Grand Rounds is the weekly summary of the best healthcare writing online, featuring stories, opinion and analysis from doctors, nurses, patients, researchers and administrators, and journalists.
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Previous hosts are listed below:
| Week 1 | 09/28/04 hosted @ | Blogborygmi | |
| Week 2 | 10/05/04 hosted @ | Galen's Log | |
| Week 3 | 10/26/04 hosted @ | Kevin, M.D. | |
| Week 4 | 10/12/04 hosted @ | EchoJournal | |
| Week 5 | 10/19/04 hosted @ | Code Blog: Tales of a Nurse | |
| Week 6 | 11/02/04 hosted @ | MedPundit | (U.S. Election Day edition) |
| Week 7 | 11/09/04 hosted @ | GruntDoc | |
| Week 8 | 11/16/04 hosted @ | MedRants | |
| Week 9 | 11/23/04 hosted @ | Shrinkette | |
| Week 10 | 11/30/04 hosted @ | DoctorMental | |
| Week 11 | 12/07/04 hosted @ | Doctor Charles | (First Top-Ten list) |
| Week 12 | 12/14/04 hosted @ | Parallel Universes | (First International host) |
| Week 13 | 12/21/04 hosted @ | Code Blue Blog | |
| Week 14 | 12/28/04 hosted @ | Code Blog: Tales of a Nurse | ("Twenty Days of Grand Rounds" singalong) |
| Week 15 | 01/04/05 hosted @ | Rangel, M.D. | (Hospital Departments theme) |
| Week 16 | 01/11/05 hosted @ | Medical Madhouse | (Scut Hall theme) |
| Week 17 | 01/18/05 hosted @ | Waking Up Costs | (Medical Errors theme) |
| Week 18 | 01/25/05 hosted @ | A Chance to Cut... | |
| Week 19 | 02/01/05 hosted @ | Daily Capsules | |
| Week 20 | 02/08/05 hosted @ | MedMusings | |
| Week 21 | 02/15/05 hosted @ | Sumer's Radiology Site | |
| Week 22 | 02/22/05 hosted @ | Catallarchy | |
| Week 23 | 03/01/05 hosted @ | Intueri | (a la carte theme) |
| Week 24 | 03/08/05 hosted @ | Hospice Blog | (Hospice Care theme) |
| Week 25 | 03/15/05 hosted @ | Respectful Insolence | (TV Listings theme) |
| Week 26 | 03/22/05 hosted @ | The Well-Timed Period | |
| Week 27 | 03/29/05 hosted @ | Grahamazon | (Tabloids! theme) |
| Week 28 | 04/05/05 hosted @ | Polite Dissent | (comic book theme) |
| Week 29 | 04/12/05 hosted @ | GruntDoc | |
| Week 30 | 04/19/05 hosted @ | GrrlScientist | |
| Week 31 | 04/26/05 hosted @ | Dr. Tony | |
| Week 32 | 05/03/05 hosted @ | Mudfud | (A Day in the Life...) |
| Week 33 | 05/10/05 hosted @ | Azygos | |
| Week 34 | 05/17/05 hosted @ | Galen's Log | |
| Week 35 | 05/24/05 hosted @ | Iatremia: The Chaplin.News | (Quotables theme) |
| Week 36 | 05/31/05 hosted @ | Dr. Sanity | (Leonardo: Medicine & Art) |
| Week 37 | 06/07/05 hosted @ | Medgadget | (Pomp & Circumstance theme) |
| Week 38 | 06/14/05 hosted @ | Red State Moron | |
| Week 39 | 06/21/05 hosted @ | A Chance to Cut... | |
| Week 40 | 06/28/05 hosted @ | Health Business Blog | |
| Week 41 | 07/05/05 hosted @ | Medical Connectivity | |
| Week 42 | 07/12/05 hosted @ | Shrinkette | |
| Week 43 | 07/19/05 hosted @ | Aggravated DocSurg | |
| Week 44 | 07/26/05 hosted @ | Pharyngula | (Analysis of What Medbloggers Do) |
| Week 45 | 08/02/05 hosted @ | Alois, M.D. | |
| Week 46 | 08/09/05 hosted @ | Dr. Emer | |
| Week 47 | 08/16/05 hosted @ | Circadiana | |
| Week 48 | 08/23/05 hosted @ | Straight From the Doc | |
| Week 49 | 08/30/05 hosted @ | Healthy Concerns | |
| Week 50 | 09/6/05 hosted @ | Corpus Callosum | |
| Week 51 | 09/13/05 hosted @ | Sneezing Po | (A Virtual Gallery) |
| Week 52 | 09/20/05 hosted @ | SoundPractice.net | |
