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Grand Rounds XXVIII

April 5th, 2005

Filed under: Medicine

Welcome to the Twenty-Eighth Edition of Med Blogs Grand Rounds. Presented below are the cream of the crop from the past week’s medical blogging, covering everything from politics to television.

	Politics (in various arenas) Thoughts On a Speech by Former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders (from Blogborygmi) Credentials (from Dr. Tony) IRB Politics (from the Bioethics Dude) USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills Exam (from The Future of Medicine)
	Medicine How Long Will You Live? (from Political Calculations) Avian Influenza and the ‘War on Birds’ (from Living the Scientific Life) Peanuts and Garlic (from Parallel Universes) Contented Melancholy (from The Examining Room of Dr. Charles)
	Doctors’ Lives A Serious Conversation (from DB’s Medical Rants) The Dream (from Vertical Mattress) Extra Room (from I’m So Sleepy) The List (from Hospice Blog) Where Ignorance is Bliss… (from The Cheerful Oncologist)
	Technology The Night Nothing Happened (from GruntDoc) Do Smart Infusion Pumps Improve Medication Safety? (from Medical Connectivity Consulting)
	Psychiatry Screening for Depression (from The Anonymous Clerk) God and the Devil (from Intueri)
	Big Business An Early Warning to the Orthopedic Industry (from the Health Business Blog) Blame the Drug Companies (from Dr. Andy)
	Legal Aspects of Medicine A Misdiagnosed Gall Bladder Leads to a Malpractice Trial (from Kevin M.D.)
	Quack Ideas The Galileo Gambit (from Respectful Insolence) Boutique Fetal Imaging (from Red State Moron)
	Television A Review of Grey’s Anatomy (from A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure) A Review of House (from Polite Dissent)

If you’ve never visited before, Polite Dissent is a blog that takes a (mostly reverential) look at both medicine and comic books, especially the areas where they overlap (or collide, depending on your point of view). I also discuss television, books, and whatever else happens to pique my interest. Take a look around now that you’re here; I think you’ll like what you see.

Favorite posts include The Legion of Super-Heroes After School Special, How A Comic Book Helped Me in Physics and Is Dr. Doom Really A Doctor?

Thanks for stopping by!

Next week Grunt Doc hosts Grand Rounds, and the entire Grand Rounds Archives can be found here.

Quiz Time:
How many of the famous, infamous and obscure comic book characters depicted in this post can you name? Highlight the box below for answers:

ANSWERS

Lex Luthor (villain of Superman)

Dr. Mid-Nite (technically Dr. Mid-Nite II, from JSA)

Cardiac (a forgettable villain from The Amazing Spider-Man)

Reed Richards, a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic (from The Fantastic Four)

Dr. Leonard Samson (green-haired psychiatrist from The Incredible Hulk)

Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. The Kingpin (enemy of Spider-Man and Daredevil)

Matt Murdock, a.k.a. Daredevil (blind attorney and super-hero)

Howard the Duck (’Nuff Said)

Clark Kent, a.k.a. Superman (from his stint as a newsman for WGBS)

12 Responses to “ Grand Rounds XXVIII ”

T.J.
April 5th, 2005 at 7:15 am

Awesome job, Scott. I love the layout this week!
DB’s Medical Rants » Grand Rounds 28
April 5th, 2005 at 8:45 am

[...] Grand Rounds 28 Filed under: General, Medical Rants — rcentor @ 7:44 am Grand Rounds 28 Leave a Reply Name (requir [...]
Dr Emer
April 5th, 2005 at 11:47 am

Wow! Simple and straight to the point with a touch of comic characters. Congratulations! =)

So you’re a comic fan, too. I recognize the Kingpin, Reed Richards, Doc Samson, lawyer Matt Murdock, Clark Kent, and (that ain’t Donald, right?) Howard the duck. I didn’t see my faves Wolvie and Doctor Banner. The rest, I have to peep for the answers.
Bard Parker
April 5th, 2005 at 2:07 pm

Well done…
GruntDoc
April 5th, 2005 at 3:28 pm

MedBlogs Grand Rounds XXVIII

Polite DissentWelcome to the Twenty-Eighth Edition of Med Blogs Grand Rounds. Presented below are the cream of the crop from the past week’s medical blogging, covering everything from politics to television.Cool! Cartoon representations! The variety …
bioethics dude
April 5th, 2005 at 3:58 pm

Awesome! My favorite comic book was priest, and i didn’t too to hot on the quiz: totally didn’t know who the psych. was vis-a-vis the Hulk.
David Williams
April 5th, 2005 at 8:44 pm

Love it!
Saint Nate
April 5th, 2005 at 10:12 pm

And here I thought I was the only one who remembered Cardiac, the physician/supervillian who went around in an ambulance giving Spiderman minor headaches.

Great round-up.
Noli Irritare Leones » Blog Archive » What I’m reading
April 6th, 2005 at 10:29 am

[...] cs and Law Blog on Apes and Forgiveness. Dr. Tony has a touching post on After they die. This week’s Med Blogs Grand Rounds. This week’s The Tangled Bank, a science carnival. [...]
JErm
April 6th, 2005 at 10:56 pm

Nice work! Not exactly my area but it was a good read! :)
medmusings
April 14th, 2005 at 1:51 pm

del.icio.us links from the last month

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cheezbeck: For several months now, I have been read
December 24th, 2006 at 4:14 am

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