Crraaaaap .

The Neurodiversity Weblog analyzes the scary Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, who are apparently, totally, insane.

Ezra writes about Bush slashing cancer screening programs for women .

Maria’s piece, The Drug Pushers explains the ease by which one can have the drug companies pay for everything you could need as a doctor. (Stanford is considering banning all drug rep materials; I hope it passes.)

A great list of online videos to improve your physical exam skills , from the Clinical Cases blog.

In some patients, hormones to activate clotting were more active after an 8-hour flight. Still no idea why.

A mother writes a letter to her young children to be read by them 12 years later, on the duties of a human being.

What’s grosser than gross? An STD in a stoma . (via the evil resident )

Blingo is basically Google searching with prizes. If you search using Blingo instead of Google (they’re the same search results), you can win free stuff–I just won a $10 iTunes gift card yesterday. Join now , with me as your friend, and we both win prizes when you win.

(Only downside: It won’t do the auto-Google searches, like linking to a map if you type in an address. They pay for it by displaying Google text ads on the side, just like Google does. Brilliant idea.)

An Aerial Portrait of my Windy City. Beautiful photography.