| Volume 2, No. 1 | 09/27/05 hosted @ | Docnotes | |
| Vol. 2, No. 2 | 10/04/05 hosted @ | The Haversian Canal | |
| Vol. 2, No. 3 | 10/11/05 hosted @ | Doulicia | (Medicine & Law) |
| Vol. 2, No. 4 | 10/18/05 hosted @ | Diabetes Mine | (Hospital Departments theme) |
| Vol. 2, No. 5 | 10/25/05 hosted @ | Hospital Impact | (Letter from the House Staff) |
| Vol. 2, No. 6 | 11/1/05 hosted @ | KidneyNotes | |
| Vol. 2, No. 7 | 11/08/05 hosted @ | MSSPNexus | ("Dammit, Jim" theme) |
| Vol. 2, No. 8 | 11/15/05 hosted @ | Mr. Hassle's Long Underpants | |
| Vol. 2, No. 9 | 11/22/05 hosted @ | Code Blog: Tales of a Nurse | |
| Vol. 2, No. 10 | 11/29/05 hosted @ | Over My Med Body | (Thanksgiving theme) |
| Vol. 2, No. 11 | 12/06/05 hosted @ | The Examining Room of Dr. Charles | |
| Vol. 2, No. 12 | 12/13/05 hosted @ | In the Pipeline | |
| Vol. 2, No. 13 | 12/20/05 hosted @ | MedPundit | |
| Vol. 2, No. 14 | 12/27/05 hosted @ | The Health Care Blog | (best of 2005) |
| Vol. 2, No. 15 | 01/03/06 hosted @ | Random Acts of Reality | |
| Vol. 2, No. 16 | 01/10/06 hosted @ | Clinical Cases and Images - Blog | |
| Vol. 2, No. 17 | 01/17/06 hosted @ | GruntDoc | |
| Vol. 2, No. 18 | 01/24/06 hosted @ | Kevin, M.D. | |
| Vol. 2, No. 19 | 01/31/06 hosted @ | Barbados Butterfly | |
| Vol. 2, No. 20 | 02/07/06 hosted @ | Science & Politics | |
| Vol. 2, No. 21 | 02/14/06 hosted @ | Intueri | (Valentine's Personals) |
| Vol. 2, No. 22 | 02/21/06 hosted @ | Dr. Andy | (Impressions of Spring) |
| Vol. 2, No. 23 | 02/28/06 hosted @ | A Chance to Cut... | (Surgeon & Painter Joseph Wilder) |
| Vol. 2, No. 24 | 03/07/06 hosted @ | Emergiblog | (GR in the ER) |
| Vol. 2, No. 25 | 03/14/06 hosted @ | GeekNurse | |
| Vol. 2, No. 26 | 03/21/06 hosted @ | Healthy Concerns | |
| Vol. 2, No. 27 | 03/28/06 hosted @ | NHS Blog Doctor | (Cricket theme) |
| Vol. 2, No. 28 | 04/04/06 hosted @ | UroStream | (History and Physical) |
| Vol. 2, No. 29 | 04/11/06 hosted @ | Anxiety, Addiction and Depression Treatments | |
| Vol. 2, No. 30 | 04/18/06 hosted @ | Fat Doctor | |
| Vol. 2, No. 31 | 04/25/06 hosted @ | Health Business Blog | |
| Vol. 2, No. 32 | 05/02/06 hosted @ | Polite Dissent | |
| Vol. 2, No. 33 | 05/09/06 hosted @ | Aetiology | |
| Vol. 2, No. 34 | 05/16/06 hosted @ | Doc Around the Clock | |
| Vol. 2, No. 35 | 05/23/06 hosted @ | Parallel Universes | (Medical Journal theme) |
| Vol. 2, No. 36 | 05/30/06 hosted @ | KidneyNotes | |
| Vol. 2, No. 37 | 06/06/06 hosted @ | The Medical Blog Network | |
| Vol. 2, No. 38 | 06/13/06 hosted @ | The Haversian Canal | |
| Vol. 2, No. 39 | 06/20/06 hosted @ | Psychological Perspectives | (Movie theme) |
| Vol. 2, No. 40 | 06/27/06 hosted @ | MedViews | |
| Vol. 2, No. 41 | 07/04/06 hosted @ | Rangel, M.D. | (US health problems theme) |
| Vol. 2, No. 42 | 07/11/06 hosted @ | DonorCycle | |
| Vol. 2, No. 43 | 07/18/06 hosted @ | ChronicBabe | ("It's all about the ladies" theme) |
| Vol. 2, No. 44 | 07/25/06 hosted @ | Medical Humanities | (Garden metaphor) |
| Vol. 2, No. 45 | 08/01/06 hosted @ | Inside Surgery | |
| Vol. 2, No. 46 | 08/08/06 hosted @ | Mexico Medical Student | (Cultural and Musical Convergence) |
| Vol. 2, No. 47 | 08/15/06 hosted @ | Hospital Impact | (Letter to a Newborn) |
