The National Academies Press has put out a book that you can read online (or purchase) called Science, Evolution, and Creationism, which I think hopes to quash the debate (I don’t know, haven’t read it). The description:

In the book Science, Evolution, and Creationism, a group of experts assembled by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine explain the fundamental methods of science, document the overwhelming evidence in support of biological evolution, and evaluate the alternative perspectives offered by advocates of various kinds of creationism, including “intelligent design.” The book explores the many fascinating inquiries being pursued that put the science of evolution to work in preventing and treating human disease, developing new agricultural products, and fostering industrial innovations. The book also presents the scientific and legal reasons for not teaching creationist ideas in public school science classes.

Unfortunately, it’s hard to convince someone with fixed beliefs (especially religious ones) of something. But kudos for putting it together, NAP.

No offense Eric (friend who works for an IRB) but danah boyd’s letter from E. Scrooge to Santa about his IRB violations is spot-on.

These rust stickers make your car or bike look like a clunker, so thieves will go for someone else’s..

Time’s 50 best websites of 2007.

Need another guilty pleasure blog? Passive Aggressive Notes.

Interesting list to check out; lame there’s not even one medical or science blog on the list.

Reuters’ list.

A good laugh.

Totally, totally off-topic, but I am harnessing the amazing, gigantic audience of Over My Med Body (audience: 2, hi mom and dad!) to support my cousin, who made this video for Chipotle with seven classmates at KU. View it early, view it often–apparently if they win, they get some money, which college students can always use. Good luck, Patrick!

Indexed is a fun little blog I read with entries being simple graphs on index cards. Today’s entry with a healthcare feel:

Here’s all the entries tagged as ’sickness.’ Pretty funny stuff.

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.

I love Best of Craigslist. Some recent goodies:

• Survival of the Fittest
• Ass-Kicking Machine
• BUY MY STUPID COUSIN’S AWESOME KAYAK!

Happy Friday.

Since we’re in the gross-out theme, here’s some people pulling botfly larvae out of a guy’s back. (The botfly matures inside living flesh and then hatches out.) Warning: pretty nasty, also some PG-13 swearing upon removing the larvae.

This Skittles commercial is pretty funny.

Supposedly animated by the South Park guys (but not crude or rude or offensive): “LIfe–it was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing or dance while the the music was being played.” Good to remember this, especially as you’re deep in medical school, residency, fellowship… Great, short video.

Fantastic illustrations of anatomy from Japan.

What the stars look like 20 years later.

You only think I guessed wrong! That’s what’s so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha…

They won’t cover the repair bills.

Wait until the words start. That’s awesome.

Usually I find these Internet picture loop things annoying, but Shocking Cats is cute and funny as hell.

Great 15 minute film on teenagers in LA and their views on money. Thousand dollar handbags for 16 year-olds? Just plain wrong.

Fascinating look at how different businesses stay in business in New York City, from drug dealers to cabbies to MoMA to the Yankees to H&M. Definitely worth a read.

Sooo disturbing. (Click to watch if the video isn’t working.)

Filed under “Bitter, Bitter Irony, You Taste So Very Sweet”: Protesters march to let their children walk in graduation if they didn’t pass the Texas high school exam, and of course, they march with this sign:

This just ain’t right. This guy must have some sort of malformation of his orbital ridge, or something, cause I have no idea how he’s getting his globe (eyeball) so far out. I think it’s real–you can see the lateral rectus muscle as the camera pans to the side…

Shabu is 100% pure crystal meth imported from China via the Philippines and Hawaii. A group in Denver has a 72 hour party high, and then each take 40mg of Valium to sleep to be ready to go back to the working world on Monday.

I’ll stick with alcohol.

My Generation. Old people rock, I don’t care what you say.

Knock-off of Dora the Explorer. Too funny.

An amazing, amazing come from behind victory in the last minutes and seconds of the NCAA Men’s Division 2 Finals. It ain’t over til it’s over.

New research suggests there’s a new breed of twins out there: semi-identical.

Two sperm fertilize one egg, and then the egg splits into two embryos. (They found sets of twins who have identical DNA from mom, but different DNA from dad.) I can think of a couple sets of twins who are apparently fraternal, but look so strikingly similar that I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re actually semi-identical.

Too funny.

Really cute short story and animation about cardboard cameras in the schoolyard. Promo for the new This American Life TV show which I can’t wait for. (And if you’ve never listened to the radio program, you’re missing one of my favorite weekly delicacies.

Signup now with your .edu address.

