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2006: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2005: May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

August 2008

• I Am Happy To Be Here
• Civil Jury Trials: Restoring Our Faith in Humanity
• Concierge Medicine 2.0
• McCain Calls Majority of Americans Stupid
• Most Children Oppose More Healthcare for Children
• How Much Is Wasted In U.S. Healthcare?
• I Used To Be A Doctor For Pretend
• News Says Russia Invaded Georgia But I Don't See Anything From My Trailer...
• Where Does All The Money Go?
• Olympic Opening Ceremony Faked
• Someone Hacked Your Pacemaker
• An iPhone Post
• Carribbean Medical School Pays For Clinical Rotations
• Blogrolled By The LA Times
• Here In America: The Anesthesiologist Song
• Medgadget Interviews Dr. Rohack
• No More Patient Dumping Hopefully
• Exploding MRI
• Hospitals Are Killing Their ER Patients
• Grand Rounds

July 2008

• Scalpel, Beer
• Why Local News Sucks
• Grand Rounds
• Anniversary of Moon Landing
• Another Year Without The SGR Mandated Reimbursement Cuts
• Dr. Debakey Dies
• Wisenthal Center Tries To Flush Aribert Heim Out
• This Fourth

June 2008

• Why I Support Barack Obama For President
• TSA Now To Require ID To Travel
• Our Prayers Are With You Dr. Davis
• The AMA On Industry Funding of Education
• Vegans Face Prosecution
• Presidential Candidates' Health Care Plans
• Kennedy Has 'Successful' Tumor Debulking
• Panda Bear, MD Is Leaving The Blogosphere
• Physicians Saying I'm Sorry
• Urban Exploring Hospitals

May 2008

• Two Vioxx Verdicts Get Altered On Appeal
• Normalizing Obesity
• Google Health
• DB Elected To The ACP Board of Regents
• Ted Kennedy Has A High Grade Glioma
• All You Need To Know Of Human Anatomy
• Ted Kennedy Suffers A Seizure
• PBS Takes A Look At DTC
• Sorry Milton, Two Wrongs Make A Right
• GodTube Makes My Head Explode
• University of Virginia Hosts The Real Debate
• The Perfect Medical School: Basic Science
• Should Raw Medicare Provider Data Stay Private?
• Those Specialists Aren't Paid Enough

April 2008

• Hygiene For The Obese
• The Privacy Thing Stops At The Border
• A Bad Cross Cover Call
• Patient Privacy Only Half Applies To Physicians
• Surgeon Removes Live Grenade
• Music For Being Sick
• Four Myths of The Primary Care Crisis
• Study Medicine Abroad
• The Perfect Medical School: Admissions
• The Perfect Medical School
• Political Considerations In Medical Student Admissions
• 'Ghost' of Vioxx
• In The Spirit of Orac
• The NHS Doesn't Know How To Allocate Organs
• Immigrant Transplants
• Protection Against Radiation Exposure
• Obstetrics Lecture
• An Example of Human To Human H5N1 Transmission
• The Requisite Ob/Gyn Post On Evolutionary Biology
• The Credit Crisis Hits My Educational Lender
• Warning: This Post Might Get A Lil' Vulgar
• New Medical Schools Like Ragweed
• Pre-Emption For Big Pharma?
• Can Market Forces Solve Any Of Our Health Care Woes?
• A Gift From A Patient
• Caffeine For Me

March 2008

• Why Physicians Should Be Able To Seek Confidential Alcohol & Drug Treatment
• How Doctors Think Webinar
• Taking Claims Of Malpractice To The Internet
• British Doctors Say Don't Treat The Old And Unhealthy
• A Celebrity Takes Up The Medical Error Cause
• International Experiences In The Basic Science Years
• Hackers Attack Epilepsy Site
• What Is It That Makes You Think This Is The Drive Thru Lane?
• A Science Fiction Writer Says Something Stupid
• When To Leave The Hospital
• First Full Face Transplant
• A Remarkable Case of Explosive Decompression
• University of Texas Loses Its Chancellor
• Happy Easter
• Homeopathy Is Hilarious...
• Protection For Medical Device Makers
• Stewart University Deserves Mockery
• Residency Match
• Employers Foot More Of The Health Care Bill Around The World
• So Much of the World Has A Market For Organs
• Doctor Blogs Raise Concerns?
• John Ritter Malpractice Suit Goes To The Physicians
• Ancient Greek Neurosurgery
• Diagnosing On The Fly
• We've Already Forgotten About The Next Great Fear
• Describing A Stroke
• The Organ Shortage
• Roll The Dice For Healthcare
• The Obesity War
• Google Health

