Due to popular request (Hi Mayo Clinic!), I’ve added the Transtubular Potassium Gradient , Ideal Body Weight , and Fractional Excretion of Urea calculations. ApacheII is taking some time to proof.
(And darn it, I may just have to get an iPhone now that Apple has announced an SDK for February.)
Congrats, Kevin, you looked great! (But CBS, I have to agree with GruntDoc here , that was a lame excuse for an example of “defensive medicine.” Hindsight’s 20/20.)
Rarely do we get a documented look at acute illness from a patient’s perspective–most patient blogs discuss chronic disease. As there’s been a lot of talk about MRSA lately, I thought it’s a perfect time to showcase fellow Stanford student (fine, now PhD) Nick Yee’s documentation of his MRSA abscess and bactrim drug reaction , the poor guy! This all happened to him while he was getting ready to do his dissertation defense. Luckily he’s back to full health now. He does a great job of talking about his symptoms, what happened, and what he learned. Plus he’s got some pretty amazing/classic pictures of a drug rash .
I had been planning to write on how amazing it is to deliver babies and such, but I’ve been sick with some nasty virus or something and feel just awful. Fevers, chills, sweats, enteritis, the works. It’s just fantastic, really. In lieu of anything medical related: JK Rowling says Dumbledore’s a bit light in the loafers.
October 20th, 2007Health Care Is A Right : click for the one-minute video.
“I strongly support universal, single payer, government-provided or government-funded health care. It doesn’t mean that the government runs it. It can have competition among the different providers. But I just think that we’ve long since reached the stage that it’s immoral to put people in a situation where they cannot get the medical care
they need because their incomes aren’t high enough. I think that it ought to be a matter of right. And our current system just doesn’t work. It’s way too expensive. The quality of health care is excellent for those who have enough money to buy the very best, but lower-income and low-middle-income Americans are not getting good health care, and so many now cannot afford the private health insurance that they’re going without insurance – millions and millions of people. And I think that to eliminate the incredibly ridiculous costs of all of this unnecessary paper work, and different standards from different insurance companies, it is time to have universal health insurance.”
It’s National Coming Out Day today. My previous post about how to be a caring, non-judgmental physician and seeing LGBT patients.
Where I was born and where my father trained, the hospital has markedly improved after struggling 10 years ago :
The hospital has improved so much that today, the University HealthSystem Consortium, an organization of 97 academic medical centers, is naming the University of Kansas Hospital among its top five performers in 2007 for quality and accountability.
Margaret Cho has this great bit about her experience with hematuria, and finally it is somewhat relevant enough to post! (I have no idea who she saw that employs a “vagina washer,” but maybe that’s how it works in the private OB-Gyn world. Who knows.)
This is what happens. Maria gives the lowdown. It’s really not that scary.