| Vol. 2, No. 48 | 08/22/06 hosted @ | The Examining Room of Dr. Charles | (100th edition) |
| Vol. 2, No. 49 | 08/29/06 hosted @ | Protect The Airway | (GR in the ER) |
| Vol. 2, No. 50 | 09/05/06 hosted @ | Clinical Cases and Images - Blog | (Medical Journal theme) |
| Vol. 2, No. 51 | 09/12/06 hosted @ | Diabetes Mine | (Education theme) |
| Vol. 2, No. 52 | 09/19/06 hosted @ | Tundra Medicine Dreams | |
| Vol. 3, No. 1 | 09/26/06 hosted @ | Healthline / Enoch Choi | (Anniversary Party theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 2 | 10/03/06 hosted @ | RDoctor Medical | |
| Vol. 3, No. 3 | 10/10/06 hosted @ | Unbounded Medicine | |
| Vol. 3, No. 4 | 10/17/06 hosted @ | EmergiBlog | (Starbucks theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 5 | 10/24/06 hosted @ | Health Care Law Blog | |
| Vol. 3, No. 6 | 10/31/06 hosted @ | Dr. Hebert's Medical Gumbo | (Halloween edition) |
| Vol. 3, No. 7 | 11/07/06 hosted @ | MSSP Nexus | (M*A*S*H theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 8 | 11/14/06 hosted @ | The Rumors Were True | (The Holy Grail of GR) |
| Vol. 3, No. 9 | 11/21/06 hosted @ | Doctor Anonymous | |
| Vol. 3, No. 10 | 11/28/06 hosted @ | Dr. RW | |
| Vol. 3, No. 11 | 12/05/06 hosted @ | The Antidote | |
| Vol. 3, No. 12 | 12/12/06 hosted @ | Treatment Online | |
| Vol. 3, No. 13 | 12/19/06 hosted @ | Nurse Ratched's Place | (A Charlie Brown Grand Rounds) |
| Vol. 3, No. 14 | 12/26/06 hosted @ | Blogborygmi | |
| Vol. 3, No. 15 | 01/02/07 hosted @ | Musings of a Distractible Mind | (Explosions theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 16 | 01/09/07 hosted @ | Dr. John La Puma | (Diet and Food theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 17 | 01/16/07 hosted @ | Six Until Me | (A 'Real' Poem) |
| Vol. 3, No. 18 | 01/23/07 hosted @ | Signout | (Evidence theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 19 | 01/30/07 hosted @ | Envisioning 2.0 | (Consumer-Driven Healthcare theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 20 | 02/06/07 hosted @ | Tales from the ER and beyond... | (People Behind Medicine theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 21 | 02/13/07 hosted @ | Chronic Babe | (Give Me Some Sugar theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 22 | 02/20/07 hosted @ | Pure Pedantry | (Oscars theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 23 | 02/27/07 hosted @ | Musings of a Dinosaur | (Not Dead Yet theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 24 | 03/06/07 hosted @ | Grunt Doc | |
| Vol. 3, No. 25 | 03/13/07 hosted @ | Science Roll | (Monty Python Medicine) |
| Vol. 3, No. 26 | 03/20/07 hosted @ | Blog, MD | |
| Vol. 3, No. 27 | 03/27/07 hosted @ | MedViews | |
| Vol. 3, No. 28 | 04/03/07 hosted @ | Urostream | |
| Vol. 3, No. 29 | 04/10/07 hosted @ | Dr. Dork | |
| Vol. 3, No. 30 | 04/17/07 hosted @ | Fat Doctor | |
| Vol. 3, No. 31 | 04/24/07 hosted @ | Med Valley High | (A Space Odyssey theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 32 | 05/01/07 hosted @ | ShrinkRap | (Bring Your Own Brain) |
| Vol. 3, No. 33 | 05/08/07 hosted @ | The Blog That Ate Manhattan | |
| Vol. 3, No. 34 | 05/15/07 hosted @ | Medical Humanities Blog | |
| Vol. 3, No. 35 | 05/22/07 hosted @ | ImpactED Nurse | (Proudest theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 36 | 05/29/07 hosted @ | From MedSkool | |
