Grand Rounds 4.22: The Future of Medicine

The latest edition of Grand Rounds is online now at ScienceRoll.

Canadian Medicine appears not once but twice, for "Why does the media muck up health coverage?" and "Manitoba judge disagrees with MDs in 'Canada's Terry Schiavo' case."

Make sure you also check out the following posts -- my picks for the top Grand Rounds entries:

• A South African general surgeon at Other Things Amanzi recounts two horrifying incidents in which parents of severely injured children under his care refused treatments for religious reasons.
• The transcript of a speech delivered by a Canadian medical student, who blogs as Vitum Medicinus, to the families of people who had donated their bodies to medical education. ("I don't get the chance to thank the people our cadavers once were, and sometimes I wish I could.")
• A new study to be published in the March issue of Addictive Behaviors found that among Brazilian med students, "the most frequently used substances [by men] were alcohol (80.5%), cannabis (25.3%), solvents (25.2%), and tobacco (25.2%), whereas among female students the most frequently used drugs were alcohol (72.6%), tobacco (14.6%), solvents (10.5%), and tranquillizers (7.5%)." Blogged about by David Bradely at the Sciencebase science blog.
  
• Barbara Kivowitz, from In Sickness and In Health, writes about research that found testicular and cervical cancer patients have an increased rate of divorce.
• An interview with Dr Nick Genes, the man behind Grand Rounds, from But You Don't Look Sick.
• "Abel Pharmboy" at Terry Sigillata wrote about getting his vasectomy... while it was actually happening, using his handheld computer. (Highly recommended -- it's very funny, surprisingly enough.)
  

UPDATE, February 27: I forgot to mention that there's a new Pre-Rounds interview with ScienceRoll editor Bertalan Mesko, conducted by Dr Nick Genes, online at Medscape. (Subscription required.)


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