WSJ Video: The Skinny on Stents

Christopher White, chief of cardiology at New Orleans’s Ochsner Clinic talks about the present and future of the cardiac stents.

Link via WSJ Health Blog.

What to do if you lose a guide wire during central line placement?

I was discussing central line placement complications with medical students a few days ago. Some of them are illustrated with horrifying details in the NEJM.

"What should you do if you lose a guide wire during central line placement?", I asked.

"We could use a strong magnet to pull it out", one of the students suggested.

Well, not really.

You should call interventional radiology immediately and the radiologist will extract the wire under fluoroscopic guidance by using another wire to hook up and pull out the lost one.

A few examples of different approaches to extract lost guide wires are listed in the British Journal of Anaesthesia.

We have published free illustrated step-by-step procedure guides to central placement with and without ultrasound. The guides are available as web pages and Windows Mobile/Palm downloads.

References:
Central Line Placement: A Step-by-Step Procedure Guide with Photos
Loss of the guide wire: mishap or blunder? British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2002, Vol. 88, No. 1 144-146.
Lost guide wire during central venous cannulation and its surgical retrieval. Kumar S, Eapen S, Vaid VN, Bhagwat AR. Indian J Surg 2006;68:33-34.
Image source: Wikipedia, public domain.

Further reading:
Lost Guide Wire. Radiology Picture of the Day.
A Big Time Mistake. Ten out of Ten: My experiences as an ER doc, 02/2008.

Improper placement of the central venous catheter - case one and case two from the Annals of Emergency Medicine

Updated: 02/09/2010

Dr. Charles' Blog Goes on Hiatus with Memorable Final Thoughts

I have enjoyed reading The Examining Room of Dr. Charles for years. He writes one of the best literary sites in the medical blogosphere and not surprisingly is the most famous Dr. Charles according to Google. Dr. Charles started his blog on Blogger.com, published a book and moved his site to Science Blogs about a year ago. Since then, his style of writing has been somewhat different and focused more on current events rather than what I think he does best -- telling compelling (if fictional) patient stories. I will stay subscribed to the feed in case he decides to bring his blog back online one day. In the meantime, somebody else took over his old blogspot URL which is sad since the blog archives seem to be lost.

Here is Dr. Charles himself:

"And If I were to make a few final requests they might be the following. Watch the swallows flying before sunset. Save the planet. Cook a meal with someone you love, and drink too much wine while you're doing it. Please don't vote for another Bush or Edwards. Support health care courts and malpractice reform. Bring your doctor a tomato from your garden, assuming you like him. Cancel you cable, buy a hammock, and get a library card. Use more basil. Beware of people selling unproven cures. Lie on your back and watch for shooting stars. Go to the beach in the off-season. Fight for justice. Fight for truth. Never take for granted the blessings of good health. Help those who are sick. And remember that you don't need things to make you happy, and that life is a bittersweet flash of a firefly at night."

Image source: Tirau Sunset, Essjay NZ, a Creative Commons license.

Updated 07/08/2009:

After a two year hiatus, the talented medical blogger Dr. Charles is back, "reopening the examining room" http://bit.ly/igKWW

Funny Ads: "Hello, I'm a Mac... And, I'm a PC"

A 7-minute collection of 15 short video ads showing the cool Apple Mac Guy vs. the loved-by-everybody PC Guy.

Update 02/04/2008: The compilation video was deleted but the individual clips are still available on iTube.

Related:
Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC? NYTimes, 02/2008.

Updated: 02/04/2008

¡Sí, Se Puede!

From the defunct Babes and Books blog where a bunch of friends challenged each other to read twenty books in one summer:

I finished Sisterhood Interrupted Friday morning and Borderlands last night before I went to sleep. Both thumbs up books.