| Vol. 3, No. 37 | 06/05/07 hosted @ | Inside Surgery | |
| Vol. 3, No. 38 | 06/12/07 hosted @ | Dr. Val & the Voice of Reason | |
| Vol. 3, No. 39 | 06/19/07 hosted @ | Code Blog: Tales of a Nurse | (Advice Column theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 40 | 06/26/07 hosted @ | Wandering Visitor | (Inspirational theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 41 | 07/03/07 hosted @ | Over My Med Body | (American Independence theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 42 | 07/10/07 hosted @ | Aetiology | |
| Vol. 3, No. 43 | 07/17/07 hosted @ | Vitum Medicinus | |
| Vol. 3, No. 44 | 07/24/07 hosted @ | Laurie Edwards | |
| Vol. 3, No. 45 | 07/31/07 hosted @ | Health Business Blog | |
| Vol. 3, No. 46 | 08/07/07 hosted @ | Eye On DNA | (Beach House theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 47 | 08/14/07 hosted @ | Med Journal Watch | (Sudden Change theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 48 | 08/21/07 hosted @ | Med Source | (Back-to-School theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 49 | 08/28/07 hosted @ | Rickety Contrivances of Doing Good | |
| Vol. 3, No. 50 | 09/04/07 hosted @ | Parallel Universes | |
| Vol. 3, No. 51 | 09/11/07 hosted @ | The Efficient MD | (Health Innovations theme) |
| Vol. 3, No. 52 | 09/18/07 hosted @ | Six Until Me | (Food Shopping theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 1 | 09/25/07 hosted @ | Kevin, MD | |
| Vol. 4, No. 2 | 10/02/07 hosted @ | Musings of a Distractible Mind | (Dr. Seuss theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 3 | 10/09/07 hosted @ | Nurse Ratched's Place | (Military medicine theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 4 | 10/16/07 hosted @ | NY Emergency Medicine | (Emergency theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 5 | 10/23/07 hosted @ | PalliMed | (Prognostication theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 6 | 10/30/07 hosted @ | Running a Hospital | |
| Vol. 4, No. 7 | 11/06/07 hosted @ | Counting Sheep | |
| Vol. 4, No. 8 | 11/13/07 hosted @ | Doctor Anonymous | |
| Vol. 4, No. 9 | 11/20/07 hosted @ | Mexico Medical Student | (Thanksgiving theme |
| Vol. 4, No. 10 | 11/27/07 hosted @ | Prudence, MD | |
| Vol. 4, No. 11 | 12/04/07 hosted @ | Enoch Choi's MedHelp Site | |
| Vol. 4, No. 12 | 12/11/07 hosted @ | Odysseys of George | (Diving theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 13 | 12/18/07 hosted @ | Trick Cycling for Beginners | (Haiku!) |
| Vol. 4, No. 14 | 12/25/07 hosted @ | Medgadget | (Holidays in the Hospital theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 15 | 01/01/08 hosted @ | Other Things Amanzi | |
| Vol. 4, No. 16 | 01/08/08 hosted @ | PathTalk.org | |
| Vol. 4, No. 17 | 01/15/08 hosted @ | Sharp Brains | (Letter to next US President) |
| Vol. 4, No. 18 | 01/22/08 hosted @ | ButYouDontLookSick.com | |
| Vol. 4, No. 19 | 01/29/08 hosted @ | Emergiblog | (Beatles theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 20 | 02/05/08 hosted @ | DiabetesMine | (The Health 2.0 Explosion) |
| Vol. 4, No. 21 | 02/12/08 hosted @ | Health Blawg | (Valentine's Day theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 22 | 02/19/08 hosted @ | DailyInterview.net | |
