Please see below for this week’s Grand Rounds. The submissions were all over the spectrum this week, but we included almost all bloggers who submitted working links.
InsideSurgery’s Picks
Behavioral Ecology Blog discusses new upcoming medical research protocols that you may not have a choice about being a patient in
Outdoor Medicine has a fun post (that has nothing to do with medicine!!!) on how to deskunk a dog
The Process of Getting or Being Sick
Universal Health posts on who will die in a pandemic
The Cushing’s Disease Journey reports on being five days post-operatively
ScienceRoll opines on 10 tips for getting a disease
A Changing Life gives a woman’s thoughts on female circumcision
Technology in Medicine covers the risks of Avandia
Aetiology discusses the critical shortage of doctors in Africa
Freedom From Smoking reports on trying to talk sense to the tobacco industry
Fruit of the Womb outlines the association between folate metabolism and Down syndrome
Six Until Me posts about having diabetes
People in the News
Doctor Anonymous writes on the Kevorkian Effect
Insureblog gives an opinion on Andrew Speaker
Diabetesmine reports on a sobering life incident for bodybuilder Doug Burns
Technology in Medicine and Health
The Story of Healing has an article on medicine and the internet
Eye on DNA talks about a gene mapping project in Canada
Healthline Connects talks about information technology in health
From Babe World
Chronicbabe has an article on friends and generosity
Gluten-freebabe announces her intention to get off the you know what
Ditzy doctor wannabe talks about the lack of fun in life
The Rest
Nurse Ratched’s Place talks about whether bloggers are an endangered species
Med Journal Watch talks about fitness and obesity
Health Business Blog is featuring an interview with Joseph Woodman about medical tourism
Clinical Cases and Images writes about salami slicing
Colorado Health Insurance Insider tries to figure out how much his surgery is going to cost
The Fitness Fixer covers iron levels and blood donation
ERnursery talks about resuscitating a patient
Emergiblog muses on how great it is to be a nurse blogger
Dr. Bruce Campbell quizzes medical residents on how to spell medical terms
Junk Food Science details the marketing buzz behind the new drug Alli
The Forgotten Blue Line on the what it is like for hospital security to respond to a code
The End
