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Grand Rounds 3:23

#1 Dinosaur hosts Grand Rounds this week–a nice, succinct presentation in a classic prose format. (pre-rounds). Check out the best of the medical blogosphere for this last week!
(one of these days, I’ll write something worthy of submission again, but for now, I’m content to be just another reader)

Car Accident, Part 1

At least this time, I have a good excuse for not having posted recently.
I was on my way to school last week when this white VW Bug came out of nowhere right into my lane. There are trees all along the median, long overdue for some branch trimming–anybody who lives in this neighborhood knows […]

Grand Rounds Update

Sorry for the lapse, you’ll see why in a post here quickly, but the last Grand Rounds was at Chronic Babe (pre-rounds here) and this week’s Grand Rounds is at the geekily funny Pure Pedantry (pre-rounds here).

Goodbye UAG classes, Hello Kaplan

My coursework, as it is taught from professors here on campus, is OVER. YAY! Now we begin a Kaplan review course (partially paid for out of pocket by us on top of our tuition, but that’s another story) to gear up for the USMLE Step 1. Kaplan actually offers a specialized program that’s a […]

Pathopathology

Thanks to the work of pioneers like the late Dr. Robbins in the middle of the 20th century, pathology turned from a banal study of morphological aberrations to a study of the origins of disease. Pathology didn’t begin at the morgue; it began when the patient got sick. Since almost every subject we’ve […]

How to achieve Blog Nirvana

( General )

Om….
I think the whole Venn diagram thing is hilarious. Personally, in my recent hiatus, I was actually thinking about what I could do to make my own site better, more appealing, not just for readers but for myself. The simple obvious answer is “POST, moron!” but I like the long, complicated answers.
To […]

Grand Rounds 3:19

The business side of healtcare is not my thing, but this week’s GR is at Envisioning 2.0 with a healthcare marketing/business focus. (pre-rounds)

Groundhog Day

It’s fitting that today is Groundhog Day because I’ve finally decided to come out of my hole. No shadow-gazing here: I’m out for good. Since I started blogging, I’ve never gone that long without a post. At the same time, I’ve never gone through such a rough time since, either. I backdated […]