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Doctor Blogs Raise Concerns About Patient Privacy (NPR)

“If you are unhappy with the people that you’re supposed to be serving and taking care of, you probably need therapy,” she says. “You don’t need to be venting your frustrations in a public manner like t read more »
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Scientist Turns Microscope on Herself (Wired):

One of the most fascinating talks at the TED conference so far was given by Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist, who gave a riveting account of a stroke she experienced in 1996.

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Ariana Page Russell is an artist and has dermatographia which is a skin condition described by Mayo Clinic.com:
Dermatographia is a condition in which lightly scratching your skin causes raised, red lines where you’ve scratched. It’s not serious, but it can be uncomfortable. In der read more »
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There are plenty of social networking sites created by and for medical professionals, but here is a real social network that is focused mainly on the hobbies and recreation of physicians and medical students.

DoctorsHangout.com is an exclusive next generation social networking service fo read more »
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Karina S. Descartin at The Story of Healing blog has already written some essays about the role of media in medicine and she has always been interested in the opportunities web 2.0 can offer to medical professionals. Recently, she asked me to answer some of her questions. As these questions allowed read more »
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It’s a great pleasure for me to host Grand Rounds again after almost a year. Nick Genes’s child shines more than ever so I hope I can show you plenty of useful and valuable submissions from the medical blogosphere. So this time, the topic is the future of medicine which means I’ll read more »
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Art of Technology Conference, Tacoma, March 7, 2008 (John Miller): Some interesting health-related sites in Second Life.


IBM Builds Virtual Healthcare Island (Medgadget):

To promote IBM’s vision of the future of healthcare information management, the company setup read more »
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Gene Map Becomes a Luxury Item (The New York Times): But it shouldn’t be…

On a cold day in January, Dan Stoicescu, a millionaire living in Switzerland, became the second person in the world to buy the full sequence of his own genetic code.

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I thought I should create an account at 23andMe and see what happens with my demo genes. Of course, you cannot analyze your own genes (or you can, if you ordered their service), but the genetic background of the Mendel-family. I started with the Gene Journal where you can check whether you have ele read more »
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