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Thursday, March 13, 2003

Tour of the Medical Blogs: Lots of good stuff out there in the medical blogosphere today. Dr. Alice finds beauty in the usually reviled ICD-9 code book, the master list that translates every medical diagnosis from the English language to a numerical value. RangelMD has all the latest dope on Texas tobacco lawyers. Like all things Texan, they did things in a big way.

DB rants about Medicare, while his readers rant about Tricare (the health insurance program for the men and women in the military and their dependents.) It’s really disheartening to know that Tricare is funded at even lower levels than Medicare or Medicaid. Don’t our men and women in uniform deserve better than that?

GruntDoc notes a case of a woman who actually had her “do not resuscitate" orders tattoed on her chest, and Dr. Bradley has some observations on the space shuttle recovery team members whom he’s been treating lately in the ER.

And on the nursing front, Alwin notes that there’s been an outbreak of atypical pneumonias in Asia, possibly harbringers of a more virulent flu strain to come.

(Yeah, I know. I’m being lazy, but I’ve been on call for four of the past five nights, and I’m tired.)

UPDATE: Alwin Hawkins has a picture of the DNR tattoo.

posted by Sydney on 3/13/2003 08:56:00 PM 0 comments

Thursday, March 13, 2003

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