The Obama administration strongly desires that all medical records be electronic. There’s a much-lauded app called drchrono for the iPad which can make that transition happen. Logically, the government will toss up to $US44,000 to any doctor willing to use it. More »
It’s always amazing to look back at how terribly simple things once were. These pop-up books, for example, are intricately layered to show the various organs in a human body. Doctors would use ‘em for practice surgery runs. [Laughing Squid] More »
Bupa, the health insurance company behind MBF, HBA and Mutual Community here in Australia, recently conducted a survey across 12 countries around using the net for self-diagnosis. Turns out us Aussies like to take trips to Dr. Google to find out what ails us… More »
My background is writing partially thought-out gadget blog posts, so you’ll forgive me this brief moment of juvenile amazement:Holy cow surgeons have the craziest tools! Is the SPIDER something you surgeons out there are regularly playing god with, or what? More »
That’s a fragment of a Wendy’s spork that was removed from a man’s throat last year. It is by far the least weird thing that shows up on a new, cringe-inducing list of bizarre things doctors have extracted from patients. More »
