November 2011
3 posts
September 2011
8 posts
Surgichart: a surgical case log app →
My friend and Senior Editor at iMedical Apps, Felasfa Wodajo is admittedly more organized than I am. He already has an electronic database of all of his surgical cases. Mine is on paper. Felasfa built his using Filemaker. I, on the other hand, have been meaning to go electronic for a while.
To be honest though, I have not been looking forward to building a database on my own. Recently, however, I...
Looking for Writers →
if anyone out there has a medical background of any kind (you do not have to be an MD. nurses, therapists, medical techs etc are welcome), we are looking for more reviewers for iMedical Apps.
Benefits:
small compensation: ($25) per post
audience: the site had 4000,000 hits last month
ability to test new apps and get free promotional codes
fun
you’ll know all of the coolest apps before...
The Knee Unhinged →
I started writing for iMedicalApps.com, a site that has quickly become the number one site for independent reviews of medical mobile apps. The writers are all med students and doctors and we don’t take money from app developers. My business partner and friend Felasfa Wodajo got me into it. My first post is about an app called Knee Decide that helps doctors educate patients about knee...
August 2011
2 posts
America's 10 Commandments: by James Altucher →
The American Religion is a fickle and false religion. Used to replace the ideologies we (a country of immigrants) escaped from with tenets that don’t withstand the test of time. With random high priests lurking all over the Internet, ready to pounce. Below are some of the tenets of the American Religion. If you think there are more, list them in the comments.
July 2011
2 posts
50 Best Health Quotes →
Some good ones:
1. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man health, wealthy and wise. Ben Franklin
6. Those who think they have no time for exercise, will sooner or later have to find time for illness. Edward Stanley
10. Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. Doug Larson
15. Time and health are two precious assets that we do not...
June 2011
1 post
Mistakes →
There are only two classes of people who never make mistakes—they are the dead and the unborn. Mistakes are the inevitable accompaniment of the greatest gift given to man—individual freedom of action. If he were only a pawn in the fingers of Omnipotence, with no self-moving power, man would never make a mistake, but his very immunity would degrade him to the ranks of the lower animals and the...
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
6 posts
The New Queen of Sunscreen? →
Tired of taking 10 minutes to rub on your sunscreen at the beach? Uncomfortable with one of your dude friends covering your backside? Thanks to Kristen McClellan, that may all change.
So I was walking through the exhibit floor during the Cornell entrepreneurship celebration 2 weeks ago and came across Kristen McClellan’s display. Kristen is a Junior in the school for Industrial and Labor...
The Professor →
A chance encounter leads to new knowledge. How this professor pointed me to some data that confirmed my entrepreneurial intuition.
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After my symposium session last Friday morning I was approached by a distinguished, professorial looking gentleman (the bow tie was the tip off). Lo and behold he was a professor. His name was William White and he happened to be the head of the Cornell Sloan...
Interesting People →
As I mentioned in my last post, I attended the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration this past week. Some foggy weather in NYC delayed my arrival into Ithaca a few hours but it did not damper the experience one bit. It was an absolute blast. I met a bunch of interesting people all passionate about entrepreneurship in their own way. Fields ranging from healthcare to energy and hospitality were...
Entrepreneurship@Cornell →
I will be going back to “The Hill” as a panelist for the 2 day Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration starting Thursday. The symposium is called Health and Medical Services: Successful Transitioning from Employee to Entrepreneur, the College of Human Ecology’s Sloan Program in Health Administration and eCornell.
Should be fun. Will also try to catch some spring football while...
Work Hour Restrictions to Pinch Residencies... →
New regulations starting this July will restrict intern work hours even further. Nobody yet knows how the system will cope…
March 2011
10 posts
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Rotator Cuff Tears: WSJ highlights treatment... →
The “rotator cuff” is a term used to describe the four main muscles that attach directly to the head of the humerus and that help stabilize and move the shoulder. When to get surgery on a torn cuff depends on a lot of factors. One thing that this article does not go into depth about is the age of the tear.
Acute or sudden tears are a different animal altogether than chronic tears. ...
Doing Good in Business →
I’ve been following Michael Masterson for the last few months now. He is a successful marketer that writes a weekly journal of insights. I found this one prescient. He makes the argument that there’s a better path to success than ruthlessness. Hope you enjoy this article
The Ten Commandments of Doing “Good” in Business
1. The customer is always right. Even when he is wrong.
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Why Orthopedic Surgeons (or anyone for that... →
If you’re not using Dropbox, you’re wasting time and energy and needlessly inconveniencing yourself. I’m not sure how many of you use Dropbox. Maybe you already do. If you don’t, or if you want to learn another way of using it, keep reading.
Dropbox is a freenweb based file storage program. It’s simple. Go to www.dropbox.com, and open an account. Then in seconds...
