The Friday Post #28: Economics, Wordle, Cephalopods and an Emergency Room Rap

Here’s the Friday Post #28 for Feb 28 2009.  There’s enough doom-and-gloom, and down economic news from all around the world this week to make you want to cry.  Bah! So turn the TV off. Wired reporter Felix Salmon published an article on Feb 23 2009 entitled “Recipe for Disaster: The Formula that Killed Wall [...]

Blogs I Like: Pharmamotion

A physician-blogger from Argentina recently wrote to ask me to take a look at his site, called Pharmamotion: Pharmacology & Therapeutics Resources. The purpose of his site is described as: “… to gather educational resources targeted to health professionals that are freely available on the web, for a better understanding of pharmacology. These resources include:  [...]

Instructional Technologies, Teaching & Learning in Medicine, Web 2.0: Oncology, LibGuides and Delicious

Librarians at Lyman Maynard Stowe Library purchased a subscription to a course management system called LibGuides in August 2008.  It has proven to be a good investment.  Each of the librarians or instructors on the system can share – although we are geographically distant – in building on each others’ work, much like sharing of [...]

The Friday Post #27: Shakespearean Insults, Online Mistakes, Unlucky Friday the 13th

Tradition has it that bad things might happen on Friday the 13th. So here’s the Friday (the 13th) Post #27 for Feb 13 2009: Find a variety of unusual Old English insults on the website Shakespearean Insulter, where all quotes are taken from the collected works of William Shakespeare, such as: ” Thou warped rude-growing [...]

News, Clinical Research, Educational Sites: Research Tests, Surveys or Measurements… some free, some by subscription

A frequent question at the reference desk is from nurses, physicians, epidemiologists, medical, dental or MPH students who are seeking assistance in finding clinical research instruments.  It can be a challenging and time-consuming task to find psychological profiles; while many are available at no-cost, a greater number are proprietary, copyrighted tests requiring payment to gain [...]

The Friday Post #26: Blogs List Updates, Sushi, A Song for Anesthesiologists

Here’s the Friday Post #26 for Feb 6 2009.  After updating the format of this page recently, it seemed like a good idea to update the Blogs I Like list.  Following are some of the recent additions. Blogs written by physicians, medical students or medical librarians: Three blogs – each written by physicians or residents [...]

News, Healthcare Administration: An AHA report

” Many [U.S.] hospitals find it significantly more difficult or even impossible to access tax-exempt bonds or other sources of capital.“ Excerpt from “The Capital Crisis: Impact on Hospitals” – Courtesy of the American Hospital Association – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 Founded in 1898, the American Hospital Association (AHA) is a not-for-profit voluntary [...]