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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Grand Rounds Smack Down

April 29, 2008 – 12:03 am

“Are you ready to ruum-ble? This week here at Doc Gurley is the Grand Rounds Smack Down edition, where the best contenders of the health care blogosphere wrestle down and dirty with tough, scary topics. Just like being in the ring, there’s no orderly progression of characters here – this ain’t ballet, folks. At [...]

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Gack! I Never Thought I’d Say It…

April 25, 2008 – 4:01 pm

The words just don’t want to come out of my mouth – hang on a sec while I give my chest a thump – okay, here goes: It’s time for all of us to stand up for our local smokers’ rights. See, I’m passionately anti-tobacco. I watched cigarettes kill my dad. I see patients struggle [...]

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His Daveness…AGAIN!

April 23, 2008 – 11:11 am

It was a grey day. I broke my fingernail. Sartre-like ennui pervaded my very soul, seeping through me like a miasma – much like the way an ominous green spill pervades a super-absorbent Hefty-brand towelette during Saturday morning TV ads. We’re talking a total soul suck. With a death-rattle sigh, I dragged my pale fingers [...]

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This Week’s Touchy Feely Grand Rounds

April 22, 2008 – 5:26 pm

This week’s Grand Rounds roundup of posts from medical blogs is loosely based on the limbic system and emotion. it is hosted at revolutionhealth by Dr. Val and is a HUGE roundup with lots of great posts. Go take a look…

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Playing Surgeon

April 20, 2008 – 2:49 pm

I, Doc Gurley, spent the last two days playing surgeon. Eleven hours each day, I went into a temporary emergency tent and shivered over hot coffee. There were lectures, then practical skills stations where I did procedures on rubber dummies while pre-eminent surgeons watched and critiqued me until I got it right. Let’s just say [...]

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Grand Rounds Gathering Here!

April 20, 2008 – 12:30 pm

Grand Rounds in medicine often means a morgue-cold auditorium, a sea of starched white coats, and staccato squeaks from irritable chairs. Doc Gurley is hosting April 29th’s Grand Rounds of the medical blogosphere with a more WWF-type approach: Grand Rounds Smack Down Week. Do you want to take on a behemoth topic with some chest-beating [...]

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Settle in For A Great Read…

April 15, 2008 – 9:42 pm

All you need is a cup of tea! This week’s Grand Rounds of the best of the health blogosphere is at Women’s Health News. Ms. Walden did the kind of witty, clear, and compelling summary that only a medical librarian (instead of we mere mortals) could hope to achieve. The bar has been set high! [...]

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Heparin Horrors

April 13, 2008 – 3:48 pm

In a sad follow-up to the Doc Gurley article, Is Your Medicine Contaminated?, independent authorities have now increased the number of deaths due to contaminated heparin from 19 to over 100. The manufacturer, Baxter, hopes we’ll believe claims there were only 4 (not a big surprise to those of us who are familiar with drug [...]

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Bogus Sluts

April 11, 2008 – 11:57 am

I’ll bet some of you regular Doc Gurley readers already guessed that we’d be handing out a BOGUS Award to that widely-publicized example of deeply flawed research–the study stating that you can tell if someone’s into love or lust, purely from their facial features. Slut or not? – just look at the width of her [...]

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Dave Barry Delights

April 9, 2008 – 10:34 am

Another Doc Gurley question has been answered at the (in)famous Dave Barry for President Forum! Yes, actual words typed by an actual comedic genius. What’s with the Dave Barry obsession? Well, giggles, mayhem, and snorting-milk-out-the-nose are all fine symptoms of a successfully cultivated Joy Habit. Check it out! (while we go get a mop for [...]

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