Medicine 2.0, Blog Carnival About Web 2.0 and Medicine, Year 1, Issue 9

This is the 9th edition of Medcine 2.0 -- a blog carnival about Web 2.0 and medicine. The archive is available here. A blog carnival is a blog event similar to a magazine dedicated to a particular topic. Each edition of a blog carnival is in the form of a blog article that contains links to other blog articles on the particular topic (source: Wikipedia). The carnival is also available as a slide show on Google Presentations.



How and Why to use Second Life for Education? ScienceRoll.com.
Berci Mesko explains why education has its golden age in Second Life virtual world.

100 Web Resources for Medical Professionals. Nursing Online Education Database | NOEDb.
If you are employed in the medical field or are currently studying medicine, the 100 Web sites collected by NOEDb may be a good place to start. One hundred web sites may be too many or not enough, depending on one's perspective. During one of my recent talks about Web 2.0 in Medicine with Cleveland Clinic residents, I mentioned that I subscribe to 600 web sites to which one of the residents replied: "I probably don't even know the names of 600 web sites..." You do not have to read 100, 600 or even 5 web sites. Do what interests you and suits your research profile. A journalist once asked one of the best hedge fund managers on Wall Street how he gets the latest up-to-the-minute news -- by email alerts,RSS or watching Bloomberg TV... "From yesterday's newspaper," the manager replied modestly. It is not the data, it is what you do with it.

World's First Human-Powered, Doctor-Guided Search Service for Health by OrganizedWisdom.
"The New Health Search Engine Weeds out Spam Sites, Redundant Links and Clutter by Using People to Find and Organize the Best Health Resources on the Web." Nothing beats the combination of UpToDate/Pubmed/Google in my opinion but who knows, may be OrganizedWisdom's WisdomCard is the answer for some people.

Google News Image View: Allergy. Allergy Notes.
The image view allows you to quickly browse through a visual display of news articles of your interest -- just substitute "allergy" in the search query with any other topic, for example, "cholesterol."

Surfing the waves of medicine-two-point-oh! Constructive Medicine 2.0.
What is the difference between Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0? Industry vs. science? Scott Shreeve, M.D. also tries to define Health 2.0.

Medgadget's Guide to Hacking into Social Networks for Doctors. Medgadget.
Medgadget shows that an "ultra-exclusive physician network" can potentially be penetrated by non-physicians using publicly available data.

Video: A Brief History of Medicine (American Style). ScribeMedia.org.
A video homage to Michael Wesch’s Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing Us.

Health 2.0: User-Generated Healthcare Conference 2007. Health Care Law Blog.
Bob Coffield live-blogged the conference: "... there was an incredible amount of excitement and enthusiasm around what is happening as this group tries to figure out how best to position themselves and their companies in this new non-traditional health sector. I was also struck by the fact that many of those who have jumped in with new ventures have done so as a result of a personal family health story or a frustration with how they were treated by the current health care system."

My Talk on "Health 2.0" for the 5th Annual Healthcare M&A and Corporate Development Conference. The Efficient MD.
Joshua Schwimmer, M.D. shares the transcript of his talk as a part of the panel titled "Healthcare 2.0: Technology & Healthcare Services of the Future."

Are Physicians Marginalized in Health 2.0? John Sharp.
Yes, they may be marginalized but this is not unexpected. Most physicians are too busy seeing patients (and writing guides how to penetrate unprotected social networks). By the way, anybody can start a social network now on Ning.com. UOP and one of the Boston schools already did.

Social Bookmarking for Physicians. DavidRothman.net.
David Rothman, one of the most productive blogging medical librarians, writes about PeerClip, the newest contender for the title of “Digg for Medical Literature.” Maybe it would be better to call it a “Digg/del.icio.us for Medical Literature.”

Web 2.0 in Medical Education. Medical Education Blog.
A good collection of links. One example of using a blog for medical education is shown below.

Topics Discussed During the Internal Medicine Rotation at Cleveland Clinic in September 2007. Clinical Cases and Images - Blog.
A blog can be used as an educational portfolio for both personal learning and teaching.

How to create a blog carnival: Step by Step. ScienceRoll.
If you like (or don't like) this edition of the carnival, Berci Mesko explains how to start your own on any topic you choose.

The next edition of Medicine 2.0 will be hosted at HighlightHealth on October 14, 2007.

Image source: ScienceRoll, a Creative Commons License.