Sisterhood Interrupted was way better than I thought it would be. As someone who has 2 minor degrees in women’s studies, I’ve read a lot of feminist history, especially second wave history. That’s also due to my obsession with the 60s and early 70s. I really didn’t think I’d learn too much new in it and while the book is NOT a history book, I did learn some new tidbits. Seigel does an excellent job at framing the intragenerational fighting during the second wave (Betty Friedan-ists vs. radical feminists) and the third wave (post-feminists vs. third wavers) AND the intergenerational fighting between second and third wavers. I went way into this with Cinnamon and wish I had recorded it because now I know I can’t do it justice again, but essentially I believe this is Seigel’s love letter to feminism as well as a plead for all of us to come together and finish the revolution. In the introduction, she asks, “How do younger women reconcile the gap between the tremendous opportunities they’ve been given and the inequalities that persist?” And that is such a fabu question to ask. I’ve been asked that plenty of times by women my age who say that we have it so good here. I usually snap back that it’s just not good enough and then rattle off a litany of wrongs in this country.

Borderlands just blew me out of the water.

Anzaldua discusses her personal journey thru what she calls the Borderlands as a Chicana who lives in a racist world and was raised to survive and work in this racist world. Far more radical than I am, Anzaldua pushed me to reconsider my own beliefs and assumptions. She also challenges us of Latina/o heritage to reclaim as much of our heritage as possible.The book also contains her poetry which I have not read yet. She writes in three languages, Spanish, English, and Spanglish, which made it difficult for me to read the book. That on top of my inability to read poetry the way it should be read scares me to dive into her poetry at this point.

I remember during graduate school a discussion about Chicana feminism and saying that I didn’t think I was there yet. A Chicana in the room waved her hand and said, “Yes, you are! Come on over!” In reality, I wasn’t. But I do think I am. There are just a few things I need to get settled in my head first. Then again, the one question I know will be the hardest to resolve is the most important. How can I balance being Chicana (a politically aware Latina invested in her heritage) and a player within the current economic and social system? There just seems to be a bit of isolationism in recovering my heritage.

Thankfully next up is So Far From God by Ana Castillo. Maybe diving into some good Latina fiction will help me answer some questions. Also on my plate will be Strange Piece of Paradise for my book club.

Medicine 2.0 -- A Blog Carnival About Web 2.0 and Medicine

Medicine 2.0 is a weekly blog carnival which collects the most interesting posts about Web 2.0 and Medicine.

A blog carnival is a blog event similar to a magazine dedicated to a particular topic. It is published on a regular schedule, often weekly or monthly. 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).



Video: Using the Web 2.0 write up in Wikipedia this video is to help teach educators about Web 2.0 tools, by JuTechTips.

Image source: ScienceRoll.com, a Creative Commons license.

Confessions of a Rock Star and DVT Victim plus Ten Tips for Survival

Ian Anderson, the front man of the famous British rock group Jethro Tull shares his experience of developing DVT while travelling between 3 continents in 2001:

Confessions of a DVT Victim and Ten Tips for Survival

"But something didn't feel right with the leg - a deeper and more sinister feeling than just the dodgy knee - so, after a brief discussion with a worried hotel doctor, I took myself off to a Sydney hospital and insisted on an ultrasound scan to determine that, hopefully, no clot was present. Alas, the scan showed a huge and life-threatening clot stretching from just above the ankle to the upper thigh, just below the groin."

A new study by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that the risk of developing deep vein thrombosis doubles after traveling for just four hours.

Comments from Twitter:

@AllergyNet (Dr John Weiner): Blood clots x3 higher on long-distance flights than the general population http://goo.gl/Tk45Z - Wear those stockings to Australia! Would you believe, I've got tickets to see JT in Melbourne in April, he prob should have a shot of anticoagulant plus the stocking!

References:
Thrombosis risks double after 4-hour travel: study. Reuters, 06/2007.
Image source: JethroTull.com
More information: Ian Anderson Interview, 2003 on YouTube.

Secret to Long Life: Take It Slow, Don’t Have Many Kids and Enjoy Cold Water (If You Are a Whale)

211 and 115-year-old whales?

According to the NYTimes, the secret to long life is to "Take It Slow, Don’t Have Many Kids and Enjoy Cold Water", that is if you are a whale:

"Eskimo hunters killed a bowhead whale off the coast of Alaska last month and began to chainsaw their way into its blubber. They stopped when the saw hit the tip of an old harpoon lodged deep inside the whale. Historians identified it last week as part of a bomb lance, a harpoon manufactured for only a few years in the late 1800s in New Bedford, Mass. Whalers probably fired it at the bowhead around 1890, when the whale was probably a teenager, and it carried the harpoon for the next 115 years before finally being killed by a modern one."

