The scene: a faded, half-filled comedy club, still clinging to its Seinfeld-era glory. A spotlight shines on a brick wall, a black painted w...

I have observed a striking correlation between blogging, interest in emergency medicine, and geocaching. First in myself, then Doc Shazam , ...

There is no better way to start your workweek than listening to "Bottle Rocket" by The Go! Team . It starts abruptly with a bright...

Lately I've had the opportunity to spend some time in in northern New Jersey. Oddly enough, it's here where I've encountered the...

There's a masterful piece in today's New York Times about the Mini-Mental Status exam. Adapted from Bernard Cooper's book , it...

Even Lileks gets the blues: Well, I went off on a rant tonight; didn’t mean to, but it’s been building. I blame myself; I am feeling partic...

I'll always have a warm spot in my heart reserved for the Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping , the enduring tune that makes me smile eve...

Last year I learned that, during the holidays, leaving New York's never easy . This year, it's downright difficult. The significance...

It looked like it was going to be a bad call on pediatrics. Signout was full of new, borderline admissions -- asthma exacerbations that were...

MedGadget has announced the 2005 Medical Weblog Awards , to considerable interest. There's even been some speculation as to how the awa...

There's a great scene in Memento where our afflicted protagonist, with only a short-term memory at his disposal, is trying to jot down a...

This week's Grand Rounds is being hosted by Geena at Code Blog: Tales of a Nurse . This week's collection of the best of the medica...

It was a Sunday morning shift, one of my first as an intern. I'd been out a little too late the night before, and hadn't had time to...

I first learned about the Jeans-for-Genes charity when in London a few years ago. After the initial rush of long-supressed childhood taunts ...

There is no doubt in my mind that the sharp siren sound the opens and loops through Moby's "Extreme Ways" is intended to evok...

It was the best of calls, it was the worst of calls. It was a time of wisdom, it was a time of foolishness. It was a season of belief, it wa...

From the November 2005 issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine , by Goyal, Hollander and Gaieski at Penn: "The Figure displays an underre...