Updated: 01/04/2008

Miguel de Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote

According to Writer's Almanac:

September 29 was the likely birthday of Miguel de Cervantes, "whose life was a series of misfortunes. As a young man, he fought in a war against the Ottoman-Turkish Empire, and he became a war hero, receiving special recognition from the king. But on the way home from the war, he was captured by pirates, held for ransom for five years, and chained to a wall for months at a time. He finally made it back to Spain, where nobody even remembered the battle he had fought in.

In 1595, he was charged with embezzlement, even though he was probably one of the only honest employees working for the government at the time. Having escaped five years of captivity in Africa, Cervantes now found himself imprisoned in his own country for a crime he didn't commit.

And it was in prison that Cervantes first got the idea for his masterpiece, Don Quixote..."

Being imprisoned twice while he did not do anything wrong, Miguel de Cervantes wrote this famous quote from Don Quixote:

"Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men; no treasures that the earth holds buried or the sea conceals can compare with it; for freedom, as for honor, life may and should be ventured; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can fall to the lot of man."

Writer's Almanac is one of the podcasts I subscribe to in Google Reader and try to listen to daily. The feed URL is below:

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510101

References:
Don Quixote, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Best Web Feeds Reader for Medical and General Information
Image source: Wikipedia, public domain.

Professor with pancreatic cancer gives his last lesson on life

According to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

"Randy Pausch is a 46-year-old computer science professor who has incurable pancreatic cancer. It's not that he's in denial about the fact that he only has months to live, he told the 400 listeners packed into McConomy Auditorium on the campus, and the hundreds more listening to a live Web cast."


WSJ video

After months of experimental chemotherapy at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Pausch had one of the most aggressive recurrences his doctors have ever seen and reportedly has only a few months to live.

"With his oldest son, 5-year-old Dylan, Dr. Pausch went on a recent trip to Disney World and to swim with dolphins, thinking Dylan may be the only child who will have strong direct memories of him."

"If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you," he said during his lecture.

References:
Randy Pausch's Cancer Update page. CMU.edu.
CMU professor gives his last lesson on life. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
A Professor’s Farewell Sparks a Media Frenzy. NYTimes, 11/2007.
Link via Kevin, M.D.

Related:
Keeping Priorities Straight, Even at the End. NYTimes, 04/2008.
A Final Farewell. WSJ, 05/2008.
Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture Video Available with Transcript & Slides. Digital Inspiration, 08/2008.

Updated: 08/14/2008

Doctors in 1950s Cigarette Ads: How Times Have Changed

1949 TV commercial: More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette

How times have changed... Click here to visit the web site for Smash The Ash campaign supported by Cleveland Clinic.


Quit Smoking Videos on YouTube

References:

Doctors Recommend Smoking Camels. Old-Time.com.

Related reading:

What cigarette do you smoke, Doctor? Respectful Insolence, 10/2007.
FDA Regulation of Tobacco — Pitfalls and Possibilities. NEJM Volume 359:445-448 July 31, 2008 Number 5.
When Doctors, and Even Santa, Endorsed Tobacco. NYTimes, 10/2008.
Top 40 Creative Ads Made to Stop You Smoking. Bored Panda, 2009.
"Cocaine for toothache" and other ads that would never be allowed now http://goo.gl/eeYX3 - Cocaine was sold over the counter in the U.S. until 1914.
The Physician in US Cigarette Advertisements, 1930–1953 (illustrated review) http://1.usa.gov/VcuA7W via @Skepticscalpel

A Hospitalist Night On Call

FatDoctor (her choice of pseudonym, not mine) is a hospitalist who had an eventful night on call and post-call day but she liked it. Here is the summary:

15 hours worked
1 direct admit
1 consult
9 ER admissions
38 calls from nurses
5 problems that needed immediate attention
13 moments of laughter with nursing staff
0 code
0 rapid responses
1 “stat medical consult” as I was on way out to parking lot

Read the rest in But, Who’s Counting? by FatDoctor.org. She also writes: "My work at urgent care and as a hospitalist is like the Jiffy Lube of healthcare. We can change your oil, but for real care, better see your PCP."

Further reading:
Practicing cost-effective medicine. One clinician's top 10 tips. Robert M. ACP Hospitalist, 2007.
Achilles Heel. FatDoctor.org.
Lube Job. FatDoctor.org.
Some Tips from a Hospitalist. FatDoctor.org.
In the Fatosphere, Big Is in, or at Least Accepted. NYTimes, 01/2008.

Updated: 01/21/2008