February 2008

• Transplant Surgeon Charged In Hastening A Patient's Death
• Talk About Backtracking
• Awkward Moments With Patients
• Walk Off The Job And You're Prosecuted
• Spine Patients Pay A Lot And Get A Little
• NY Times Magazine Article: Miracle Workers?
• General Surgery Be Done
• Americans Don't Know The First Amendment
• Scrubs and Fleece
• I Need It, So I Should Get It
• The California Blues
• Should Doctors Participate In DTC?
• Ice Skates And Necks
• Restaurants Are Worse Than Crack Dealers
• The Racial Problem Is Worldwide
• Kidney Thefts In India
• Down Goes The California Plan

January 2008

• England To Pay People To Lose Weight
• The Ends Justify The Means...
• Opt Out = Opt In
• What's Up With The Work Hours Claimed?
• Randomness Is The Civil War
• Be A Little Greatful
• Hypothermia In Spinal Cord Injury
• Quote of the Rotation
• I'm Gonna Be A Surgeon
• The Reality of American Fiscal Solvency
• Healthcare Is A Big Deal!
• The Social Justice Debate Continued
• Mark Lanier Visits From Medskool
• The Problem With Dr. Ron Paul

December 2007

• Medical Gift Cards
• Happy Holidays
• Would Single Payer Have Saved A Patient Requiring Liver Transplant?
• The Crystal Ball: Claifornia Taxes Will Pass
• Med School Ain't Business School
• Rudy Giuiliani For President?
• California 'Universal' Health Care
• NEJM Image Challenge
• Debunking Third World Myths
• To Promote Health Tourism
• My Governor Makes An Ass of Himself
• Keep Your Foreskin
• SGR Cuts Postponed...Again
• Making Money Off The Uninsured
• A Reasonable Cry For Transparency
• UCSF Fires Dean?
• The AMA Is To Blame For The Primary Care-Specialist Income Discrepancy
• Dramatic Alarmism
• Kevin Everett Walking
• Senator Cornyn Gets His Wish
• Mandatory Flu Shots
• Organ Theft: A Pandemic
• Human H5N1 Transmission?
• The Entire Debate Hit A Fence At 60 MPH And Exploded
• I Circ'd A Couple Kids
• The Estimates Are Above Reproach
• Policy Backup
• Situs Inversus

November 2007

• Open Courseware
• Docs As Drug Reps
• So What's The Big Complaint On Reimbursement?
• Obese Cannot Immigrate
• Last Laugh For Merck
• US Maternal Death Rate Higher Than Europe's
• Bird Flu Reaches The West
• Merck Settles
• Remember, Remember The Fifth of November...
• Why Censoring Watson Was A Mistake
• Another HIV Prosecution
• Your Opinion Counts
• 20/220 Rule Survives A Little Longer

October 2007

• Senator Cornyn On SCHIP
• Fluff Science
• Flaming Squirrel Terror
• Still No On SCHIP
• Policy: Introduction
• Socialized Medicine Was Evil Then...
• Online Heart Surgery
• Personal Electronic Health Records
• France Closes Down Paths To Free Healthcare
• FISA Bill
• SCHIP Fails
• Is It Christmas?
• Kevin Everett Taking Baby Steps
• Alzheimer's Test
• So Close On SCHIP
• Physician Shortage Hampers Reform?
• What's Scarier?
• Do You Need A Doc For All Drugs?
• Guidelines In The Wrong Hands
• Take SCHIP To The Public
• Can't Be Offended By Sex, Drugs & Rock N' Roll
• The Veto Came On SCHIP
• ...Or We'll Break Your Kneecaps
• Cause And Effect And Healthcare Rankings
• Age of Consent

September 2007

• Naegleria Fowleri Is Scary
• Old Thoughts On Vaccination
• Children Smell Bad, Or So Says The White House
• Deadly Space Bugs
• Another HIV Vaccine Trial Bust
• Toot Your Own Horn?
• Go To The Doc When You're Not Feeling Down, Or Don't Go At All?
• More On The New HillaryCare...
• The Burden of HillaryCare...
• I Don't Like Either Of Them But...
• Getting Rid Of HIV
• It's All So Confusing On Hormones...Or Something
• The Everett Injury
• The Ritz It Is Not
• Public Health Crushes Liberty In WWE Cage Match

August 2007

• Did They Make THe Ana Pou Case Go Away?
• SCHIP Enrollment
• What Is Going On In Cali?
• I Knew It Wasn't Your Fault
• Where's The Vioxx Money?
• CHIP Is For Who?
• Who Pays For Mistakes?
• Psychiatry Consult
• Massachusetts: Universal Ain't The Right Word
• Yeah, The System Is The Problem...
• It's All About Risk v Reward
• Animal Defenders?
• Death Gasp
• Why I'm Only Half A Hypocrite
• Grand Rounds Is At The Beach
• Free Antibiotics
• Didn't I See This Simpsons?
• I Be Bright
• It's Your Own Darn Fault

