For the coffee break
While learning ortopedic surgery (my last exam…), I’ve found several interesting links and some announcements. Prepare your warm coffee and let’s start:
- President Bush called on Congress to pass legislation to ensure the privacy of genetic testing results.
Experts say safeguarding genetic privacy would encourage millions of U.S. residents to undergo testing for cancers and other diseases that could lead to earlier detection and treatment, the Times reports.
- Lifeboat Foundation has started a blog mainly on nanotechnology, nuclear experiments and geopolitics.
- MDCalc is quick access to all those medical calculations that are too painful to memorize, and too useful to ignore.
Some examples are the calculations of anion gap, corrected QT, Framingham cardiac risk or the Glasgow coma scale.
- Just Science has posted a great challenge to all science bloggers: write posts only about science for a week (Feb 5-11). I join and we’ll see. Be ready for hardcore genetic testing-newborn screening articles on that week.
Here is the list of the challengers.
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That challenge is a neat idea; perhaps I will try it. But come on now, memorizing the formula for an anion gap is hardly painful; that’s one that physicians should probably know by heart.
OK, but what about the others?
Once for my traumatology exam, I tried to memorize the Glasgow coma scale… I wouldn’t say that I still know it perfectly.
No, you’re right; I don’t know the others offhand. (Actually, I use Framingham enough that I am starting to memorize it.)