Blogger’s friend on Jeopardy purposefully creates a 3-way tie so that everyone takes home their full prize money. How great is that?

This is a Quicktime video of the moon crossing the sun, as caught by the current space shuttle. Mesmerizing.

The Post Office will be making some of its mailboxes look like R2D2 for the 30th Star Wars anniversary. Awesome.

The LA County Department of Public Health put these signs around that mimic poor restaurant hygiene to encourage people to wash their hands to prevent influenza.

But I guess it’s okay to denigrate people, as long as it’s not their race you’re talking about. I love the cheers in the audience for added effect.

Despicable.

Late night talk show host Craig Ferguson discusses his own struggle with alcoholism on his show, as he’s now 15 years sober. Very courageous to speak so candidly, as I’m sure there’s many in Hollywood with similar addiction problems.

Both parachutes failed. And he was wearing a camera, videotaping it all. I can’t believe it.

Wherein they take experts in random fields, ask them questions on the topic, and assure them that they’re wrong about their answers. Totally evil, but I’ve felt this way a number of times when I’m being pimped and know I’m right, and my intern-resident-attending is actually wrong. Ahh schadenfreude.

Takes place during a PBL session. Pretty funny. (via my roommate)

Teen throws his colostomy bag at a police officer. I got an older gentleman’s diarrhea all over me last night in the ER, but I guess it’s not really the same as getting a big bag o’poop thrown at you. (Better than a bullet, though.)

No, seriously. (via KevinMD)

An awesome collection of images from some really old Japanese medical texts.

I’m dying at these edited TV videos, they are freaking hilarious.

Doogie Howser may be my favorite, followed by The Golden Girls; however, this was before I saw that they digitally edited floppy penises to all the Zoobilee Zoo characters. (This is especially sacreligious, given that my grandma and I had a running joke about how creepy that show was already.)

It’s been recalled! It may contain Listeria, which is classically the “dairy” bacteria that makes infants and pregnant women very sick.

Three-quarters of a ton of Trader Joe’s Thai chicken-pasta salad has been recalled because of possible listeria contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday.

The 12-ounce plastic containers of “spicy Thai-style pasta salad, with chicken breast” bear the number “P-21252″ inside the USDA inspection mark, and a sell-by date of “1-25-07,” according to the USDA.

Consumers should return the salad to stores or throw it away. Listeria bacteria can cause serious illness.

The salad was produced last Friday by Garden Leaf Foods in Gardena (Los Angeles County) and sold at Trader Joe’s in California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico, the USDA said. For details, visit www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Recall_006_2007_Release/index.asp

This Apple piece features my favorite things: Macs, technology, and the Palo Alto VA! (Using HD for endoscopy is the focus.)

The Best of Craigslist with a cancer survivor’s tips for surviving chemo. (And if you’re not reading The Best of Craigslist, you’re missing out!)

If you get squeamish from popping zits, you probably won’t like this. (On my surgery rotation, we incised and drained a gigantic abscess in this guy’s calf, and it flowed out just as well. Disgusting, but fun.)

Why I actually turned 4-year med school into 5-year med school: longer lifespan!

Star Wars as an old silent film. Awesome.

67 studies later, we still can’t find evidence that gay parents are worse than straight ones. (I just liked the article title.)

While profits are insanely up, applications for new drugs (non-”me-too” drugs) are insanely down, as Ezra reports.

The Independent Urologist gives you 5 reasons to support single-payer if you’re a solo practice doc (even as a specialist!). The Medicare reimbursement forms are no more complicated than the insurance companies, and Medicare is one of the most on-time payers there is.

In These Times examines the risks from CT scanning: CT Scans and Cancer Risk. Do we do too many CT scans? Hell yes, but I would have to argue that some of it is defensive, as Americans become less and less tolerant of physicians being human and imperfect. Some of it is also diagnostic, as in, “I have no idea what’s wrong with the patient’s abdomen, maybe it’s time for a scan.”

Link to the FDA’s radiation risk, which has a good, important quote:

A CT examination with an effective dose of 10 millisieverts (abbreviated mSv; 1 mSv = 1 mGy in the case of x rays.) may be associated with an increase in the possibility of fatal cancer of approximately 1 chance in 2000. This increase in the possibility of a fatal cancer from radiation can be compared to the natural incidence of fatal cancer in the U.S. population, about 1 chance in 5. In other words, for any one person the risk of radiation-induced cancer is much smaller than the natural risk of cancer. Nevertheless, this small increase in radiation-associated cancer risk for an individual can become a public health concern if large numbers of the population undergo increased numbers of CT screening procedures of uncertain benefit.