July 2007

• Roberts Has A 'Seizure'
• SCHIP Renewal
• DNI/DNR
• Grand Jury Doesn't Indict Anna Pou
• Charlie Weis Loses Malpractice Suit
• Signs Of A Bad Call Night For My Intern
• So What Doesn't Contribute To Cancer?
• John Edwards Knows Healthcare?
• It\'s Probably All Right To Get Sick Right Now
• For Profit To The Extreme
• Day Three And More
• Sicko
• Whoops! On XDR

June 2007

• Getting Ready For First Day
• More On Pay-for-Performance
• Shocking News: JAMA Jumps To Publish An Anti-P4P Study
• Dr. Anna Pou
• Grand Rounds Grand Rounds!
• Step 1 Preparing
• Step 1 Resources
• Why Do International Comparisons Peeve Me So?
• Step 1 Credits
• Step 1 Introduction
• Ethical Trauma Research?
• Now You Know Who To Hit Up For A Living Donor Organ
• Smoking On The Way To The OR
• More Controversy For The Administration
• Step 1 Is Done...!
• Wanna Make Money? Still Go Into Health Care
• Some Barely Make It Through With Everything At Their Disposal
• Do Docs Prescribe Too Much Procrit?
• Illegal Immigration Circles Back To Health Care
• Well I'm Hosed With Soft Drinks
• You Write So People Can Read

May 2007

• XDR TB Probably Shouldn't Equal Freakout
• Memorial Day Grand Rounds
• Wear Your Seatbelt
• When Holism Fails (All The Time?)
• Avian Flu Samples For All
• To Each Their Own?
• Trusting Patients
• Grand Rounds @ ImpactED Nurse
• We Know What's Good For You: No Trans Fat
• Futile Care
• Closer On CHIP
• A Question Echoed...
• Improving Health Care
• Where Have All The Medical Bloggers Gone?
• Too Much New Jersey
• HIV Tests
• No More Unhampered Wiretapping, Can This Possibly Get Out Of The Senate?
• More Power To The FDA, No Drug Imports
• Egyptian Medicine
• One Of Those Many Transition Points In Medical Education
• Race and Ethnicity Have No Place In Medicine
• So, What Does This Say About The HPV Vaccine?
• The British Medical Association Lays Reality Down
• The Global Warming Battle Goes Where It Needs To
• Further Evidence Of The Decline Of The Dollar
• OxyContin Sentlement Includes Criminal Liability
• Thank You Europe, May I Have Another?
• No More Hacking Away At The Bar
• The NYT Thinks The Private Market Sucks...
• The Health Of Our Allies
• Watch Out For Diethylene Glycol
• Thank God For MADD
• One Step Closer On CHIP
• Just One Fatty Meal Is Bad?
• Tactical Medicine
• Federalism Works?
• Cinco de Mayo
• Recovering Memories

April 2007

• Delusional On Cornyn
• More Of In Store Clinics
• Waiting...And Waiting...And Waiting
• Can Cornyn Be Beaten?
• Spurs Need A Win
• First In, First Out
• Earth Like Planet Discovered?
• Is CHIP Hillarycare On Installment?
• An Astronomy Themed Grand Rounds
• NEJM Gives Voice To Way Off Topic Physicians
• Does HIPPA Hinder Identifying Dangerous Individuals?
• A Smoke Free Texas
• Spurs Lose, Cry, Then Watch Mavs Lose
• Functional Disorders Cause Crimes
• HRT & Breast Cancer: The Link Is Growing
• Avert Your Eyes Or The Talent Will Blind You!
• Fat Doctor Grand Rounds
• Crawford Suspended
• Stern Previously "Incensed" With Crawford
• Was That The Spark?
• The Hypocrisy In Durham
• Big Numbers From Spurs Fans
• For The Hokie Nation
• The Pressure For Organs
• Virginia Tech Massacre
• Ejection Round Up
• Should People Be Abel To Sell Their Replacement Parts?
• Tim Duncan Ejected From Mavs Game
• One Down For The Bush Family
• Growth Hormone Replacement
• Can Someone Please Beat The Suns?
• Backlash At The Support For The Duke Lacrosse Players
• The Reason You Wear Seatbelts
• Crystal Gail Mangum's Record
• Mike Nifong To Face The Music
• Cuban Health Care System Does It Again!
• They Man Who Dreamed To Be Governor
• Burreaucracy Kills?
• Vioxx's Replacement Gets A Beat Down
• Run From The Vioxx Hills!
• The Duke Accuser Getting Killed By Media
• Anniversary of the Space Shuttle
• To Put A Name To The Duke Accuser
• The Duke Lacrosse Rape Case Comes To A "Close"
• Stem Cells Cure Diabetes?
• USC Football Is Incredible
• Dr. Dork Grand Rounds
• LaMarcus Aldridge Has Wolf-Parkinson-White Syndrome
• New AIDS Drug
• Trust Me, Obama Knows His Stuff
• Hatfield-McCoy & Von Hipple Lindau
• Coffee & Cigarettes
• Direct To Consumer Advertising Getting Bigger
• Reconsider Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Yet More Of HIV As Assault
• Learning From Governor Perry's "Mistakes"
• A Fair Shake
• Disgusting But Joyous
• Pretending To Play Lobbyist
• Antipsychotics + Alzheimer's
• Stem Cells Lead To Heart Valve
• Calling All Type O Donors No More
• Grand Rounds Is Up

