Rural Doctoring

The Weekly Wrap: November 7th-13th, 2008

I read a lot online, not only blogs but several regional and national newspapers.  My favorite items from the past weeks are listed below, and reveal some of my odder interests.

The Weekly Wrap: October 31st-November 6th, 2008

I know I'm not alone in being profoundly relieved at the end of the presidential campaign.  While grappling with the enormity of the democratic process, I have also been attending to other critically important tasks such as considering a format change for the Weekly Wrap.  A lot of my preoccupations involve reading beyond medical blogs, so I'm going to try adding in non-medical links just so you know what I've been reading in general.

The Weekly Wrap: October 24th-30th, 2008

There are some cool people blogging these days.  Here's a few examples:

The Weekly Wrap: October 17th-23rd, 2008

I'm having a busy week in San Francisco, attending the UCSF Care of the Hospitalized Patient conference, tackling research at the UCSF library, and running around with my nutty mother and her nutty Pekinese dog.  The Wrap is therefore on the brief side, but still finger-lickin' good:

The Weekly Wrap: October 10th-16th, 2008

I try to keep a rural filter on the Wrap, but not everything rural makes it on the list, and a lot of posts of non-rural origin do.  Truthfully, rural as a way of life has a broad range.  The true filter on this list is my own experience--fruity, funny, and frustrating as that may be--of being a rural doctor. Thus:

The Weekly Wrap: October 3rd-9th, 2008

Strangely enough, now that I'm enjoying my mini-retirement, I spend less time reading blogs than I did when I was working.  Of course, I'm tackling the Herculean task of getting my house in order, which tends to obscure all such pleasures.  What time I do find to read blog is enlightening as always.  To whit:

The Weekly Wrap: September 26th-October 2nd, 2008

Medical bloggers have been keeping me informed of new trends and interesting cases, and it has been a privilege to summarize their work in the Weekly Wrap.  However, sometimes I notice a lot of overlap between the Wrap and Grand Rounds, so I've decided to narrow the focus of the Wrap to topics of interest to rural life and rural medicine.  Such as these:

The Weekly Wrap: September 20th-26th, 2008

I have been feeling the peculiarities of living in a small town recently, so this week's Wrap focuses on rural-themed posts:

The Weekly Wrap In Brief: September 13th-18th, 2008

I have a long weekend off and I'm planning to take a brief break from blogging. Because of this, I'm posting the Wrap a few days early and only including my reading through 9/18/08, but believe me there were some plenty good posts published during that time:

The Weekly Wrap: September 6th-13th, 2008

Every week I bookmark thought-provoking and amusing blog posts. Here's the latest crop:

The Weekly Wrap: Aug 30th-Sep 5th, 2008

The Weekly Wrap is back! I haven't gotten fully up to speed on my daily blog reads yet, but there's been plenty to keep my mind busy:

No Weekly Wrap This Week...But Check Out the Arte Y Pico Awards!

I'm still recovering from link-overload after hosting Grand Rounds this week, so I'm taking another break from the Weekly Wrap. However, after being honored with an Arte y Pico award earlier this week, I'm sharing the honor with five other bloggers. Read about them in the post below.

No Weekly Wrap Today...But Don't Forget GRAND ROUNDS!

I'm not posting my Weekly Wrap today because I will be hosting Grand Rounds Volume 4, Number 49 here next week and I'm resting up in preparation. But don't forget to submit your best and brightest to me at: ruraldoctoring@gmail.com by 7pm PST Sunday, August 24th. That's tomorrow! Get busy!

The Weekly Wrap: August 9th-15th, 2008

I learn so much by reading medical blogs. I think I'm evolving into a better doctor because of what I read. One of the reasons many of us entered medicine is for the opportunity for lifetime learning. Here's how I've been improving myself this week:

The Weekly Wrap: August 2nd-8th, 2008

Some weeks the blogs I read mirror my own preoccupations, serving as a kind of virtual mood-ring if you will. This week, several posts addressing different aspects of professionalism caught my cast of mind exactly:

The Weekly Wrap: July 26th-August 1st, 2008

Let's hear it for the work of medical bloggers! Vitum Medicinius wrote a post this week on why reading medical blogs is useful. Here's a few reasons why:

The Weekly Wrap: July 19th-25th, 2008

Every week, there are so many great blogs to read I barely have time left to write. Some of my favorites this week:

The Weekly Wrap: July 11th-18th, 2008

All bloggers stand on the shoulders of giants. Here are some of the shoulders I've been climbing up lately:

The Weekly Wrap: July 5-10, 2008

Once again, the Cup of Blogging runneth over. Here were some of the posts I appreciated this week:

The Weekly Wrap: June 28-July 4th, 2008

While I've been writing narcissistic posts about why and how I blog, other bloggers have actually been keeping up with the latest in medicine:

The Weekly Wrap: June 21-27, 2008

Another great week in the medical blogosphere. Here's a few posts that lit a fire under me:

The Weekly Wrap: June 14-20, 2008

It's been an amazing week on the blogs. I marked so many posts to re-read, I could barely keep up with the new posts coming down the pipeline. Here's a few that got me thinking:

The Weekly Wrap: June 7-13, 2008

Every week, I add new medblog feeds to my reader.  There are so many interesting bloggers writing these days.  Here's a few posts that got me thinking this week:

The Weekly Wrap: May 31-June 6, 2008

Here's a few posts that got the little grey cells working this week:

The Weekly Wrap: May 24-30, 2008

Here's my weekly summary of some blog posts that got me thinking:

The Weekly Wrap: May 16-23, 2008

A few blog posts that got me thinking this week:

• Dinosaur's post about the slippery slope we encounter when we go the extra mile for a noncompliant patient. 
• Dr. Happy's to-the-point post on the complexity of hospital medicine--and why doctors are still needed in the age of the midlevel provider.
• Dragonfly's stand on empowering the helper. You go, girl!