My emphasis. Translation: CT or not, you have a pretty good chance of dying from cancer. While a CT scan doesn’t increase your risk a whole lot, if you magnify that effect over the millions of people that get a scan every year, we’re definitely giving some people cancer they wouldn’t have otherwise.

Long Live Grand Rounds! I had no idea Grand Rounds used to be like this. Never seen one Grand Rounds in the previous format. Sad? Maybe. Will it come back? Probably not, unless someone familiar with the previous system decides to bring it back.

Free language lessons, and practice with Skype language exchange.

But Happy Christmas. A cute/funny holiday card from a hospital’s NICU.

The cutest/saddest animation ever. Happy Thanksgiving!

I know LPs can be frustrating–it took my resident and I about 15 tries to get the tap, but this is ridonkulous.

A woman wins the lottery, and uses it to pay for med school. Color me jealous. (via KevinMD)

Free videos from MIT’s web classes.

Loved these as a kid; A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

What an ass. He claimed Michael J. Fox is exaggerating his movements for a political campaign:

“He is exaggerating the effects of the disease,” Limbaugh told listeners. “He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act. . . . This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting.”

A collection of reasons people haven’t been blogging. Me? All of the above.

Phobias can certainly be real, but I’m not buying this girl on Maury Povich; she’s a) on Maury Povich and b) when she runs the cameras are already placed. Enjoy.

He’s on a roll, with Say again? and An Unusual Presentation.

(And I’m back!)

Two plastic surgeons consulted on the latest X-Men movie to help the digital editors make characters look 25 years younger. Worked for me.

This is lung cancer, folks, with subcutaneous metastases.

at SimplyHired, which is already an awesome job searching engine that searches Craigslist, Monster, Hotjobs, etc, for you. Rockin’.

Chewbacca’s blog. Incredibly stupid, but incredibly funny.

Okay, hyperbole, but this doctor saw patient after patient on a flight to Greece. What a nightmare. (via KevinMD)

by Fuzzy Zoeller. Is that even possible?

There’s an MP3 up of Matthew Holt’s talk at PARC that I went to. He’s a great speaker! It’s a good background on the US health care system and what’s wrong with it.

Wow. A baby born with three full arms. via KevinMD

Common prescription drugs crystallized. I like albuterol.

So a recent malpractice case was tossed out in court: “A woman who accused her doctor of molesting her and having his identical twin impersonate him to assault her must pay the doctor $2.8 million because she fabricated the allegations, a judge ruled.”

The accusations are strikingly similar to the plot for Dead Ringers, a really bad Jeremy Irons movie from the 80s: “The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he’s tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until an actress visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love. Will they be able to ’share’ her ?”

If the accusations are false, I wonder if the woman got the idea from the movie; if they’re true, life imitates art, no?

Wherein Maria cracks me up. Ahh, psych.

He’s gay, I mean, blind!

is a stage production of narratives written by breast cancer survivors. The producer is trying to adapt it to become a screenplay. Looks great.

Beautiful stuff. I should go estate-saling.

What is a DNR order? Do you need one?

from Bibliodyssey, a bunch of great historical medical images similar to those on my site.

Pictures. What an awesome Flash toy.

From push fluids, the good life is having two days off per week and sleeping in your own bed. I can’t wait for residency:

let me just say, that 4 weeks into my ambulatory month (i.e. no call and no weekends!) and i am totally getting used to the good life. really, anyone who has two whole days off per weekend every weekend cannot complain about work. every monday when i get back to work, i feel like i have had a mini-vacation. and i get to sleep in my own bed all of the time - no possibly-clean sheets and thin blankets of the call room. no. every night i get to cuddle inside my big bed and sleep for many uninterrupted hours. and if i over-sleep, who cares? it’s not like i have any early morning responsibilities these days.

Four countries in the entire world don’t guarantee maternity leave: Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, and, you guessed it, the US.

Deadline 5/21/06 @ 7:00pm EDT!

Never would’ve expected this next door: Drug lab may have doubled as underground hospital: in East Palo Alto during a crystal meth raid, the police discovered essentially a surgical suite in the basement, complete with IVs, surgical textbooks, scalpels, and even a joint replacement kit. They think it may have been a gang clinic so gang members didn’t have to report to an actual hospital. These guys can’t be the only ones doing this.

