This brand new Grand Round is up at Better Health When I host Grand Rounds I like to organize the posts into emotion categories – kind of the way that movies are categorized into “drama, action, comedy, etc.” This achieves two goals: first, readers have the option of starting with their favorite emotion – maybe you need a “pick me up” or maybe you’re looking for something to get your blood pumping? Second, I get a general feeling for how my fellow bloggers are feeling these days. Judging from the volume of posts in each category, it seems that the majority .....read more »

Amazing Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage. Related posts: Bionics: A prosthetic arm that “feels” Is the dutch kidney reality show a hoax? Understanding Depression in Kidney Disease ..read more »

Discovered an astonishing piece of help for med students: Google Body, a detailed 3D model of the human body. You can have a detailed look at the vascular system and heart, bones and the brain. You can add labels and zoom in, rotate the model. Learn the cranial nerves or brain structures with the help of labels on and of. You will need a Web browser that supports WebGL, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta. You can peel back anatomical layers, zoom in, click to identify anatomy, or search for muscles, organs, bones and more. You can also share .....read more »

In The Netherlands vaccination programs are widely accepted, antivaccine movement to my knowledge doesn't exist. In the US that's a different story. Luckily we've the talented Dr. ZDogg, an internal medicine hospitalist; Dr Harry, a pediatrician; Doc Quixote, a general surgeon; and Dr. Diego, a radiologist. They not only write exceptional good and funny blog posts at ZDoggMD, they can actually also sing and perform. Watch this video and enjoy Get your shots on! Our parody of the Travie McCoy and Bruno Mars song Billionaire. Lyrics and more at http://ZDoggMD.com. Written and performed by Dr. Harry and ZDoggMD. Recording and video editing .....read more »

Everything you wanted to know about the placebos. Thanks Life in the Fast LaneRelated posts: The Placebo Effect Explained in a video The placebo effect, dopamine and reward The Magic of the Placebo ..read more »

Your medical chart: it's hard to access, impossible to read -- and full of information that could make you healthier if you just knew how to use it. At TEDMED, Thomas Goetz looks at medical data, making a bold call to redesign it and get more insight from it. It starts off with an interesting experiment in dentistry. Fear doesn't work in communicating messages about health. Related posts: Visualizing the medical data explosion Instructive Video about PubMed Redesign PubMed Redesign, A Physician’s Opinion ..read more »

In the latest issue of the JAMA the results of a survey is published. The authors did a search on physicians using twitter. They extracted the public profile pages of the physicians using twitter with 500 or more followers between May 1 and May 31, 2010. They analyzed the tweets of these professionals. Of the 5156 tweets analyzed, 49% (2543) were health or medical related, 21% (1082) were personal communications, 14% (703) were retweets, and 58% (2965) contained links. Seventy-three tweets (1%) recommended a medical product or proprietary service, 634 (12%) were self-promotional, and 31 (1%) were related to medical education. But .....read more »

This is the title of an article recently published and written by a psychiatrist and a cardiac surgeon. It's about an important question not only for physicians but also for other professionals. I found their answer recognizable for most of their concepts. In short, it's about five concepts that can be helpful in the work of busy professionals. Mindfulness, to my opinion one of the least recognizable concepts to be advised to busy professionals. Professionals are usually busy trying to achieve goals in the near future. They take little time to think and enjoy the present. The article goes into detail .....read more »

Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and determine what's useful? At TEDxGöteborg, scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools -- like virtual autopsies -- for analyzing this myriad data, and a glimpse at some sci-fi-sounding medical technologies in development. This talk contains some graphic medical imagery. Why you should tell your kids to play video games. How graphic cards can be helpful with virtual autopsies in forensic medicine.Related posts: Visualizing Data It’s time to redesign medical data Medical Data Mining ..read more »

What is strategical thinking? A key leadership requirement. Strategic thinking is an individual thinking activity that benefits organizations. Its purpose is to discover competitive strategies to position the organization significantly differently from the present. Experiences contributing to the development of strategic thinking in order of importance according to a survey in individuals who attended ten educational events sponsored by the American College of healthcare Executives (ACHE) in various U.S. cities. Participating in organizational strategic planning was the most important experience contributing to the development of strategic thinking. Starting a major organizational project. This experience involves a complex project that lasts one year .....read more »