References:
Take It Slow, Don’t Have Many Kids and Enjoy Cold Water. NYTimes, 06/2007.
Image source: Wikipedia, public domain.

Share iGoogle Tabs with Medical Journals, Podcasts and Gadgets

The iGoogle homepage added the ability to share tabs via email. These are several of my tabs which you can add to your iGoogle personalized page instantly:

Medical Journals

Medical Podcasts

Updates in Hospital Medicine


Medical Journals tab: A screenshot of iGoogle with RSS feeds from the major medical journals

If you have a useful tab from iGoogle and you want to share it, choose "Share this tab" option in the drop down menu next to the its name and enter the recipient's email. When one receives the shared tab, he/she gets the choice to pick and choose from the RSS subscriptions/gadgets before they are added to iGoogle homepage.

Overall, this is an excellent addition which shows the strong focus of Google on online collaboration. Similar functionality is already well integrated in other Google services such as Docs & Spreadsheets.


How to use iGoogle

References:
Make Your Own "Medical Journal" with Google Personalized Page
Share your tabs and gadgets with friends. Lifehacker.com, 6/2007.
Share your Google IG Tabs with Others. Cybernet, 6/2007.
Show Us Your iGoogle. Lifehacker.com, 6/2007.
Waking Up Costs shares his iGoogle page with anesthesiology-specific widgets (only 3).
Backup Your iGoogle Page. Google Operating System, 04/2008.
iGoogle, a More Profitable Google Homepage. Google Operating System, 05/2008.

Updated: 04/10/2008

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin

The 80-page "The Dip" is a really short business book, with a succinct message: "Quit the wrong stuff. Stick with the right stuff. Have the guts to do one or the other." According to USA Today, "the legendary football coach Vince Lombardi was wrong when he said, "Quitters never win and winners never quit." In Godin's view, "Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time."

Seth Godin gives at least one wrong example though: ".... if you took organic chemistry, a killer class, in college, you've experienced the dip. Academia doesn't want too many unmotivated people to attempt medical school, so they set up a screen, he explains."

Actually, you need organic chemistry in order to understand biochemistry, physiology and pharmacology, which are studied later, not because somebody set up an artificial screen.

References:
Review: Better know how to handle 'The Dip'. Kerry Hannon, USA TODAY, 6/2007.
Image source: Amazon.com.

Web 2.0 in Medicine Presentations by a University of Michigan Librarian

Using RSS Personally and Professionally


Staying Current with Science Blogs & Wikis

The author of both presentations is Patricia Anderson. She is a Head Librarian for the Dentistry Library of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and has collected more Web 2.0 presentations on SlideShare.

Link via David Rothman.

Further reading:
Best Web Feeds Reader for Medical and General Information
RSS in Plain English -- The Best Video Explanation in 3 Minutes
PubMed RSS feeds are now live
Get RSS Feeds for Any Medical Journal from Pubmed
Collaborative Presentation on Web 2.0. Link via Go2Web2.
Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English (Presentations). Digital Inspiration, 2009.

Updated: 06/02/2009

Diabulimia: Skipping Insulin to Slim Down

According to CNN:

"Like many teenage girls, Lee Ann Thill was obsessed with her appearance. Then one day at a camp for diabetic teens, she heard counselors chew out two girls for practicing “diabulimia” — not taking their insulin so they could lose weight, one of the consequences of uncontrolled diabetes..."

I learned about 2 new diseases this month: first, wiitis, and now, diabulimia.

References:
‘Diabulimics’ skipping insulin to slim down. MSNBC, 06/2007.
Diabetics risk health to feed obsession with thinness. CNN, 06/2007.
CNN Video: Skipping insulin to stay thin, 08/2007.
Image source: Wikipedia, public domain.

Updated: 08/17/2007

Interesting Blog Posts from GruntDoc

GruntDoc, a blog by an ER physician in Texas, has just completed its redesign and if you read it via RSS, it is worth checking out the cool drop-down menus in the sidebar. He keeps records of notable medical blogs which have stopped publishing in the section Dead Blogs. These are 2 recent blog posts by GruntDoc:

Beginning Year #5 …at the real job

Wearing scrubs out of the hospital

Image source: GruntDoc, a Creative Commons License.

