Health 2.0

What's wrong with U.S. health care?

RangelMD is accepting submissions for 4th of July Grand Rounds. The subject is "what's wrong with health care in the U.S. and how can we fix it" Given the topic, I imagine the inbox will be flooded :)

Grand Rounds Vol 2, #38

The latest Grand Rounds at The Haversian Canal. Nice clean format of links. Sometimes the sheer volume of the Grand Rounds can be overwhelming, but this one cuts to the link-- very nice. Here's a sobering piece on the dark side of alternative medicine, although the author agrees that some therapies, such as acupuncture and hynosis, indeed have some evidence-based foundations.

Grand Carnival

Every health niche seems to justify it's own Grand Rounds. Not only is there the weekly general Grand Rounds, but there's a pediatric ground rounds, a radiology ground rounds, and probably a host of others I haven't encountered yet. Anyone out there have a directory of these? This goes hand in hand with the blog carnival concept.

Cows + Nuns = Vaccine

Well, not exactly, but check out the true story of cows, nuns and the cervical cancer vaccine at MedGadget.

Grand Rounds 2.37 | The Medical Blog Network

Health Voices' "Medical Blog Network" hosts the Grand Rounds. Btw, The Medical Blog Network at Health Voices is growing rapidly, adding 50 new medical bloggers in the last few weeks alone. Check out their upcoming medical-blogging conference in DC.

Pediatric Grand Rounds #4

Hosted at Anxiety and Depression

The cold truth

The Myth of Antibiotics, and why people keep taking them for colds anyway. This is very well written, and goes into the psychology of medicine. The gist of the post centers around "the theory of the 4th day," which is the day that most patients go to see their doctors when they have a cold. It's also the day when their cold is reaching full intensity, and about to begin its steady decline. So the patient starts taking antibiotics on Day 4 (not to mention cough depressents and so forth) and they start getting better-- not because of the antibiotics, but because colds generally start running out of steam after Day 4. Thus the illusion.