March 2007

• Postnatal HIV Transmission
• Safest To Cover Bets Of The College Football Year
• Broken Ribs
• The Patient Who Won't Talk, The Patient Who Won't Be Quiet
• Can We Please Get Off The Conspiracy Theories?
• I Was Always Jealous of Doogie Howser
• Difference Between A Normal Person & A Scientist
• Scandal, No Show Contracts, New Jersey?
• Why Does Nothing Ever Come Of These Everyday Miracle Compounds?
• Snip, Snip
• Spurs #2 Franchise In All Of Sports
• As Stephen Colbert Would Say...
• A "Good" Problem
• The Compassionate Islamic Republic of Iran
• So Close To Third Year
• I Want To Love Stents, I Do!
• Tony Blair Grabs His Cajones
• Al Gore's Ruckus Accomplishes More Than He Ever Did In Office
• Prominent Figures In Politics & Cancer
• Very Necessary Housecleaning
• Grand Rounds As Stream of Consciousness
• "Whoops" & Duct Tape Go Together...
• More Evidence Healthcare Is The Domestic Issue
• Denouncing Statins From The Keyboard
• Man Invents Machine To Cure Himself Of Cancer?
• British Marines In Iraqi Waters
• The Greatest College Basketball Game Of All Time
• Juries Ain't Bright
• If This Happens, How Long Can The Option Of Force Be Kept Off The Table?
• Neural Prosthetics
• R-flurbiprofen
• No Surprise: Coerced Confessions
• Justice Delayed Is...
• USC Collapses. Ouch.
• Shut Up Roy
• USC v. North Carolina
• Not Too Complex?
• Brain Cancer Hope
• Update: British Marines In Iran
• Bring'em Home...In A While...
• Ready For Some Basketball?
• On Metastatic Breast Cancer To Bone
• Iran Steps Over Another Huge Line
• So Much To Look Foward To...
• Common Sense...Meet The FDA
• Take That Nietzsche!
• Screenwriting
• The Pharma - Physician Relationship Back In The News
• Ambition Is Always A Character Flaw
• Volume 3, #26
• CHIPS (Ahoy)
• Poof Went The HPV Requirement
• Okay You Can Do "Almost" Anything With It
• Liberal, Health Policy, & Slate Mag? Absurd!
• "Single Payer" Gets Its Ass Kicked
• The Doubter In Me
• Nanotechnology...
• Caffeine Poisoning
• Scary Mary Poppins
• Another USC O.J. Gets Off
• A Million Little Pieces
• Who Needs A Family Member...
• Grand Rounds #3.25
• Just A Weird Disease
• No Papers? No Healthcare
• Walter Reed Scandal Claims Another Victim
• The Ultimate Ambition
• Not Hardcore Criticism, Just Funny...
• NCAA Basketball Tourney
• Legless Trojans Lose
• National ID Cards
• Finally, We Know We're Safe...
• Los Angeles Times Slow To A Racism Story
• A Stunner On The Hill?
• O.J. Mayo
• Pay Attention Over Here
• Big Scary Warnings For Synthetic Erythropoietins And The Like...
• Washington DC Residents Finally Safe
• I Wonder If Cheney Would Still Be VP Without Health Insurance...
• Whoops...
• Is There Trauma In The Loss?
• How's The Pride of Massachusetts Doing?
• Obesity: Yeah So What?
• Penetrating Abdominal Wound Claims Another Victim
• Disgusting
• At Least He's Got The Basic Question Down
• Dick Cheney's Blood Clot
• Grand Rounds Volume 3, #24
• For...Of...The Free
• From Reggie To Jared
• Yeah, All The Facts Are In...
• Very Cool...
• Customer Service Rage
• I Fire You, Then I'm Fired
• Vanc Causes Thrombocytopenia
• Walter Reed = Fate Of All American Health Care!
• Virginia Joins Texas
• Malaria Treatment On The Cheap
• "Pseudodementia"
• Walter Reed Gets Change At The Top
• Open It To The Public

