In Complications , Dr. Atul Gawande visits the Shouldice Hospital in Toronto. They do hernia repairs there. In fact, that's pretty much...

Gawande takes it one step further -- if expertise means mind-numbing routine, can human judgment be replaced by computers? He cites a big EK...

There are so many songs exulting love and relationships -- are there any songs about a satisfying job? Going to work excited, coming home fu...

I thought I'd like my psychiatry rotation, because I tend to enjoy interviewing patients. It turns out I like the rotation for completel...

A friend just emailed me a question -- is piercing the cartilage of the upper ear more dangerous than piercing the lobe? He asks, because it...

Atul Gawande's book Complications has lots that's worth commenting on. I'll tackle the shortest chapter first, the one in whic...

This is a regular feature on blogborygmi, having appeared once before. This installment: A group of disgruntled Las Vegas Cirque du Sole...

One assigment in my family medicine rotation was to pick my 'favorite intervention' -- something like PSA or acyclovir, and document...

A cardiologist at my school recently emailed us his deconstruction of Dr. Atkin's autopsy report. I'd credit him here, but I'm a...

I'm thinking that the last three interesting nonfiction books I've read -- Progress Paradox by Gregg Easterbrook, Short History of N...

My medical school's second-year Class Show was last night. I think it was pretty good, but I missed a lot of the references to other stu...

CNN reports on the NEJM "medical mystery" X-ray contest I participated in: The 62-year-old man came to the emergency room of C...

Writing about the woman in Kerry's almost-scandal, the New York Observer's Alexandra Wolfe observes : "The point is that so...

James Taranto of WSJ's Best of the Web Today is just learning about the Spongmonkeys: "Are Cambodian eating habits the inspira...

I finally found a bunch of med student blogs. There's a list of medical blogs, broken down by author's education and slant, on medmu...

The NYTimes : reports on the complex underworld of Amazon book reviews: "'That anybody is allowed to come in and anonymously tr...

Every now and then Cecil Adams and the The Straight Dope rise above their self-adulation and write something insightful. "What d...