Blogs and Podcasts I like

I have a new blog, started this past Friday night with a group of like minded fitness enthusiasts It is www.fitnessrulesus.blogspot.com. We met at a series of exercise classes led by a fantastic young lady, who is a PhD at a NJ pharmaceutical( for the rest of the month, then she is "job hunting")

In the enthusiasm of creating this new blog, I thought I would make note of my own blog and podcast interests. For this post I will cover only the medical links.

Medical blogs and podcasts:

http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/podcasts-from-conferences-of-university.html has a superb list of blogs and podcasts for all levels of medical personnel. I have found the Internal medicine lectures and grand rounds to be excellent accompaniment to my fitness efforts. What I find particularly worthy is the availability of CME for those who need it. This gives a reasonable level of rigor and intellectual integrity. Also, medical lectures must cover the changes in the literature and best practice changes as they are locally practiced. The reasons are illuminating as well as practical.

Anything with Mark Crislip, an Infectious Diseases MD in Seattle- http://www.pusware.com/ He does an Infectious Diseases literature review at pusware.com and a review of alternative medicines at Quackcast. His Infectious Diseases blog is http://pusware.com/rdct/

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/ is what it says. It is 35 years too late. Better late than never. Maybe this generation of physicians will have more sense to use these facts well than previous practitioners.

http://edwinleap.com/blog/ is the careful, thoughtful musings of an emergency room physician.

http://www.wellsphere.com/communities is a general public effort to encourage healthy behaviors.

An earlier site I thought had promise was http://www.realage.com/default.aspx This website has a number of self administered quizes for people to help determine how to improve the healthy aspect of their behavior. I got fed up with the continual email notices.

http://www.medpod101.com/ is an extensive set of medical case skits. The cast of characters has decent amusement value as well as enough story to help remember the medical points one is supposed to be learning.

The Albany Medical Center Emergency Medicine lecture Series http://ems.aanet.org/ems1.shtml is often riveting without any theatrics. My personal favorite was a heartwrenching retelling of the series of events that took place in the Tulane Medical Center Emergency Room in the days before, during and right after hurricane Katrina.