Britain's Got Talent Video: Expect the Unexpected

See how amazed Simon Cowell and the other judges are when this mobile phone salesman from Wales starts to sing.

MSSP Nexus Blog links to the finale (yes, he won!)

Further reading:
Paul Potts. Britain's Got Talent, ITV.
Paul Potts. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This is my lifelong dream, says the singing salesman. The Guardian, 06/2007.

A Collection of Articles about Web 2.0 Tools in Medicine

Journals

GoldMiner: a radiology image search engine. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2007 Jun;188(6):1475-8. Kahn CE, Thao C. PMID: 17515364.
Link via DavidRothman.net.

The Journal Club Blog: An Accessible, Searchable Reference to Enhance Evidence-Based Medical Training. Acad Emerg Med Volume 14, 5 Supplement 1 218. Nicholas Genes and Lars K. Beattie.

Mainstream Media

The International Medical News Group of journals has written an article on medical blogging. Link via Kevin, M.D.

Blogs

10 Tips for How to Use Web 2.0 in Medicine. ScienceRoll.com, 2007.

Patient Education Videos by Medical Experts on VideoJug

VideoJug is a repository how-to and ask-the-expert videos with the tag line "Life Explained. On Film." The health section consists of (mostly) patient education videos by medical experts. The videos are generally of high-quality and professionally made. An example is shown below:


VideoJug: Common Allergies

Link via AllergyNotes.

Medieval Helpdesk Solves Problems With New Technology

This funny Norwegian video shows how a Medieval helpdesk solved usability problems with the cutting edge technology at the time... the book. The official version of the video uploaded by the Norwegian Broadcasting company (NRK) can also be found on YouTube.



For all of us who have used modern-day IT helpdesks or have helped others with technical problems -- it is comforting to see how few things have changed over the ages... If you still have the courage to try something new, check out the top 10 tips on using Web 2.0 in Medicine collected by ScienceRoll.

References:
10 Tips for How to Use Web 2.0 in Medicine. ScienceRoll.com.
Link via Medical Education Blog.

544 Histopathology Videos on YouTube

A pathologist by the screen name of WashingtonDeceit has uploaded 544 histopathology videos since he joined YouTube on February 03, 2007. The videos last between 2 and 5 minutes and are professionally made and narrated. I am not an expert in the field but this looks like a useful resource to me.

We are planning to ask the nephrology fellows at the Cleveland Clinic what they think about the renal histopathology videos via a web-based survey (SurveyMonkey.com).

This is one example of the videos:


Histopathology Kidney -- Interstitial nephritis

The author of the videos has agreed to have them embedded in AskDrWiki.

Further reading:
YouTube for Your Business. PC World, 06/2007.
Video tutorial: How to get yourself on YouTube, for business or pleasure. ComputerWorld, 06/2007.
Anatomy Dissections Videos. Department of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin.
BioMed Central's You Tube channel: videos from BioMed Central's authors and editors, 09/2007.
How to: Get Exactly What You Want From YouTube via RSS. DavidRothman.net.
Click to play: YouTube and similar sites have more doctors getting ready for their close-ups. AMNews, 01/2008.
YouTube as a Source of Health Misinformation. Highlight HEALTH 2.0, 02/2008.
YouTube as a source of information on immunization: a content analysis. Keelan et al. JAMA. 2007 Dec 5;298(21):2482-4.

Updated: 02/06/2008

Digital Fingerprints Remain Forever?

These public service ad videos warn of the risks of posting online. Careless things can came back to haunt you -- Think Before You Post:





References:
Make Yourself Google-able
Link via Google Blogoscoped.

Paramedics Decision: “Scoop and Run” or “Stay and Play”?

NHS Blog Doctor discusses pros and cons of both approaches in the light of a new documentary about Princess Diana and his own experience as a GP.

Image source: Wikipedia, public domain.