A BBC news program(me) accidentally confuses a Internet marketing expert with the Internet marketing expert’s cab driver, and interviews the cabbie. Read the story and then watch the video, the expression on the man’s face is absolutely, absolutely priceless.

A video of Wal-Marts since 1979–looks like a mumps outbreak.

Blogborygmi’s Post-Call Stress Syndrome is definitely real; our group tried to go get dinner together, once, and it just never happened.

How did San Francisco become so popular with gay people?

The Story of the Color Red. Weird, but lovely.

Even Fox News couldn’t find opposing EMed docs: “Doctors interviewed for this article unanimously decried the deterioration of emergency care and see a single-payer universal health plan as the answer. They point out that government programs could meet important health needs and operate with less overhead than private plans designed to make profits and satisfy stockholders.”

Will this Pope change the Church’s stance on condoms? (Please say yes.)

I Heart Guts is a cute website with stickers, bags, and t-shirts with Japanese pop art of all the major organs. Love it!

Kosmix, one of the new “health search engines,” includes grahamazon in its sources. Sweet.

Update: If you’re looking for the video, it was taken down from YouTube, but can still be found here.

He hits on all the major points, and insults the press, too. Parts one, two, and three.

I got them all right! (I’m on psych, so it’s especially fun to read Maria’s entries lately.)

is up at Health Business Blog!

I just won a $25 Visa gift card on Blingo! It’s essentially a Google search, except you win prizes by searching. Check it out and sign up as my Blingo Friend.

A new antibiotic compound has been found in wallaby milk: “Compound AGG01 was found to be effective against a relative of the hospital superbug MRSA, or golden staph, as well as ecoli, Streptococci, Salmonella, Bacillus subtilus, Pseudomonas spp, Proteus vulgaris, and Staphylococcus aureus.”

No word if it’s actually safe in humans yet.

An SF Elementary school had a contest to write speeches the students would like Bush to actually say and then had a Bush impersonator read them. The kids wrote better speeches, as far as I’m concerned.

Came across a new blog featuring old illustrations from books, similar to those found on this site, but for all discplines. Go read, for example, On the Nature of Cuba. You’ll love it.

Ahnold signed a bill into law today requiring patients who test positive for HIV to be recorded by name, instead of by anonymous identifier. I had no idea 40 other states already required this.

Ezra Klein: How Much Should Doctors Make? Great discussion. No time to read it all. I still don’t like the idea that doctors “deserve” to make a certain income. We all chose this–and knew that the training was long and hard.

Does Eating Salmon Lower the Murder Rate? I love these weird associations we find in the world.

I laughed.

Part D enrollee satisfaction: “This is called adverse selection, and is the main reason the program will not be successful over the long term. Simply put, the ones who sign up are the ones who will get more in benefits than they will pay in premiums.”

HopeLab, a medical non-profit, has developed a video game for kids with cancer, called Re-Mission. Looks like a fun game, and they’ve tried to temper the animations with educational and realistic elements. I just wonder how they deal with what happens if a child loses at the game.

is up! Best of the medical blogosphere!

The LA Times has a series on healthcare for the wounded in Iraq.

is up! All health policy, all day long!

Update: Please, everyone: this is a joke. You cannot do LASIK at home.

Even if this was a real product… I wouldn’t recommend it. Good spoof, though.

Buzz is big about the “near-universal” coverage Massachusetts bill that just passed, but as always, follow the money: Lobbyists Took In $7.5 Million on the bill. Kevin MD has a blogger roundup on the bill. PNHP’s take.

How To Not Be Totally Awkward Using a Computer During a Patient Visit.

Here is where we will be recommending things to you. There will be many different kinds of things, from films to hairstyles, all of which have been researched, tested, and submitted to a month-long stay at a resort for people who appreciate the finer things in life, before finally being voted on in a democratic manner resembling that of our forefathers. We will add new recommendations as such time allows, and there will be no accounting for personal taste.

Unconventional times? Meet unconventional measures. LA and SF are using technology and websites to fight STD spread. Frankly, I don’t care how it gets done, as long as it’s effective.

Really intense model. The joints look great.

We’ve spent $200 million for 142 clinics in Iraq, but we only have 20. It’s hard for me to understand how we are somehow able to come up with the money to build and fund Iraqi clinics, yet a bill for US community health centers and better funding probably wouldn’t even make it through committee.

If you have New England Journal access, check out these worms (enterobius) crawling through this guy’s intestines. Nasty.

Alternative-Medicine Practitioner Refuses Alternative Method Of Payment. Nice one, Onion.

