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From Sun Avoidance Awareness to Psychotic Narrative Medicine

This week’s medical blogwatch…

Poking fun at a reminder to be aware of the sun next week from the Canadian Dermatology Association. I think it would be more effective to promote sunscreen usage as a way to protect your tattoos.

Using computers and sending snail mail to patients in an attempt to improve prevention services results. Why not use email to send reminders to the patients? That would cut costs and save trees.

About banning handguns in Canada. We should also ban other killers of Canadians -cigarettes, potato chips and poutine.

Narrative medicine and paranoid psychosis. I think ‘narrative medicine’ is an oxymoron just like ‘MacFilet Mignon’.

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From Burnout to Adventure

This week’s medical blogwatch…
A Resident’s Life

I am so tired of continually feeling beat down. I am so tired of feeling depressed. I am tired of crying. I am tired of worrying. I am tired of feeling that no matter what I do I will only disappoint myself and everyone around me.

Read The Lazy Person’s Guide To Success. How to Get What You Want without Killing Yourself for It – by Ernie J. Zelinski

Canadian Medicine about an article in the British Medical Journal.

“People don’t become doctors because they were destined to do so but because they weren’t good enough at anything else”

I don’t agree. I could have been a chartered accountant.

Plain Brown Wrapper

An Edmonton urologist has slapped RateMDs with a $12M lawsuit.

That will be his 15 minutes of fame.

Adventures In Medicine

Dr. H and I getting ready to go into a cave.

Grand Rounds 4:34

This weeks best of the medical blogosphere is at the Health Business Blog.

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