A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure

Time to Go Galt? The below is video of a recent Grand Rounds presented by a Chief Resident at the University of Alabama . Going Galt: When ...

Gone to the Dogs.... A frequently heard remark about a poor physician is: "I wouldn't let him operate on my dog!" Well in the ...

Are we the Greedy Bastards Dr. Gawande Makes us out to be???? The criticisms of Dr. Gwande's New Yorker article have ranged from the pa...

My Late Take on Gawande... I know I'm late with this.... McAllen, Texas is a city with a population of 101,604 people in the city prope...

Happy Birthday America..... IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Cours...

Happy Blogday.... I guess since a post is present for each calendar year I can claim that this is the 6th blogday.

Kids these Days.... If this post sounds like the old "uphill both ways to the hospital barefoot" rant, well it is. At the end of t...

ATLS again.... With warm weather comes misbehavior and an uptick in the trauma service business. I have also been caring for a young lady w...

The Government Big Enough to Give You Healthcare ..... Callie Moore Is a 13 year-old young lady who lives in the Athens area and has a multi...

Grand Rounds Vol. V No. 30.... See this week's best of the medical blogosphere, hosted by Pharmamotion .

Are Medical Staffs Independent or Even Relevant Anymore... I have been dragooned into a leadership position at Big Hospital. Hooray. Another...

Red 13 Black 3 You know college football is big in Georgia when for your spring game: 1)About 40,000 show up, and 2)It's covered live on...

Physician Thunderdome .. In this post Kevin throws down the gauntlet: Make no mistake, specialist organizations are ready to throw primary...

Grand Rounds Vol. V No. 29 Grand Rounds hosted this week by Leslie .

Tales from the Trauma Service XIX..... Gentleman working on a landscpe project. The worker above him falls and drops one of these on him: An...

I Haven't Watched in Years... But I will watch the last episode of "ER" tonight.

Grand Rounds Vol V, No. 28 Grand Rounds hosted by Paul Levy at Running a Hospital .

The Gang's all Here... Maybe it has to do with spring but thanks to GruntDoc I find that both Panda Bear and my old group-blogging bud...

The Surgical Blog Carnival.. Surgexperiences 2:20 hosted this week at Vagus Surgicalis .

On the Wagon... First off, thanks for all of those who have welcomed me back after my hiatus. Why so long away? After boards some other thin...

Tales from the Trauma Service XVIII Patient comes in after a motor vehicle collision, intubated in the field for combativeness. Undergoes t...

Did the Medical School in Athens just Hit a Snag ??? Word out today that Medical College of Georgia president Dan Rahn has accepted the pos...

Epic Admissions Committee Fail.... From today's New York Times : A Quandary in Sweden: Criminals in Med School A year ago, Sweden’s most...

R-E-S-P-E-C-T..(Part Two) A commenter on this post exposes what could be the dark underbelly of the whole issue of inter-specialist respec...

Grand Rounds Vol. V No. 27 This week's Grand Rounds hosted at Codeblog .

R-E-S-P-E-C-T.... (Part One) Dustup over at Dr. Centor's about the age-old question: Do surgeons respect primary care? In this he links...

No "I" in Team... Kevin points to a post by Duncan Cross in which he opines that the trial lawyers take care of our patients i...

Match Stats 2009... After neglecting my usual review of senior medical students voting with their feet last year, here we go again. Accordin...