Screen captures from the 60s series.

By Kevin Kelly: “Science is the way we surprise God. That’s what we’re here for. Our moral obligation is to generate possibilities, to discover the infinite ways, however complex and high-dimension, to play the infinite game. It will take all possible species of intelligence in order for the universe to understand itself. Science, in this way, is holy. It is a divine trip.” Interesting theories, including the “Zero-Author Paper,” research done solely by computers.

ARTNATOMY is Flash illustration of the muscles of the face and neck. Click on “Level 2″ to see how we make certain facial expressions. Very cool.

Robin Coombs, the doc who invented the Coombs test, died in January. Kind of late to announce it, no? (The Coombs test tells you if someone has antibodies against their red blood cells, causing them to be anemic.)

Another reason to dissuade parents from asking for antibiotics for viral infections: Does Antibiotic Exposure During Infancy Lead to Development of Asthma? Could this be the reason we’re seeing more and more asthma in pediatrics?

Boy, there sure a lot of days and months designated for some sort of health focus.

Update on the South Dakota abortion ban: The Oglala Sioux Tribe plans to open a clinic on its reservation. Touche.

Not only my favorite browser, it’s also cute and cuddly. (Fake, I know.)

Flickr pictures of Tom and preggers Katie at Yahoo.

Crraaaaap.

The Neurodiversity Weblog analyzes the scary Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, who are apparently, totally, insane.

Ezra writes about Bush slashing cancer screening programs for women.

Maria’s piece, The Drug Pushers explains the ease by which one can have the drug companies pay for everything you could need as a doctor. (Stanford is considering banning all drug rep materials; I hope it passes.)

A great list of online videos to improve your physical exam skills, from the Clinical Cases blog.

In some patients, hormones to activate clotting were more active after an 8-hour flight. Still no idea why.

A mother writes a letter to her young children to be read by them 12 years later, on the duties of a human being.

What’s grosser than gross? An STD in a stoma. (via the evil resident)

Blingo is basically Google searching with prizes. If you search using Blingo instead of Google (they’re the same search results), you can win free stuff–I just won a $10 iTunes gift card yesterday. Join now, with me as your friend, and we both win prizes when you win.

(Only downside: It won’t do the auto-Google searches, like linking to a map if you type in an address. They pay for it by displaying Google text ads on the side, just like Google does. Brilliant idea.)

An Aerial Portrait of my Windy City. Beautiful photography.

A real, live Simpsons intro with actors. Impressive detail.

In the form of petri dish growth.

By Zefrank. The guy cracks me up.

Stuck between a rock and a hard place, a South Dakota blogger is describing how laypersons can perform abortions, anticipating the state’s ban that passed through the South Dakota senate. Excerpts include “Assuming you have no autoclave,” “Please be sure to familiarize yourself with the female reproductive system prior to performing any procedure such as this,” “Antibiotics can be purchased from Mexican pharmaceutical supply houses for less than $2 per course.” I worry greatly if this text has to be used.

A really great Frontline on methamphetamine. And if you didn’t know this already, you can watch all the Frontlines of the past several years online, for free. +10 points to PBS!

Many pictures of the human body. Fantastic.

Nice advert for Berlitz.

A former dentist has been charged with stealing body parts from the dead and selling them for use in surgeries. He would take bone out, replace it with hardware PVC piping, and re-sew the bodies closed. Yuck.

Pleix films.

A new MIT study suggests that Bush’s HSA plans will actually increase the number of uninsured, because businesses will respond by dropping coverage, and about 600,000 people won’t respond by buying coverage.

A great health care policy quiz about health care in other countries is over at Signal Health blogs.

A new cancer blog to keep track of new treatments, because I sure can’t keep up. From an MD/PhD student @ Temple.

Can I specialize in weird diseases? I love this stuff.

Solving power-law social problems. I wonder how this would apply to malpractice (where very few doctors account for most of the lawsuits) or health care spending (where ~20% of patients account for ~80% of expenditures).

Wherein a doctor educates.

Homage to those old pop-up books. (Good pop-ups, not web pop-ups.)

Extolling the virtues of Google’s China search, where Tiananmen goes from this to this. Pretty damn evil. With so many people relying on Google for their information, there are major implications to a world where Google censors and picks what information is available.

I have no words. I was definintely not expecting that. (Quicktime file)

Stunning photos of China.

“Doctor, do you believe in God?” An excellent read by Orac. (But Orac, please lose the space design. Painful.)