A New Blog Carnival About Web 2.0 and Medicine

A blog carnival is a blog event similar to a magazine dedicated to a particular topic. It is published on a regular schedule, often weekly or monthly. 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).

ScienceRoll is staring a new blog carnival about Web 2.0 and medicine: Medicine 2.0. Bertalan Meskó, who is the author of ScienceRoll, certainly knows a thing or two about using new technologies for medical education -- he is one of the administrators of the Medicine Portal of Wikipedia and has been interviewed for publications in Nature Medicine and Cell.

The carnival will be posted on Sundays and you are invited to submit your blog articles about Web 2.0 and medicine. Since I often write on related subjects, I am planning to be a participant and I think Joshua Schwimmer of Tech Medicine may also be interested.

ScienceRoll has an interesting widget in the sidebar which features favorite videos. YouTube will be used more and more in the future for medical education and Bertalan's selection offers a sample of videos focused on medical genetics. His video widget is powered by VodPod.

References:
How to Use Web 2.0 in Medicine?
Nursing Education 2.0 via YouTube
Web 2.0 in Medicine Presentations at Research ShowCASE in Cleveland
Web 2.0 in Medicine Presentations by a University of Michigan Librarian
Image source: ScienceRoll, a Creative Commons License.

Updated: 06/18/2007

Bioethics Discussion Blog: Why People "Hate Doctors"

Maurice Bernstein of Bioethics Discussion Blog has written an interesting post about search engine queries and hate:

"A visitor came today to my blog from Google with the search words “I hate doctors”. So I went back to Google today and entered the words "I hate..." and finished the expression with "doctors" and found there were 18,300 sites using those words. Then I replaced "doctors" with "nurses" and then a whole bunch of other jobs and below is the results I obtained:

I HATE...
Doctors 18,300
Nurses 659
Lawyers 10,100
Politicians 994
......................."

Read the 84 comments (and counting) on Dr. Bernstein's previous post to see why people may feel that way.

References:
"I Hate Doctors and..." A Brief Study on Google Search. Bioethics Discussion Blog.

Sounds of Nature: Audio Layers from Around the World Added to Google Maps and Earth

Click on the map below to hear it:

WildSanctuary.com has an audio layer for Google Maps and Earth with sounds collected from all over the world. You can play them right in the browser by choosing Google Maps at the front page.

According to Google Operating System:

"You can hear the sounds of the Kenyan savannah, a sudden rain in the forest, a mysterious spring chorus of loons and peepers, the bells of Notre Dame de Paris. My favorite is a soundscape from Hawaii, "an aural voyage beginning at a beach along the Maui coast, and descending below the surface into the depths of the sea, before emerging to the shore, once again. The sea pulsates with biological sound."

References:
Sounds in Google Earth. Google Operating System.
Audio Layer Added To Google Earth AND Google Maps. InsideGoogle.
Map via Google Operating System, a Creative Commons License.

Witness What King James of Basketball Can Do

Cleveland is famous for several things -- among them are Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University, and of course, the Cavaliers basketball team with LeBron James -- see for yourself why:



LeBron James scores 29 of the last 30 points for the Cavs in their Game 5 win over the Pistons. Author: NBA

This video shows the new YouTube player with embedded related videos. Webmasters and blog owners may not like the idea of showing "related" videos on their web sites without any editorial control from them. YouTube folks have thought about it and there is a way to show only the intended video and nothing else: you can modify the video URL by attaching a rel=0 parameter to the video. i.e. http://www.youtube.com/v/&rel=0

Update 06/08/2007:
YouTube listened to user feedback and rolled back some annoying features of the new interface (via Google Operating System).

References:
New! Related Videos Appearing on Embeds. YouTube Blog.
New YouTube Interface for Embedded Videos. Google Blogoscoped, 2007.

Medical Encyclopedia AskDrWiki Expands Collection of Videos and Images

AskDrWiki is a collaborative encyclopedia started by cardiology fellows at Cleveland Clinic which is expanding rapidly its scope of high quality free content. The project received a lot of coverage from both professional and mainstream media which had the desired effect of bringing more contributors. A wiki is only as good as its contributors and there is definitely a strength in numbers. In addition, the AskDrWiki founders have introduced a rigorous screening process to ensure that only qualified medical professionals can add and edit articles. My application was accepted and I am currently a member of the Editorial Board.

