HEALTH MEDIA

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

Squidoo Backs Down On ‘Brand Campaign’ As Many Are ‘Not so Happy’ About It http://bit.ly/3LSvCk -- Brands in Public: Mayo Clinic http://bit.ly/iBnaI asks "Love or Hate - What do you think of Mayo Clinic?" - Is there anything in between? This ‘Brand Campaign’ does not look like a good idea in general. The companies can opt out of the program however. It is strange how they ask people to comment with "love or hate" - it is quite polarizing...

Best Websites for Kindle (mobile) - please add more to the wiki at Google Docs - open to anybody to edit http://j.mp/kindle33

Did you know there's now a year view in Google Calendar? Check out this and other Labs here: http://bit.ly/bLNEq via @googlecalendar

BuzzVoice Makes Blogs TALK on Your iPhone http://bit.ly/1eGVk9

Faces of the World: U.S. President and First Lady With World Leaders at the Metropolitan Museum in New York http://bit.ly/4y4Wzl

"Geolocation Publishing Freaks People Out - Scoble checks into the Ritz hotel near his home when he’s home" http://bit.ly/8olKQ

Tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

Google Scholar replaces author names in articles with P Login (for Please Login) and P Options (for Payment Options) http://bit.ly/hA6SW -- Google’s algorithms create phantom authors for millions of papers. http://bit.ly/hA6SW

"Google Scholar - A Personal Journey" by John Sharp http://bit.ly/27kS1V

Using fMRI machines, researchers try to guess what's in someone's head and "build a functional brain-reading device" http://bit.ly/1avDZP

Januvia and Janumet to change the prescribing information to note reports of acute pancreatitis http://bit.ly/dBcZh

DeBakey made the first Dacron vascular graft on his wife's sewing machine, used it for an aortic aneurysm the next day http://bit.ly/1nVg7J

"Typical professor of surgery: ebullient, extrovert, and confident" - The Lancet http://bit.ly/5UZjo

Tobacco smoking is a sad testament to humankind's propensity to self-harm http://bit.ly/2wWAPQ

Pop star Nick Jonas talks about his diabetes type 1 diagnosis http://bit.ly/l2JWm

Alcoholic hand gel removed from prison after inmates use it to make 'hooch' http://bit.ly/61quO

Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Video: Presenting to an Attending physician

The video below was created by Nova Southeastern University - College of Osteopathic Medicine (NSU-COM) to help second-year medical students prepare for communicating patient information to an attending physician.

Presenting to an Attending physician

Friday, September 25, 2009

Video: Routine Miracles with Dr. Conrad Fischer: Rheumatology

"This book covers medical advances that would once have been called miracles but are now merely routine. The patients' stories within this book yield hope, optimism, and triumph. This is the best time to come out of medical school and training. This fact will inspire and uplift everyone in the medical profession as well as all of us who must, at some point, rely on the art of medicine to see us through." -- Conrad Fischer, M.D.

Visit http://seefisch.wordpress.com for more information about Dr. Fischer and Routine Miracles or follow Dr. Fischer on Twitter: @SeeFisch

See all videos of Routine Miracles with Dr. Conrad Fischer on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2TPUkU

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

@BoraZ asks: "Has any science blogger ever pre-published a paper on their blog?" - Many journals will not accept your paper if "pre-published." I regularly publish ideas on my blog that become abstracts/papers but never full manuscripts.

View online files using the Google Docs Viewer http://bit.ly/4bmisd

Day in the Life of a Google Docs Student: Practical Examples http://bit.ly/PX5wz

Multidimensional Twittology from The Washington Post and The Colors of Dreams http://bit.ly/4Mm6R

A mnemonic more complicated than the content to be remembered: http://bit.ly/38PFV4 - Defeats the purpose.

LIFE magazine now available on Google Books http://bit.ly/wVfIm via @LanceUlanoff

Math and Science Tutoring on YouTube http://bit.ly/4BajaK - Khan Academy has 800 videos http://bit.ly/3JD0Bk - What is "Khan Academy"?

Yahoo Brands Flickr: “Flickr from Yahoo” - Users Retaliate http://bit.ly/12tJ6I

Emergency Medicine MCQ http://bit.ly/3vU65H

10 Best Things We'll Say to Our Grandkids http://bit.ly/AeuxC

Health News of the Day

Flu Shot More Effective Than Nasal Spray http://bit.ly/uk9S2

More than 124,000 people in Europe developed cancer last year because they are overweight. Women who had weight-loss surgery were 42% less likely to develop cancer during a 10-year study http://bit.ly/46Nb4U

A small but statistically significant number of patients die each year when junior doctors start work http://tinyurl.com/mlmgdy

WHO: Growing resistance to artemisinin - used to treat multi-drug resistant strains of falciparum malaria http://bit.ly/IrRB2

Patients who feel rushed through a medical exam have lower satisfaction rates. http://bit.ly/18IoBb

iPhone FoodScanner Makes Calorie Counting a Breeze http://bit.ly/NpDQ5

Public Misunderstanding Of Studies http://bit.ly/ROOBR

Meet the ancestors: Indian population history from gene screening http://bit.ly/QCmvw

"Death by Caffeine Test: How much of your favorite energy drink, soda, or caffeinated food would it take to kill you?" http://bit.ly/WtL3f

BBC: 'Tweeting' medics expose patients, many postings included profanity and discriminatory language. http://bit.ly/rCHnS -- I suggested this long time ago: medical students should be taught about risks associated with social media.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Doctors add expert insights and comments about websites in Google Sidewiki

From Google:

"As you browse the web, it's easy to forget how many people visit the same pages and look for the same information. What if everyone, from a local expert to a renowned doctor, had an easy way of sharing their insights with you about any page on the web? What if you could add your own insights for others who are passing through?

Google Sidewiki allows you to contribute helpful information next to any webpage. Google Sidewiki appears as a browser sidebar, where you can read and write entries along the side of the page."

Here are two examples how doctors add expert insights and comments about websites in Google Sidewiki:

- Michael Roizen http://bit.ly/132azY

- Steven Nissen http://bit.ly/10HWLk

Both are prominent physicians at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic.

A few comments on this new Google service are posted below:

Google Steps Where Many Have Stumbled: Sidewiki http://bit.ly/2fxwqC

@Scobleizer: "Google Sidewiki is latest attempt by big company to make money off of my content on my blog. I really hate companies that let people put stuff on top of my content without my consent."

Google Launches Sidewiki — More Like a Universal Commenting System http://bit.ly/nMwvN

Related:
How to Claim Your Website’s Google Sidewiki http://bit.ly/6m89E

Updated: 10/04/2009