Grand Rounds 4.35: Musings of a Dinosaur

This week's edition of Grand Rounds is now available at Musings of a Dinosaur. Dr Dinosaur, in Biblical prose, kindly included one of our posts:

And Sam Solomon of Canadian Medicine did vent his mighty wrath upon a recent BMJ article that said in part, "[P]eople don’t become doctors because they were destined to do so but because they weren’t good enough at anything else." And it was very good. (The blog post, that is; certainly NOT the BMJ article, which was deplorable.)

Here are some of Canadian Medicine's top picks from the batch:

• Dr Martina Scholtens, of FreshMD, on how to take a patient's sexual history, the simplest and most direct way possible.

• Dr Shock on whether vascular depression is a real disease or just another excuse to prescribe more antidepressants.

• Dr Ian Furst, of Wait Time & Delayed Care, on Web 2.0:

In short, people want you to believe that when your doctor (or primary care provider) embraces Web 2.0 (the socialization of the internet) a metamorphosis of medicine will occur. The argument goes that the internet will allow your doctor to reach more people with greater richness then ever before. Don’t believe them – it’s bullshit. [...] The pundits foresee a revolution that will never come.

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