In the recent months, AskDrWiki has expanded its collection of free medical videos and images:

- Echocardiograms - 177
- Coronary Angiograms - 145
- Peripheral Angiograms - 26
- EKGs - 76

Physicians in training interested in cardiology may find the step-by-step video tutorials of Coronary Angiography and Ventriculography especially valuable.

In summary, AskDrWiki seems to be an exciting medical education project which brings good quality content online (for free) and I am happy to be a small part of it.

Ken Civello, Brian Jefferson and I have presented abstracts about using the wiki for different aspects of medical education at several local, national and international scientific meetings where the posters brought a lot of interest and lively discussion.

Acute Wiiitis Reported in NEJM

The preeminent medical journal NEJM published a case report by a resident physician who developed acute tendonitis due to playing too much with the new Nintendo video game console called Wii (pronounced "wee").

According to CNN:
"When Dr. Julio Bonis awoke one Sunday morning with a sore shoulder, he could not figure out what he had done. It felt like a sports injury, but he had been a bit of a couch potato lately. Then he remembered his new Wii..."

Wii remote (nicknamed "Wiimote") is a motion-sensitive controller and allows gamers to direct the on-screen video game by swinging it like a tennis racket. And this is how one gets wiiitis. Pure logic it is not. The Latin names of inflammatory conditions are made from the name of the affected organ and the suffix "-itis", for example tendonitis -- tendon inflammation, dermatitis -- skin (derma) inflammation. No matter how popular it is, Wii is not part of the human body (yet), and therefore creating names such as "nintendonitis" or "wiitis" should probably be avoided.

After BMJ published a study on didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnea, it seems like few things can surprise the readers of medical journals anymore. Life is truly stranger than fiction.


A didgeridoo. Click to hear the sound it makes.

Joshua Schwimmer of KidneyNotes maintains a collection of hilarious journal articles.

References:
Acute Wiiitis. NEJM, Volume 356:2431-2432, June 7, 2007.
If it's not tennis elbow, it may be 'Wiiitis'. CNN, 2007.
Image sources: Wikipedia, Enrique Dans, a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License; Wikipedia, a GNU Free Documentation License.

Related:
Is the Superbowl Hazardous to Your Health? Once again, the New England Journal of Medicine has sunk to new lows in the interest of increasing its impact factor. Dr. Wes, 01/2008.

Updated: 01/31/2008

Journal of Thoracic Imaging Features Sumer's Radiology Blog

The Journal of Thoracic Imaging published a review on using blogs for radiology education. Summer Sethi of Sumer's Radiology Site is the author of the article:

Blog/Web Log-A New Easy and Interactive Website Building Tool for a Non-net Savvy Radiologist. Sethi, Sumer K. Journal of Thoracic Imaging. 22(2):115-119, May 2007.

"The success of this project can be measured by the fact that in the last full year of "rad-blogging," more than 30,000 visitors came to the site from all over the world."

Summer is also the founder and frequent host of the monthly Radiology Grand Rounds.

Our own projects, ClinicalCases.org and the blog, have had more than 500,000 visitors and 1,500,000 page views since 2005.

References:
One Million Page Views. Clinical Cases and Images - Blog, 2006.
Image source: Wikipedia, public domain.

A Presentation on Web 2.0 in Health Care by John Sharp

John Sharp's name suits him. He has a sharp intellect and an ability to see beyond the obvious in the crowded fields of Web 2.0 companies and medical informatics. His presentation on Web 2.0 in medicine is definitely worth-reading and much better than my own effort to review this rapidly changing subject in 2005 and 2006.

The talk was presented at the conference of Northern Ohio Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society in Cleveland and the PDF is available for download here:

Web 2.0: Beyond Open Source in Health Care ( 3.4 MB PDF)

John lists several medical blogs as examples of Web 2.0, including Kevin, M.D. (of course), Running a Hospital and Clinical Cases and Images - Blog.

