John Linnell and John Flansburgh have been rattling around the back of my brain recently. First, they made a cameo over on Homestar last we...

Blogborygmi was originally intended to give my freelance writing career a lift. That hasn't really happened -- blogging has become an en...

Zachary Block has written a wonderful profile of a controversial figure who signs his legal papers as "Rev. Dr. Michael Newdow." ...

What's the best defense against hospitalism ? ...maybe it's hospitalists ! I must admit, "a hospitalist" is climbi...

Susan Kruglinski writes a pleasant essay in today's NYTimes about how conceptualizing current math and physics research is damn near im...

An old friend was in town this weekend. She's in residency now and mentioned the buzz around this JAMA story about how evidence-based m...

McBride's finished sulking in the tent of OB/GYN, and the epic struggle for universal health care takes a surprising turn. Beware Gr...

Hepatitis A can cause fulminant liver failure up to 1% of infected patients. I once saw a young patient who was at the brink (AST was 12,000...

Daily Show host Jon Stewart's honorary doctorate speech to the grads of William & Mary is really very good (Hat tip: Grahamazon ). ...

A story making the (grand) rounds last week involved the first case of malpractice, in London, 1424 AD. I can't find a record of this st...

It was fifty years ago today that the Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. Board of Education. Earl Warren wrote that, when in comes to education...

The medicalization of my vocabulary proceeds apace; I palpated my first thrill last week. This sounds more exciting than the reality: a 3/6 ...

Medpundit thinks the new Blogger interface isn't as friendly as the original. In a presumably unrelated but sequential post, she go...

I've been wondering what, if anything, to say about Abu Ghraib. Commenting on the ups and downs of the war seems best left to the pros. ...

The other day on rounds, I saw a patient with an oval pupil. She looked ... feline. I took it as an incidental finding (my mind was really o...

I've been going back and forth with fellow med student bloggers about how to improve public awareness of health issues. Applying regula...

Unlike the recent utensil tragicomedy , this one will probably have narrower appeal. Still, it was good for a chuckle when overheard at morn...