A tilt-shift lens makes these aerial photographs of cities look like nothing more than models.

Kevin, M.D. Hosts Grand Rounds.

Okay, put a little more tactfully by Ezra Klein.

Anatomy Dissections from the University of Wisconsin. The real thing. Gross out factor 10/10. Note to self: you forget quickly what people look like on the inside.

The Slanket is a HUGE 100% polyester polar fleece blanket with oversized sleeves. They are made and tested in Maine. Great idea.

VA Care Is Rated Superior to That in Private Hospitals, reports the WP. Either it says really good things about “scary” government socialized medicine, or really bad things about our current state of health affairs. Probably both.

Good review of heart sounds, S3, and S4.

Dr. Stanley Biber performed over 4,500 gender reassignment surgeries during his career, and died earlier this week. In the words of a transgender professor: “What other treatment has a 100% success rate for its patients?”

More ways to treat HIV.

This year, 91% of the flu virus is resistant to amantadine and rimantidine, two anti-flu viral drugs. Not a huge deal; this isn’t used very often (in the outpatient setting, at least) because you have to take them within 48 hours of infection; most people don’t know it’s the flu until much later than that. And don’t even think of trying to get Tamiflu for it.

Covering is the new discrimination. Couldn’t be more true–this is exactly the feeling I get living in a “progressive,” “liberal” suburb (I wouldn’t call it discrimination, I’d call it “strongly frowned upon”):

Now a subtler form of discrimination has risen to take its place. This discrimination does not aim at groups as a whole. Rather, it aims at the subset of the group that refuses to cover, that is, to assimilate to dominant norms. And for the most part, existing civil rights laws do not protect individuals against such covering demands. The question of our time is whether we should understand this new discrimination to be a harm and, if so, whether the remedy is legal or social in nature.

I’m so guilty of covering it’s not even funny.

Great blond joke @ the Loop.

This medical blogger took a quick video of a heart and lungs from a thoracotomy in the ED. (Blood and guts warning applies.) AVI file.

Cowboys Are My Weakness, by Larry David.

A hilarious graphic about how to choose your medicine specialty from a new blog I just found. Love it.

The Karasik Conspiracy is the book that Pharma hired a ghost-writer to author about an Islamist terror plot to poison Americans who buy drugs through Canadian pharmacies.
I’m serious.

Oh crap. Coffee shortage starts in 2007. How the hell am I supposed to do residency? (via artiloop)

Why do so many people have a fear of clowns? This is known as coulrophobia.

Double Feature Finder. Never sneak into movies!

I’m allowed because I’m a blonde. (And because I know the real answer is 5.)

Tamiflu, the drug for bird flu that’s supposed to save all of our lives, isn’t working as planned in Vietnam–the virus gained resistance to it in 2/8 patients.

Ebert’s Top 10 of 2005.

Art Dorks is full of really amazing artwork. Go now!

From The Daily Rhino: Presenting Complaint - Flank Pain. I thought it was funny.

Good writeup, link says it all: Should the United States Adopt a Single-payor or a Multi-payor Universal Healthcare Model?.

RangelMD.com has the scoop on white skin as a gene mutation, and what it means for advocates of Intelligent Design. I guess that makes me a double mutant.

Turn Down Your iPod: Scientists worry that earbuds are killing teens’ hearing. From my alma mater!

I don’t know who was googling for “facemaker,” but I came across an old failed Graham project that’s at least worth a good laugh. And with that, I present… the Facemaker!

Fimoculous has collected a list of Lists of 2005 (Best of X, for example).

Concept: provide a phone line with voicemail extension to the homeless, Katrina victims, and others without phone access, to help them in finding jobs and in being contacted by potential employers. Community Voice Mail. Only costs $7 per month.

I haven’t done psych yet, so I don’t know what this would be called, maybe OCD, but this is clearly, clearly a problem when you fill your shower with boxes of Ebay crap and sleep on a couch so your bed can be used for more Ebay boxes: Crazy eBay mom (their title, not mine).

No idea if this is legit, but I don’t know why it wouldn’t be: Graffiti Found In Pompeii. People haven’t changed much: “Satura was here on September 3;” “Celadus the Thracian gladiator is the delight of all the girls;” “Phileros is a eunuch!”

Some really great wallpapers and desktop backgrounds at joejoe’s Wallpapers.

Could broadband for everyone save almost a trillion dollars from Medicare costs? One economic analysis says yes.

250,000 Bouncy Balls Dropped On an SF Hill