February 2007

• I'd Laugh...
• Humans To Artic & Antarctic
• Prevalence of HPV
• Wrong Again American Intelligence
• Taking All Bets...
• Defending Bush's Health Care Plan
• Bird Flu In Kuwait
• I'm A Red Bull Man Myself
• Communicating The Differences
• Grand Rounds Vol 3, #23
• Stupid Time Warner Cable
• People Resist Mandates
• James Cameron The Showman
• Oscars
• How To Explain Libertarianism To The Bleeding Heart
• Hyping The Reggiegate Story
• Avian Flu Summary
• Cheney Makes A Good Interview & Cardinal Pell Makes A Point
• Les Fichus Américains Partent Avec N'importe quoi!
• Misleading Title, Interesting Summary
• Dads Who Aren't Dads
• Scottie Pippen To Spurs?
• Shocking: Think Tank Findings Differ From Peer Reviewed Research
• You Don't Have To Go Home, But You Can't Stay Here To Become Illegal
• Finally With A Cup Of Coffee I Get To The Day's Most Heart Warming Story
• If I Didn't Have My Paranoia I Don't Know What I'd Do...
• Merck Suspends Active Campaigning
• My Childhood Reaffirmed
• ESPN's Trade Machine Bane To Study Habits
• New Way Of Doing Things
• The Onion: Doc Pitches Friend For Job
• Bob Woodruff Recovery
• Senator Johnson Transfered To Rehab Facility
• Boo Hoo
• Jaba, I Mean Charlie, Gets A Mistrial
• Grand Rounds - Oscar Style
• Well My Republican Primary Vote Is Cast
• Pete Carroll Has Never Even Been To San Diego...
• Always fun to see...
• In Bed...
• Rumors Won't Die...
• Mission Iraq: Hyperbole
• Evidence Based Medicine In The Press
• Doctors Are Learning Odd Lessons...
• Drug Coated Stents As A Failure of the American Health Care System
• Bird Flu Reaches Moscow
• Deniers Are All The Same
• Southerners Stunned, As They Pour Gravy On Chicken Fried Steak
• "Expert" & Brady Testify
• Another Rumor Buried
• Charlie Weis Is Helping Raise Physician Malpractice Premiums
• The Models Aren't Perfect?
• An Antibody To gp120
• A Question That Really Does Need Asking...
• TMA Refuses Blank Check To Governor Perry...
• PAC 10 Coaches React
• Valentine's Day Negligence
• Hapless Apologist For All Things Health Care Providers Do
• More Trouble For USC
• More of HIV as Assault
• Minority Report Coming Into Own?
• Bird Flu In The UK Update
• The Edwards Health Plan Explained
• Marketing Is A Powerful Thing
• Watch Some USC Football
• Respiratory Distress For UK Vet
• Signing Day
• Tales From The Emergency Room...
• Earth's Oldest...Thing
• Common Sense On Global Warming
• Danelo Intoxicated
• Dracula
• Judicial Branch Brings Stick With Nail In It To WWF Match
• Bring Back Vioxx!
• Quacks On Global Warming
• Edwards Wants It All
• H5N1 In Britain
• Ah, Perry, You Ol' Dog...
• Medical Studies Are Worthless
• Health Care As An Issue
• $10,000 To Flog The IPCC Report
• Old People Should Cheer...
• It Comes In A Nifty Tube...
• Don't Worry They'll Be Able To Buy Insurance With A Tax Credit
• Why Does Cuba Have So Many Doctors?
• U.S. Cause of World Problems
• Prions Are So Yesterday
• 200 Foot Tall Rocket Explodes