Touch Consult Welcomes the University of... →
Many New Docs Break Work Hour Rules →
A few years ago, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) put into effect work hour restrictions on doctors in training (residents). Residents are now, not allowed to work more than an average of 80 hours per week. Sounds like a lot by most standards but it isn’t when compared to the 120 hours that many used to work prior to these rules.
Well new studies show that...
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Broken Window Fallacy Resurfaces →
The natural disaster of a tsunami could actually provide a temporary boost to the global economy.
Larry Summers, former director of President Obama’s economic council and a former head of the World Bank, said rebuilding could temporarily boost the Japanese economy.
The logical extension of his argument is that we should destroy multiple major metropolitan areas around the globe to...
Watchbrycedotvc:
This video of Salman Khan’s TED talk has been making the rounds all week. Though I love the mission of his Khan Academy, I was most struck by its history.
For those unfamiliar the Khan Academy was born in 2006, not with a grand plan to change the face of education, but as a few math tutorials posted to YouTube by a hedge fund analyst in Boston for his cousins in New Orleans. His...
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Health IT and Incentives →
A recent excerpt from a blog post at the Touch Consult blog:
All this tells us a few things: 1) hospitals are under the gun to modernize their electronic medical records and 2) they are in a rush to implement ANYTHING that will get them a piece of the incentive pie. Remember, many hospitals receive huge federal subsidies through Medicare and Medicaid. Non compliance will not only put their...
Prescription Drugs
So I went to the drug store the other day to pick up some cold remedies and I noticed that Allegra (fexofenadine), a popular allergy medication was now being sold over the counter (OTC). I have used Allegra on occasion and have found it to be very effective. When I came home I told my wife about this and she lamented something to the effect that it likely won’t get covered by insurance...
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How I Use Tumblr
So besides this blog, which claims a small but loyal readership, I have begun to use Tumblr in other ways.
I have created a few private blogs.
One is a blog that I have used to keep track of the growth and development of my baby son. It is akin to the baby book that some of our mom’s kept over the years. I find Tumblr ideal for this because I am on the computer everyday and it makes it easy...
February 2011
4 posts
New Look →
We’re proud to show off the new look of our product’s site www.thelist.md. We hope this makes it easier to communicate our message.
Also check out our blog post at the Touch Consult site to read about other important upgrades.
Radio Rounds →
I am honored to be working with the Medical Students at the Wright State Boonshoft Medical School on Radio Rounds, the only medical student produced radio show in the country. My first episode aired on Superbowl Sunday. Right now the show airs on Sundays at 12 noon on the Wright State airwaves. And it can be picked up on iTunes as a podcast.
In episode 502 we talk with Dan Daneshvar and Alex...
“If you don’t need treatment, you can’t be helped by it.”
– H Gilbert Welch MD (via brucehopperjrmd)
Wise words oh grass-Hopper. (alright I know that was a terrible pun, but I like puns, and the quote)
Less is More →
It’s nearly cliché at this point to say but, when designing software, less if often more. Unfortunately clichés are often clichés for a reason: they are true. And truth is not ALWAYS self-evident. Even when you think you’ve designed in the most minimal, elegant format, you’re often wrong. We learned this recently…
January 2011
11 posts
Checklists Save Lives... →
… and cut malpractice claims. So read a recent headline out of Reuters. The article highlighted a study published recently in the Annals of Surgery which examined a checklist system used in the Netherlands. The authors found that many of the medical errors exposed by lawsuits were related directly to items covered by their checklist system. They felt that many of these error claims could have been...
“An authority isn’t a person or institution who is always right — ain’t no such...”
– Clay Shirky on Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary
via Andrew Sullivan
(via jericsinger)
Touch Consult Bootstraps →
Ever thought about starting a company? Bootstrapping is one way to go. It’s how we’re doing it. It’s sweet and sour, but mostly pretty sweet. Read on…
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Learning to Walk
I mentioned in a previous post that we have a little boy at home who has just learned to walk- now run. What is interesting about watching my son learn to walk is that there seems to have been a trade off going on. Every baby’s experience is different of course (friends of ours said that their son never crawled, just went from sitting to walking). But here is our experience.
Pretty soon...
“Society is a collective concept and nothing else; it is a convenience for...”
– Frank Chodorov
“Patients should be treated like people not pinballs”
– Christian DiPaola MD, orthopedic spine surgeon and my (twin) brother
Spokeo →
There’s a site called Spokeo that aggregates people’s name and personal info like home price etc. They obtain data from Facebook and other sites. If you want to protect what little there is left of your privacy by staying off Spokeo, you can “opt out” by following the instructions. If you don’t want to then just move along.
1. Go to the site www.spokeo.com
2....
“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me....”
– George Orwell, London 1941
December 2010
19 posts