| Vol. 4, No. 23 | 02/26/08 hosted @ | ScienceRoll | (The Future of Medicine theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 24 | 03/04/08 hosted @ | Chronic Babe | (New Beginnings theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 25 | 03/11/08 hosted @ | Canadian Medicine | |
| Vol. 4, No. 26 | 03/18/08 hosted @ | Polite Dissent | ("The Roundup" theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 27 | 03/25/08 hosted @ | Monash Medical Student | (Medical Missions theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 28 | 04/01/08 hosted @ | Grand Rounds Fiasco | (April First theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 29 | 04/08/08 hosted @ | Dr. Wes | (Cardiac theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 30 | 04/15/08 hosted @ | Women's Health News | |
| Vol. 4, No. 31 | 04/22/08 hosted @ | Dr. Val Jones & the Voice of Reason | (Emotional theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 32 | 04/29/08 hosted @ | Doc Gurley | (Grand Rounds Smackdown) |
| Vol. 4, No. 33 | 05/06/08 hosted @ | Suture for a Living | |
| Vol. 4, No. 34 | 05/13/08 hosted @ | Health Business Blog | |
| Vol. 4, No. 35 | 05/20/08 hosted @ | Musings of a Dinosaur | (Let There Be Grand Rounds theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 36 | 05/27/08 hosted @ | Parallel Universes | |
| Vol. 4, No. 37 | 06/03/08 hosted @ | Happy Hospitalist | (Degrees of Separation theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 38 | 06/10/08 hosted @ | NHS Blog Doctor | |
| Vol. 4, No. 39 | 06/17/08 hosted @ | Marianas Eye Blog | |
| Vol. 4, No. 40 | 06/24/08 hosted @ | Shrink Rap | (iPhone theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 41 | 07/01/08 hosted @ | Covert Rationing Blog | (Independence theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 42 | 07/08/08 hosted @ | The Blog that Ate Manhattan | (Seinfeld theme) |
| Vol. 4, No. 43 | 07/15/08 hosted @ | Unprotected Text | |
| Vol. 4, No. 44 | 07/23/08 hosted @ | Grunt Doc | |
| Vol. 4, No. 45 | 07/30/08 hosted @ | Edwin Leap | |
| Vol. 4, No. 46 | 08/05/08 hosted @ | Pure Pedantry | |
| Vol. 4, No. 47 | 08/12/08 hosted @ | Medical Humanities Blog | |
| Vol. 4, No. 48 | 08/19/08 hosted @ | Six Until Me | |
| Vol. 4, No. 49 | 08/26/08 hosted @ | Rural Doctoring | |
| Vol. 4, No. 50 | 09/02/08 hosted @ | A Chronic Dose | |
| Vol. 4, No. 51 | 09/09/08 hosted @ | Apple Quack | |
| Vol. 4, No. 52 | 09/16/08 hosted @ | Nurse Ratched's Place | |
| Vol. 5, No. 1 | 09/23/08 hosted @ | Dr. Val | |
| Vol. 5, No. 2 | 09/30/08 hosted @ | Monash Medical Student | |
| Vol. 5, No. 3 | 10/07/08 hosted @ | MDOD | |
| Vol. 5, No. 4 | 10/14/08 hosted @ | Notes of an Anesthesiologist | |
| Vol. 5, No. 5 | 10/21/08 hosted @ | Pallimed | |
| Vol. 5, No. 6 | 10/28/08 hosted @ | Emergiblog | |
| Vol. 5, No. 7 | 11/4/08 hosted @ | Nurse Ratched's Place | |
| Vol. 5, No. 8 | 11/11/08 hosted @ | Musings of a Distractible Mind | |
| Vol. 5, No. 9 | 11/18/08 hosted @ | Dr. Deb | |
| Vol. 5, No. 10 | 11/25/08 hosted @ | Canadian Medicine | |
| Vol. 5, No. 12 | 12/09/08 hosted @ | Sharp Brains | |
| Vol. 5, No. 13 | 12/16/08 hosted @ | A Chronic Dose | |
| Vol. 5, No. 14 | 12/23/08 hosted @ | Highlight Health | |
| Vol. 5, No. 15 | 12/30/08 hosted @ | Monedeuloides |