January 2007

• Nigeria's First Bird Flu Death
• Aren't We On The Same Team?
• Chinese Harvesting Organs...Still
• Bush's Health Care Plan
• The City of "Lights"?
• O.J. Mayo Was Set Up
• The Camera...
• Grand Rounds Is A Burden...
• TV Drug Ads Tug At The Heart
• Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
• Bird Flu In Japan
• What's The Point In Having Power If You Can't Use It To Crush Your Enemies?!
• AD ASTRA PER ASPERA
• What Does Obama See Health Care As?
• A Complete Lack Of Understanding Of The Situation
• Grand Rounds - Moving On Up...
• "The Smoking Gun" For Global Warming
• McCool v. Merck
• Hey, Hey Goodbye
• What Schwarzenegger's Plan Offers ERs
• Direct To Consumer To Get Redirected Through Washington
• Cholesterol & Dementia
• Newspaper Built On Oil & Gas Money Asks If Global Warming Is Crock...
• Iran To IAEA: Don't Step Off That Plane!
• Medical Conference To Debate Life's Great Mysteries
• The Time Machine
• A Week Without DA Nifong
• Charity Care Dying
• Your Health Insurance Covers Botox?
• Tamiflu Now Even Less Effective
• My Growing Collection Of Pharm Pens Is Safe
• Edward Kennedy: Master Of Rhetoric, Not Of Driving Or Understanding Complex Problems
• UC, Loma Linda, Stanford & USC Students Worry
• In Case You Forgot: Bird Flu Still Around
• Cancer Death Rates Drop
• Too Much Water...
• Baby Steps To Civil Liberty Protections
• Universal Coverage Now
• Scientists As Alarmists
• The Autism Epidemic "Myth"?
• Grand Rounds As A Poem
• "Ice" Days
• Some Help...
• Yucatan
• I Write Like A Fourteen Year Old Girl...
• Rashomon
• I Have A Dream
• I'll Have A House Salad, And The Grand Rounds As My Main Course
• Barbarian To Have Health Insurance
• So...Is That A 'No'?
• Tim Johnson Recovering
• Without A Second Thought
• Embarassing
• Avatar
• Humans Aren't Part Of Nature!
• Many Reasons To Root For The Buckeyes
• M
• Olmert: Lies!
• Mario Danelo: RIP
• Iran To Taste Nuclear Weapons...
• The Future Of USC Football
• Misuse Of The Defibrillator
• Residency Competitiveness: The Balls
• The Iraq War & The VA Hospital System
• Residency Competitiveness: Whammy!
• Class (And Wit) Not Required...
• Is Khamenei Dead?
• Residency Competitiveness: Made With Bits Of Real Panther
• Proof Of Global Warming
• The Real World
• I'm Sure She'll Make It To PTA Meetings
• Residency Competitiveness: Loud Noises!
• Slate: Get Nifong A Lawyer
• Residency Competitiveness: Intro
• "Best" Game Ever?
• World Back On Correct Axis

December 2006

• Rose Bowl Live
• Rose Bowl Sim (Part Deux)
• Preview: Michigan
• Space Uninteresting, Back To The iPod & TiVo
• Less Sitcks, More Protection
• Defining Intellectual Property Rights
• British Paper Of Repute Fails To Overreact
• Bruins Continue Spiral Into Ninth Circle
• Happy Holidays
• Bird Flu In Egypt
• Drugs Land You In A Bad Health Plan
• Fault To Be Found In All Vioxx Cases
• Sanctions Come
• Patents Lower Creativity
• When The University President...
• Automatic Tracking System Upsets Man...
• Your Body Should Be Your Own
• Semi-Justice
• Sharing Your Philosophy With A Cartoonist
• Free Will? Phewie!
• I'm Utterly Convinced This Is A Real Thing
• ESPN Hosts Idiots
• Transfers & Kidnappings
• Review Of The Season
• For Profit, Not For Care
• Should We Be Worried?
• Jump On The Romney Bandwagon
• A Charlie Brown Grand Rounds
• Medics To Be Executed
• Bowling Season
• Drug Coated Stents Get The Nod
• Newt Is An Idiot...
• If William Buffet Jumped Off A Cliff, It Must Mean...
• Hicks Don't Buy Vioxx Case
• Explaining AVMs
• Mind Controlling Parasites
• Cover Up! Cover Up!
• Good Luck Kid
• Okay, We Get It, You're Barely Feeding Your Family...
• Stomach Stapling Now Or Stenting Tomorrow
• Diabetes Would Be A Lovely Disease To Cure
• Are Infectious Agents Predisposing You To Brain Tumors?
• Medicare Reimbursement
• Lucky Bastard Promises To Keep Taking Stuff
• The Real Civil Liberties Question...
• So, We've Got That Going For Us
• Our Evolution Stinks
• Whew, Almost Missed That Rotavirus Diagnosis
• Intercerebral Hemorrhage Decides To Play Politics
• When Underwear Betray
• Election 2006 Draws To A Close
• A Motivation For Murder
• Blog Update
• When Grand Rounds Meshes With School
• Take That Interest Rates
• So This Is What Stubborn Prosecution Gets You
• By The Whip
• Rabbis & US Academics Flock To Iran
• To Recall What You Read On The Spot...
• Public Health Menace: "Some Dude"
• Moon Is Giant Rock...No Reason To Visit...
• Eat Too Much Beef, Drink Too Much Milk
• Apparently The Knee Wasn't Bum Enough...
• Embed WMP
• Why The Lakers Suck
• Troy Smith Runs Over The Compeitition
• Discovery Makes Orbit
• Castro Works To Cure World's Ailments
• Medicare Stop Gap
• Time For A Drink
• A Traditional Thanksgiving
• A Date Which Will Live In Infamy
• Predicting Schizophrenia
• News Travels Slow...
• State Of Fear
• Water On Mars
• The Price Of Aging
• Hopefully Their Organs Won't Be Donated...
• Run For The Hills, vCJD Is Coming!
• Grand Rounds Volume 3, #11
• A "Growing" Trend
• The Market & Medicine
• How'd I Do?
• Farting On A Plane
• NYC Becomes Nanny State
• I Love Space Exploration
• Toe Tags Are The Answer!
• 10 Body Myths
• More On Patient Responsibility
• BCS Bowls
• Final Thoughts On UCLA
• Final Quick Hits
• Outplayed
• Nearly Half Of Uninsured By Choice
• China Bans Transplant Tourism
• Don't Damage Your Liver In Japan
• Psychotics Vote For Bush
• We Know What You Eat!
• Live Healthy (Or Die)
• Preview: UCLA

