Blogs about: Medical Musings

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What kind of day am I having?!?5 comments

PalMD wrote 3 months ago: Hmmm…let’s see… The hospital kept paging me all night.  I have a whole bunch of … more »

Tags: Medicine, health

Dying sucks (so I'm told)3 comments

PalMD wrote 3 months ago: This story came up recently among some folks I know, so I’m reposting it. –PalMD I … more »

Tags: BEST OF, health, Medicine, Personal reflections

Adventure!

alphaoverlord wrote 8 months ago: Today was one of the best afternoons I’ve had since coming to Rice. I couldn’t stop smil … more »

Tags: Reviews, 1

I'b sigck2 comments

notratched wrote 8 months ago: This is how I am talking today. Everyone direct positive vibes toward my immune system, which has fa … more »

Tags: Nursing tips, Miscellany about my life

No one gets HIV anymore...1 comment

PalMD wrote 9 months ago: …unless you look for it. In some of my previous posts (here, and here, and sort of here) I … more »

Tags: Medicine, health

Volunteering at Ben Taub

alphaoverlord wrote 9 months ago: Last Thursday was my first day volunteering at Ben Taub General Hospital. I volunteer in the Emergen … more »

Tags: Volunteering, medical musing, ben taub, EC

Vocabulary for nurses5 comments

notratched wrote 9 months ago: Did I fall off the turnip truck, or have all the nurses I keep hearing say “exasperation … more »

Tags: rants

Salt your way to health, Part I

PalMD wrote 9 months ago: As it turns out, in my own neck of the woods there is a small woo-factory. I came upon it when I sa … more »

Tags: health, Medicine, pseudoscience, Quackery, woo

My dog ate it

PalMD wrote 9 months ago: For better or worse, people are more than just complicated machines. As I’ve written about ea … more »

Tags: Medicine, health

How do you save people from themselves?1 comment

PalMD wrote 9 months ago: Or should you even try? If you are a physician, the answer to the second question is “yes … more »

Tags: Medicine, health

Other people's lives2 comments

PalMD wrote 9 months ago: Being a doctor, you get very intimate glimpses into other people’s lives. This is one of the … more »

Tags: Medicine

Where the fever demon strews poison/with the falling dews1 comment

PalMD wrote 9 months ago: A man came to the office a while back.  He had been feeling unwell for several days.  He had fever … more »

Whoopie in the news again

PalMD wrote 10 months ago: Just a reminder, since it’s been a while since I bothered everyone. Pertussis (whooping cough … more »

Tags: Medicine, pertussis (Whooping cough), health

What do you want to die of?7 comments

PalMD wrote 10 months ago: He was wheeled into the office by a young man, maybe his son, I’m not sure. He overflowed the … more »

Tags: health

No, you're not an idiot...1 comment

PalMD wrote 10 months ago: I just read a wonderful post by a fellow medical blogger pondering how to deal with woo when it come … more »

Tags: woo, health

Crackpot sues biologist

PalMD wrote 10 months ago: PZ Myers of Pharyngula fame is actually being sued for reviewing a book at the author’s reques … more »

Tags: pseudoscience, woo

What your grandmother told you12 comments

PalMD wrote 3 months ago: My residents sometimes complain about all the patients who come to see them with the common cold. A … more »

Tags: Medicine, health

Combat zone4 comments

notratched wrote 4 months ago: I had clinicals all day Thursday and Friday and then worked 12’s on Saturday and Sunday (days! … more »

Tags: Health Care, Miscellany about my life, Nursing, Nursing School

Staying on mission6 comments

PalMD wrote 5 months ago: I was doing my daily reading over at ScienceBlogs and decided a bit of a mission statement might be … more »

Tags: Culture Wars, Medicine, health, Back Room


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