The next in our series of “Best Posts of the Month” is from July 30, 2009:

The Los Angeles Times reports that a daguerreotype depicting Phineas Gage has been discovered. In the next issue of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, an article establishing the identity of the man holding an iron rod (see [...]

I was struck during President Obama’s health care speech before Congress several months ago that the reforms he advocates would not go into effect for four years, until 2014. This timetable, too, is written into both the House and Senate versions.
Why the delay?
It is hard for me to imagine, even given the federal rulemaking [...]

Dan Nadworny sends out the weekly email update to our Emergency Department staff. Above is an excerpt from his latest edition. The photo was taken at the entrance to our ED.

As the Thanksgiving holiday weekend draws to a close, I want to give a “shout-out” to Robert Wiggins, President, and his staff at Gourmet Caterers in Roslindale, MA. Each year Mr. Wiggins donates dozens of gift certificates for Thanksgiving and Christmas “turkey dinners for 10 with all the trimmings” to charities who then auction [...]

I just read a newspaper article reporting that users of http://www.bedbugregistry.com/ have been reporting the most complaints in Toronto and Vancouver.
I checked out the “registry” and find it both fun and enlightening. Check it out!
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The Engage with Grace blog rally has spread far and wide, for the second year. Here is a list of participants that I have seen so far. I’ll keep adding. If I missed you, please submit a comment with the name and url, and I will update this posting.
In case you wonder [...]

This is a short break from Engage with Grace to consider the other end of the spectrum of life. Each year on the night before Thanksgiving, our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) holds a small party called “An Evening of Thanks”. It is a chance for parents and their now-larger babies to return [...]

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2010 is approaching fast. This is the time of year I start watching out for crystal ball predictions of what’s in store for us.
For example, check out IBM’s vision for 2010, Pharma 2010: The Threshold of Innovation (pdf).
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Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers participated in the first documented “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at having all of us understand and communicate our end-of-life wishes.
It was a great success, with over 100 bloggers in the healthcare space and beyond participating and spreading the word. Plus, it [...]

Google will auto-complete your search query based upon common things people type. This can be eye-opening. For example, here are the Google suggested searches for “Doctors are…”:

Lest you believe this is a representative survey of how people feel about doctors, I present the Google suggested searches for “What are…” for comparison: