“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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…

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 [...]

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 [...]

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! [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Be still my beating heart. We have a great round-up of this week’s best health blog posts over at Dr. Wes. Dr. Wes is a cardiologist, specializing in rhythms of the heart. Each post this week, which range from the light-hearted to the heart-wrenching, is sorted into categories of heart electrical rhythms - a really [...]

Can the BeeGees’ disco-beat mean the difference between life and death? Could a glitter ball of rhythm be your own, personal, proven, life-saving weapon? You’ve read some outrageous stuff here at Doc Gurley, but this time you’re not buying it, are you? Let me guess, you’re saying to yourself, give me a break - there’s [...]

One of the keys to developing a joy habit is to recognize the hidden gems sitting right under our noses, covered with a coating of everyday dust. Sometimes, however, these gems appear and blind you with their brilliant rays of hope - which is what happened to me at Wright State Medical School last week. [...]

This week sees a new approach to Grand Rounds–a trio of hosts, all passing off the Grand Rounds baton to one after the other, each speaking tongue-in-cheek. To see where the Doc Gurley post is included, go here. To start at the beginning, go to Grunt Doc.