thyroid gland . . . more
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September 21, 2007 02:16 PM EDT --
Academic medicine can be demoralizing. The usual benchmarks of personal success (peer reviewed publications, solving medical mysteries, national invitations for lectures, grants, society offices) are disconnected . . . more
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March 09, 2008 09:44 AM EDT --
I just returned from our Academy of Pathology meeting in Denver. Chris Fletcher from BWH delivered a pessimistic keynote lecture on the "future of academic pathology."
He sited . . . more
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December 20, 2007 09:35 PM EST --
Background:
I recently attended a lecture by Dr. George Lundberg, the editor of MedGenMed, the largest online open-access (free) peer-reviewed medical journal. Lundberg is a bit of a crackpot, but very . . . more
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December 01, 2007 02:47 PM EST --
Google has invested in a company offering a $1,000. genetic test that allows participants to trace their evolutionary ancestry and calculate the genetic risk of various diseases. The site ( 23and me.com . . . more
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January 25, 2008 12:10 PM EST --
I got an e-mail from the computer tech guy in my old department. Here's the exchange.
Subject: Old time MAC ...
Hi
Hopeyou are well. Remember the Power PC MAC in BWH Cytology. . . . more
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March 11, 2008 07:41 PM EDT --
Finally, a great description of my job...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFb7smyVEyg
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January 31, 2008 09:32 PM EST --
I've been thinking of Kotel Notes, the custom of placing prayers on scraps of paper into cracks of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
(Nowadays, you can even pray by proxy by sending an e-mail to a . . . more
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