November 2006

• From Medskool Mobile
• Funny, Enraging Stuff
• Africa Gets Fat
• An Unbalanced View
• Tranny Phone Sex Operator Roots For UCLA
• Going To Class Pays Off
• P4P Won't Work This Way Here
• Grand Rounds
• Than A Llama At A Spitting Contest
• Why A +1 System Could Work
• Breaking Down The BCS
• Mission Impossible Style
• USC v. Notre Dame Open Thread
• Preview: Notre Dame
• Beating A Dead Horse
• Seeking Class Action Status
• Why The SGR Fix Is On The Back Burner
• The Marvel Of What Can Go Wrong
• Getting to the Heart of the Matter
• Repetition
• Being Prompt Is Overrated
• Controller of Fate
• What Must National Health Care Look At?
• What Exactly Are Economists Good At?
• Is It Coming?
• Ah, German Liability
• Preview: Cal
• In The Guise Of Great News
• Dumping Patients
• A Hero Dies
• Kidneys For Sale
• Pay-For-Performance Is Coming
• Why Wide Wealth Gaps Hurt Health
• A New Date For The End Of The World
• The Holy Grail of Grand Rounds
• Pete Carroll to Mike Belotti: "Maybe We Can Get Together For A Drink Some Time"
• Week McDreamy
• The College Football Picture Part Deux
• America's Health Intelligence Service
• May Stop Fighting...
• Comparative Struggles
• The College Football Picture
• Week 11 Picks
• GR Vol. 3 and #7
• And...It's Official
• Perchance To Dream
• That Was Quick
• As Of This Morning
• Election Summary
• Election Night Open Thread
• Could It Be A Disappointing Day For the Dems?
• Hacking Democracy
• Calling Tomorrow
• Slackjawed
• Saddam Sentenced To Death
• The Fifth of November
• Pick'em Open Thread
• Preview: Stanford
• Week 10 Picks
• Full Face Transplant
• Should You Really Get Poked?
• More Bad News For Nifong
• Being Clever...
• Help Us Jon Carry
• Grand Rounds
• Iran Touts Beautiful Sand, Nuclear Facilities As Tourist Destinations
• We Know Who The Culprit Is...

October 2006

• Week 9 Quick Hits
• Week 9 Poll Challenge
• Sportswriters Write Without Understanding
• Craptacular Doesn't Begin To Describe It
• Missed Deadlines
• Tragedy Of The Commons & Medicine
• I Need Not Know What Happened...
• Page 10N: Iran Steps Up Uranium Enrichment
• Preview: Oregon State
• A Bounce Back Week
• The Mystical World Of Consumer Driven Health Plans
• Early Voting
• Poor Quality Celebrity Voices Disagree With Michael J. Fox
• Volume 3 #5
• Pharma In For A Surprise?
• Put Down The Phone
• Iran Shaking It Up
• Quick Hits From The Week That Almost Was
• Shuttle Launch
• That Sniffle Becomes More Insidious
• Michael J. Fox Has A Spiritual Bond With The Good People Of "Mizzoura"
• An Implantable Artificial Eye
• The British Are So Efficient
• HEBuddy Grabs A Lead Pipe Goes After Wal Mart
• Israel Suspends Vaccines
• Poll Challenge #1
• Don't Blame The TV Yet!
• Watching Symbiosis In Work
• Washington & Washington State Are Good?!
• Karl Dorell Proves He's The Worst Coach In I-A
• It Was Different!
• Rethinking Stents
• The First Passing
• With Open Arms
• The Snooze Week
• Ahmadinejad Denounces Israel
• More On The New York Times' Coverage
• Stuffing Things Down Your Gullet Not Always Without Consequences
• Only If We Hold The Trials In Tightwad, Missouri
• Cancer Killing Viruses
• As Long As This Doesn't Fall Into The Hands Of The Klingons
• In The News Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. Buys Huge Stake In Hospital Chain
• You're In Prison Because You Didn't Eat Enough Fish
• Grand Rounds Is Up At Emeriblog
• The Original Title Has Been Deleted...
• Week 8 Quick Hits
• No Wonder All That Red Bull...
• The Real Key To Victory In November? Start A War!
• Indonesia Rapidly Becoming Known For More Than Beautiful Beaches
• Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
• Ned Lamont To Stink On Webcast
• USC Beats The Sun Devils
• As The Sun Sets On Another Saturday...
• Heisman Voter's Job Made Easier
• Mark Richt Sucks Me In Again
• Brain Tumors Supposed To Be Bad Omens
• Back In The Driver's Seat
• PCI v. CABG
• Worse Than Saddam
• Take Care Of Me!
• Week 7 Picks
• Preview: Arizona St.
• America's Most "American" President
• Pay For Performance In The UK
• Coverage Of The Duke Rape Case
• Getting Creative
• Just Declare The Whole Darn Administration Unfit
• Stop Smoking Now!
• Psoriasis & Heart Attacks
• It Is Near Halloween...
• Grand Rounds 3 & 3
• Britons Stunned To Learn American Courts Are For Americans
• The Lost World
• Americans Crush Opposition...Win Another Noble Prize
• More On The IOM's Call For P4P
• Wk 6 Quick Hits
• Pickaroo Open Thread
• Preview: Washington
• The "Street" Pharmacy
• Feeling Around For A Right Of Passage
• Once Again Into The Breach
• Week 6 Picks
• No Billing For You!
• Answer: The Ability To Write A Blog
• You Can't Trust Anybody!
• Medicine Conquers Man's Most Vicious Foe
• NSA Analysts Have To Close Solitare, Get Back To Work
• Update: 5 American Science Guys
• CNN Anchor Watches Movie, Becomes Expert
• U.S. Mobilizes For War...Yet Again...
• Med Rants On Common Good On Health Care Courts
• The 2nd Edition Of The Third Volume...
• Infant Mortality Linked To Lifestyle...Kind've...
• Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe
• 155 Dead, 7 Survive
• Week 5 Quick Hits
• Well If California Is Thinking About It...

