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It’s about the time for our annual frightfest - darkness will soon settle over us. Wails and shrieks will fill the air (and that’s just the moms wrestling kids into costumes). Here is a short checklist of practical healthy Halloween tips:
1) Visibility. This one’s a trick-y (ahem) subject with, oddly enough, older kids. Young ones, [...]

It’s creeping up behind you, silent and sinister. It’s (buh buh BUH BUH) Daylight Savings Monday! Honestly, it’s no joke that more people die the Monday after we adjust clocks - and for tragically preventable reasons. Last March, when we were springing forward, the increase in deaths was due to road fatalities from decreased morning [...]

This week’s Grand Rounds is a treat for those who take the time to head over to Emergiblog and check it out. This week’s host, Kim, is a fun, personable, informed, and powerful voice in the increasingly crowded heathcare-blogging scene. This week she lines up the many zinger posts that were sent her way and [...]

How would you like to learn about the world’s most mysterious medical problem? Independent auditors from the accounting firm of Cost-Riverhut have verified that this video fully complies with the Doc Gurley Trademark Motto: Just a spoonful of humor helps the medicine go down. So take a few minutes to watch this Doc Gurley Medeo [...]

What if you only had 2 minutes to explain the importance of doing something good for the world? That’s the challenge present to me by the wonderful folks at WellSphere, when I was nominated for an Everyday Heroes Award. Take a minute (okay, two) and see my response, below:
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It’s a mere seven (count them, 7!) days until the World Premiere Red Carpet (okay, well, reddish - we’ve spilled some food on it) Launch of the first ever Doc Gurley video - The Lost Tampon! Helicopters are whirring overhead, papparazzi are milling outside, and numbered, engraved invitations have been sent…to YOU! Tune in next [...]

Okay, so I was officially an Olympic-level grump for yesterday’s National Grouch Day. Our clinic lost a superb human being - and a wonderful clinician - to a sudden, untreatable paroxysm of (brace yourself for this one) retirement. Excuse me? How selfish is that? Doesn’t he know there are more important issues at stake here [...]

Grand Rounds is back! And this time the host, T, of ‘Notes From An Anesthesioboist‘ (classical music while you go under? sounds lovely) is hosting in six parts, each introduced by a snippet from a classic movie.
It’s a HUGE list this time with tons and tons of great entries. So go take a look…

In a BBC news report on a preliminary research discovery that testicles may become a source for stem cells, Professor Robin Lovell-Badge (how British is that name?) is quoted as saying that further work needs to be done; therefore the issue “will have to be left dangling a little longer.” Could you turn your head [...]

Here’s a truly provocative study - looking at whether or not reading a novel about positive images and weight loss can affect the weight of severely overweight tweens. And the answer is…(envelope please) YES. Turns out that girls who were randomly assigned to read a novel with positive messages and information about healthy weight loss [...]

For a lovely bit of fiction that rings as true as crystal, head over to the Atlantic magazine. A short story by Julie Shumaker, titled Patient, Female explores the world of professional patients, the doctors in training who depend on them (and can intentionally or unintentionally offend them) and the tangled family ties that medicine/healthcare [...]

Okay, everyone who thinks they can multi-task, raise your hand (while returning that call from your client). There’s a nice summary on NPR about how the brain actually works - which debunks the myth that we can truly multi-task. What the executive function of the brain does (in our frontal lobes) is switch between activities, [...]

1) Check - The first week of October is Fire Prevention Week. Now is a great time to run through a short list of crucial prevention tasks. First, make sure you have a fire evacuation plan for your residence. Do you need a rope-ladder for second-floor bedrooms? Second, do you have an active smoke detector [...]