My piece on the iPad's potential in emergency departments is now up at EP Monthly . Check it out -- especially the ambitious developers ...

There's an adage I often think about : "A physician's job requires the expression of  confidence. The researcher's role is ...

I've seen a couple of examples of this now, so I've decided it's a trend. Naturally I'm going to  excerpt  something from wh...

I had a bunch of difficult shifts midweek last week and a lot of charts to complete, afterward. That, plus some other obligations, and I had...

A longtime reader wrote to ask if I had removed comments because they were a relic in this age of facey-spaces and tweety-pages. That'...

GruntDoc's got a neat little post up how he infers his hospital's census: My way to work goes through one of our myriad basement...

Welcome to Grand Rounds, the weekly collection of the best in medical blogging, featuring works from physicians, nurses, researchers, studen...

The first Grand Rounds of the year will appear here, at blogborygmi.com, on Tuesday morning.  The deadline for submissions will be Monday ...

Today the NY Times printed  a piece pokes fun at, and highlights the dangers of, the new habit of texting-while-walking: This summer, the ...

Much has been written about health care reform, but there's something that's gone unremarked upon, as far as I know: I don't t...

The Efficient MD's eyes are opened by the nasty thoughts Google Suggest offers up when someone starts typing "Doctors are..."...

I took my board exam this week, and I think I liked it. Which is not to say it was easy, or even altogether fair. And though I felt a litt...

Here I am at the medblog track at Blog World Expo '09 . I'm finally meeting some of the authors I've been reading for years. Th...

If you were curious about some of the Web 2.0 sites or services I mentioned today in my talk, links are available below: My NCBI Google Al...

Friends visiting New York City this summer keep asking if it's safe. As in, will they be catching and suffering from novel H1N1 (swine) ...

Here's a followup to that recent post about the frustrations involved with patient-reported allergies. Somehow I missed this before now...

When you have a singular achievement of historical magnitude, well, I imagine it's hard to go back to regular life. And it's hard to...