Grand Rounds needs you. Val Jones and I have recognized that GR works better when we invest in a higher profile  -- e-mail blasts about ...

According to this reputable source , (and backed up a little by this source ) the concept of the modern grocery store was once laughable. Cu...

Reading the ER Stories blog is often a guilty pleasure for me. Today's post , however, struck a nerve:  Very often I ask patients abou...

I made my first PowerPoint presentation in 1997, and actually used Microsoft's application to prepare 35mm Kodachrome slides for a carou...

I've spent some time recently working with our new ED information system vendors on verbiage. That's what the industry calls the r...

Grand Rounds took a break this week, for the first time in its history. We probably should have done it on earlier occasions, but in the pas...

This year, I learned about the death of two physicians that were pretty important to me. The first was my pathology teacher, Dr. Guido Maj...

Before the App Store, way back in the spring of 2008, I jailbroke my refurbed first generation iPhone. I claimed it was for the cool native ...

A reader of my EMPractice LLSA review on paracentesis ( still available, buy yours today! ) wrote my editor with a question. Not, thankfully...

Slate's Juliet Lapidos  recently reviewe d a new book by Allan Metcalf on the story of OK ("America's Greatest Word").  K...

Grand Rounds, the weekly rotating carnival of healthcare blogs, is in its seventh year. This week we're trying something different. ...

Calendar trivia has always interested me. And we've lived though some special dates, from the turn of the millennium to 9-02-10 day last...

I love this town. In the event of another disaster in NYC, I want to be able to help. So, years ago, I signed up for the NYC Medical Reserve...

It's happened again. Almost every day, I get a brochure or three about courses, credentialing, or some educational opportunities for d...

Bill Simmons sometimes pokes fun at the journalism cliche of  collocated words that rarely appear apart from each other -- you don't of...

Bora's back hosting Grand Rounds this coming Tuesday at his site, Blog Around the Clock -- but I'm going to help him collect submis...

Somebody at Apple likes Goldfrapp. They've used her latest album for this tutorial  (scroll down) and the sublime Seventh Tree was pic...