Medical Executive-Post (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Very … It’s Imperative By Staff Reporters Emergency physician Shadowfax is recruiting doctors for his hospital, and balances the typical choices one must make balancing clinical knowledge versus interpersonal skills. Deal-Breaker One deal-breaker is the lack of modern computer skills. Unfortunately, in this modern age, if an employee can’t use a computer effectively … read...
Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
How important is it for doctors to have computer skills? It’s imperative. Emergency physician Shadowfax is recruiting doctors for his hospital, and balances the typical choices one must make balancing clinical knowledge versus interpersonal skills. One deal breaker, he notes, is the lack of computer skills: Unfortunately, in this modern age, if an employee can’t use a computer effectively,...
Life in the Fast lane (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Big hat tip to Shadowfax (aka @MovinMeat), author of the great accidental ER blog 'Movin' Meat'.
Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
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JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Pre-order Espirito at amazon.com Many believe that the arts mirror what is happening in the world and if that is the case, perhaps Lawson Rollins’ Espirito serves as a monumental soundtrack to the unification of our disparate cultures. The guitarist’s epic thirteen-song collection, to be released January 19th by Infinita Records, which is distributed by Baja/TSR Records, serves as the very...
Cogitamus (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
I dedicate this terrific bit of parody to Stephen, iPhone newbie and fellow pointer-outer of Republican homophobia sexism racism fanatic Christianism hypocrisy ah...let's say all of the above, plus abject Republican insanity. We are, all of us, compelled to point...
Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
I dedicate this terrific bit of parody to Stephen , iPhone newbie and fellow pointer-outer of Republican homophobia sexism racism fanatic Christianism hypocrisy ah...let's say all of the above, plus abject Republican insanity . We are, all of us, compelled to point it out to you on an ongoing basis, since they keep topping themselves. Via Shadowfax , the awesomest ER doc in the northeast.
Freehand Films (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
A popular motif in jewelry, even among city dwellers, is horses. Horse jewelry is enigmatic and evokes a sense of strength as well as of mystery. Now one would have to ask: why horses? Why care about an animal rarely seen in the city anyway? Horses symbolize freedom, and pride in freedom. Wild horses come with [...]
Movin' Meat (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Nice dodge there, Dr. Shadowfax. I'd like to review a couple of journal articles for all the ER folks out there who may not be familiar with the pediatric literature, to aid you in the management of patients such as the school-age kid with pleocytosis. I'm not sure about the literature in the adult world, since I stopped caring following it closely a dozen years ago or more. In the world of kids though,...
Movin' Meat (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
A couple of weeks ago the good Dr. Shadowfax treated us to a humorous cartoon explaining the healthcare debate. In the cartoon we see that Medicare only spends around 3% of the money it receives on administrative overhead, whereas private insurers typically spend 3-6 times that amount while paying their executives obscene amounts of cash as a reward for denying patients the care they need. Catron gave...
Movin' Meat (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Greetings and salutations to all of Dr. Shadowfax's loyal readers! Allow me to briefly introduce myself: I'm a pediatrician working primarily in a hospital setting. I was born and grew up south of the border, but came to the USA at the start of college. It was then that I met Dr. Shadowfax, and I have had the privilege of calling him one of my best friends for most of my adult life. Although we did...
Movin' Meat (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
01 October 2009 Posted by shadowfax at 0 comments: Subscribe to: ShadowfaxAbout me: I am an ER physician and administrator living in the Pacific Northwest. I live with my wife and three kids. Various other interests include Shorin-ryu karate, general aviation, Irish music, Apple computers, and progressive politics. My kids do their best to ensure that I have little time to pursue these hobbies.Contact...
Technology, Books and Other Neat St (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
00:06:59 : Heading home after a fantastic dinner at The Glasshouse. A really spectacular tasting menu with excellent wine parings. Recommended. 00:51:20 : As @ tcannoy (a delightful dinner companion) points out, it was of course The Greenhouse, not The Glasshouse. Mea culpa! 09:35:09 : Something vaguely disturbing about cereal that turns your milk purple. 09:37:33 : 1500 Twitter followers can't be...
Rogue Medic (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Shadowfax writes about a heartbreaking case of a victim of alternative medicine. The Human Cost of Woo . Woo is a term for alternative medicine , or anecdotal medicine , or unicorn medicine , but one thing that all of these terms lack is the ability to make clear that the one thing these are not is medicine . Medicine - noun - something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease....
Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
One bane of emergency physicians are patient satisfaction scores, which some hospitals use in part to determine physician salaries. Often times, if patients are denied, say, opioid medications, they’re more likely to give low scores, which the hospital administration can then use to penalize doctors. Of course, this creates an incentive to give patients everything [...] Posted at KevinMD.com...
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