http://blogs.scienceforums.net/blandrounds Medicine: serious business. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:59:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today while working a shift in the emergency room I was pimped* on "throckmorton's sign". Having never heard of it, I was told to go home and look it up. Throckmorton Sign: THE PENIS POINTS TO THE PATHOLOGY Example (courtesy http://www.radswiki.net): "The penis points to an enchondroma in a patient with Maffucci syndrome" Medicine: ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/blandrounds/2008/07/09/throckmorton-sign/ Right now I happen to be on the hospital internal medicine service, which in a nutshell means that I am assigned a handful of patients to round on each morning before the attending physician comes for the "official" rounds. What this means for me, as a medical student, is that ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/blandrounds/2008/06/23/a-day-on-the-medicine-inservice/ from xkcd.ShareThis http://blogs.scienceforums.net/blandrounds/2008/03/17/if-you-dont-read-xkcd-you-should/ I've started an "Archives" category to archive my numerous debates with creationists over the years. This particular debate started when I mentioned W.V. Quine's virtue of scientific conservatism (found in his book "The Web of Belief"). I am writing as Johnny, while my opponent, Clete, is a young earth ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/blandrounds/2008/02/22/scientific-conservatism-part-1/ It is not often I am compelled to consider arson, but the jam-packed reflexology station at the Florida State Fair came very close to producing such thoughts. At the entrance to this shrine to pseudoscience was a poster-sized version of this image: As you can see, the way to a man's ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/blandrounds/2008/02/12/gah/