September 2006

• Who's #2?
• Pedophilia No Longer Just For Clergy
• Preview: Washington St.
• Finally Those Terrorists Get What's Coming...Or Something
• Battery From A Medical Student
• Coach O
• Feel The Wrath
• PCP, ICK!
• Need A Liver In Beijing
• Greed As Fuel
• Batting .555
• Reasons Not To Do Spine Work
• The Paternal City of New York
• Even The Sportscasters Are Against Us
• The Vacuum Hose In One Pocket, Then The Other
• All That Work...
• Take That Civil Liberties...
• None Like It Hot!
• The Most Hated Entity In Healthcare?
• Quicker Backtracks Have Not Been Seen
• Put Flammable Liquid Under Some Guy's Ass? Go For It!
• What's Safer Than Surgery?
• The Great Train Robbery
• More On Garza v. Merck
• Enough Swiss Cheese Already!
• Type 3 Diabetes
• Grand Rounds Volume 3, Number 1
• October Surprise
• Quick Hits Week 4
• Improvements In Lung Transplantation?
• Genus On Board
• Preview: Arizona
• Can This Really Fly?
• Quote of the Day
• Ahmadinejarmageddon
• Distinguished Institute Report Draws Scorn From Lowly Medical Student
• "ACT" Right
• Customers Get Off Better Than Employees
• Plan D Improves
• We Can Protect Mice From The Black Death
• Week 4 Pickaroo
• Lucas Does It Again
• Studying At Strip Clubs
• Charity Hospital
• Grand Rounds Vol. 2, 52
• One More Jury Not To Be Trusted
• Brutal
• Tax Credits & Subsidies
• A Casual Attitude All The Way To Sanctions
• It's A Crazy, Crazy, Crazy Game Day
• "Coalition" Falls Apart In Front of Mad Man?
• Insured?
• Penis Transplant
• Fighting Diabetes
• Nosferatu
• Surgeon General
• Traditional Medicine Is Overrated
• Protesting The Obesity Gap
• Takes A Dump On The Web, Calls It Op-Ed
• The Cost of Alarm
• It's A Coincidence!
• More Reggiegate
• Quick Hits Week 3
• Cheer Up Says Deadspin
• Preview: Nebraska
• Take It All Away
• Pickaroo Week 3
• Hilarity From The Corn Fields
• Ann Richards Leaves Us
• We Do It For Chickens
• Best States
• Get In Line!
• A Year And A Pocket Full O' Dreams
• Yeah, I'm Going To Be Seeing Geriatric Patients
• Going In & Cracking Skulls
• The Joys of Socialized Medicine
• New Template & Touch Ups
• What I Interact With Affects My Health?!
• Grand Rounds
• All COX Inhibitors Are Not Created Equal
• Plan Nine From Outer Space
• Burnt
• The Biggest Thing Since Sliced Bread
• Inching In The Right Direction With Cancer
• I Flooded The Engine!
• Politicians Live Up To Responsibility...
• ESPN Jumps The Gun
• Capitalism Simply Doesn't Work!
• Do The Blues Want Universal Healthcare?
• Good Time To Be A Sick Veteran
• Diversity In Medicine
• Links
• Archives
• Illness In The Locker Room
• Holy Frijoles!
• The Health Of The Bench...