Grand Rounds 4.31 is online

The latest edition of Grand Rounds, the weekly collection of the best medical blogging, is now online at Dr Val and the Voice of Reason.

Canadian Medicine's entry, "Putting clinical depression under the microscope and on the blogosphere," falls into a category on "health 2.0." (We were one of only three blogs to be awarded the [{] symbol by Dr Val, apparently denoting our "early bird" submissions. I appreciate the gesture, but what the heck is [{] supposed to mean?)

Also of interest (verbatim from Dr Val):

• A Canadian Medical Student and author of Vitum Medicinus tells the story of how a patient asked her doctor a question that she already knew the answer to, just to see if he was current in his knowledge of recent health news. The post is "What Trickery Is This?"

• John Crippen from NHS Blog Doctor explores the difference between a young doctor's "gallows humor" and a senior physician's deep and abiding concern for patients in this reflection on death certificates in Britain. The post is called "Ash Cash."

• Allen Roberts of GruntDoc describes how one misspoken word can result in unexpected innuendo.

• Mic Agbayani at GeekyDoc, suggests that patient privacy is violated by YouTube when a video is posted of healthcare professionals laughing during a surgical procedure to remove a foreign body from the rectum. His post is called, "Patient privacy and YouTube."

• Bob Coffield at Health Care Law Blog writes that some argue that preventing disease does not decrease health costs. Bob disagrees, but isn't sure if he can prove his case. His post: "Is prevention cheaper than treatment?"

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