He also mentions Second Life which may prove to be the next interesting thing for the tech-savvy health workers to explore after they master blogs, RSS, wikis and podcasts. I have my own theory about the 6 axes of medical education in Web 2.0 style:

1. Web feeds (RSS)
2. Podcasts
3. Blogs
4. Wikis
5. Custom search engines
6. Second Life virtual world

Robert Scoble links to a Social Media Starfish created by Darren Barefoot (a Creative Commons license).

References:
My Presentation on Web 2.0 in Healthcare to the Northern Ohio HIMSS. eHealth, John Sharp.
Medicine in Second Life. ScienceRoll.
How to Use Web 2.0 in Medicine?
10 Tips for How to Use Web 2.0 in Medicine. ScienceRoll.com, 2007.
Top 10: Virtual Medical Sites in Second Life! ScienceRoll.com, 06/2007.
Web 2.0 in Medicine Presentations by a University of Michigan Librarian
Image source: JohnSharp.com


My presentation on Web 2.0 in Medicine from December 2006.

Further reading:

Collaborative Presentation on Web 2.0. Link via Go2Web2.
Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English (Presentations). Digital Inspiration, 2009.
Social media in medical education - Grand Rounds presentation by IUH Med/Peds residency program director http://goo.gl/Zw3lK

Another Milestone: One and a Half Million Page Views for Clinical Cases and Images

I never expected this little project, which I started as a chief resident at Case Western Reserve University/St Vincent, to become so popular. Two years and 1.5 million page views later, I want to thank all readers for visiting ClinicalCases.org and CasesBlog.

At the rate of 100,000 page views per month, we will likely reach the nice round number of 2 million by the end of the year. Twenty-two medical schools link to the project but most of the visitors come from Google which ranks the the websites high for many clinical queries, including the number one and two search results for "clinical cases." CasesBlog and ClinicalCases.org have Google a page rank of 6 and 5 respectively. To put this in perspective, the official website of the Cleveland Clinic has a page rank of 7.

I hope our readers find the website useful. We have put a lot of effort and late-night work hours in an attempt to create a good quality content and share experiences which we regard as valuable. Personally, I find creating and maintaining the website gratifying. It feels like you have written a book and people read 3,000 pages of it, every day. Thank you for your interest in this project and I hope you find it useful for your medical education.

References:
One Million Page Views. CasesBlog, 2006.
Medical Schools Which Link to Our Project Clinical Cases and Images

Video: Highlights of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Interview

Jobs summarized the relationship between himself and Gates, quoting the Beatles: “You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.”

See the full set of videos on D5 All Things Digital.

Related:

“And one more thing” about Steve Jobs’ battle with cancer - Science-Based Medicine, 2011.

Nursing Education 2.0 via YouTube

Nursing Education 2.0: YouTube
Diane J. Skiba, Nursing Education Perspectives: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 100–102.

I found this article in the bimonthly Nursing Education Perspectives via my SiteMeter referral tracker. It mentioned the post Echocardiograms and Cases on You Tube.

The collaborative medical encyclopedia AskDrWiki has used YouTube/Google Video extensively to upload more than 140 coronary angiogram videos. All are free to watch.

An abstract about the experience of AskDrWiki founders with using YouTube for cardiology education will be presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) in Cleveland, Ohio in July. In total, we submitted 6 abstracts focused on using new technologies (Web 2.0 and other tools) in medical education. All of them were accepted and will be published in the The Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (JIAMSE).

Further reading:
YouTube for Your Business. PC World, 06/2007.
Video tutorial: How to get yourself on YouTube, for business or pleasure. ComputerWorld, 06/2007.
BioMed Central's You Tube channel: videos from BioMed Central's authors and editors, 09/2007.
Negative Immunization Videos Posted on YouTube May Contradict Facts, Experts Warn. WebMD Medical News, 12/2007.
YouTube as a Source of Information on Immunization: A Content Analysis. JAMA, 12/2007.
Click to play: YouTube and similar sites have more doctors getting ready for their close-ups. AMNews, 01/2008.

Related:
YouTube Feeds. Google Operating System, 01/2008.
YouTube as a Source of Health Misinformation. Highlight HEALTH 2.0, 02/2008.

YouTube as a source of information on immunization: a content analysis. Keelan et al. JAMA. 2007 Dec 5;298(21):2482-4.