I used to play the violin, and was a member of Boston's medical professional-based Longwood Symphony Orchestra.
So, naturally, ads like these from the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, which capture the intersection between classical music and medicine, catch my eye.
Beautiful.
(via Street Anatomy)
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From the always-excellent Street Anatomy, here are some artistic, and provocative, anti-smoking advertisements.
Good stuff from Dr. Val over at Better Health with her regularly featured medical cartoon.
It's also somewhat sobering, as I'm sure the thought has crossed the mind of more than a few doctors.
A bizarrely morbid slide show of radiology images showing various patients impaled by foreign objects.
If you need more reasons to be wary of nail guns, fishing spears, keys, or knives, look no further.
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Plenty.
In an interesting blog post over at the Health Disparities Blog, the so-called Corrupted Blood incident at the massively popular online role-playing game was chronicled.
The game designers created a virus that would infect virtual players and spread to others in the surrounding area. Eventually, this virus got out from the dungeon which was supposed to confine it, and into ...
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At what point does aesthetics trump function?
Over at Better Health, Val Jones talks about cases where land mines blow off hands, necessitating the so-called Krukenberg operation, which recreates a pincer grasp in the hands.
The result looks like this:
It's a remarkable procedure. But, as Val notes, not everyone may want this operation, as some may opt for aesthetics over ...
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Not your doctor, for obvious ethical and legal reasons, but what about your friend's physician?
Doc Gurley looks at the pertinent issues when considering dating a doctor. Including, of course, how much debt you're looking at taking on.
"Nowadays, the myth of the rich doctor has tumbled faster than a Madoff investment scheme," she writes. "More accurately, that's true if your doc is a ...
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-Eric Topol, MD, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine
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