Grand Rounds Vol. 7 No. 45

(http://www NULL.jamesloganmd NULL.com/wordpressp-content/uploads/2011/08/Web1 NULL.0-21 NULL.png)<tt>Remember the days when one accessed the internet by using a telephone line to dial up an isp? For that matter, remember when one made telephone calls using an actual telephone line? Well, for this blogger, that day has returned. I very foolishly agreed to host grand rounds during the week after a move to a new apartment (still no agreement on a new dining room table (http://www NULL.jamesloganmd NULL.com/?p=352), by the way) not realizing that our high speed internet would not yet be set up during the time I would be preparing this post. No matter. I temporarily have free dial-up access! Hence, this grand rounds is going to be a tribute to Web 1.0 and the various deprecated tags of HTML 4. Comments, of course, are still enabled.</tt>

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• <DM>Guest post by Sysy Morales at Diabetes Mine (http://www NULL.diabetesmine NULL.com/) on the top 10 things women want their partners to know about their diabetes (http://www NULL.diabetesmine NULL.com/2011/07/10-things-we-women-with-diabetes-want-you-to-know NULL.html).</DM>
• <!>Henry Stern from InsureBlog (http://insureblog NULL.blogspot NULL.com/) gives us the story of man who takes the idea of patient empowerment (http://insureblog NULL.blogspot NULL.com/2011/07/emtala-vs-diy NULL.html) a bit too far.</!>
• <ouch>Ryan Dubosar, who blogs at ACP Internist (http://blog NULL.acpinternist NULL.org/) runs with this theme, mentioning the same case in his post about self surgery (http://blog NULL.acpinternist NULL.org/2011/07/qd-news-every-day-self-surgery-seems NULL.html).</ouch>
• <chest pain>Ryan also blogs at ACP Hospitalist (http://blog NULL.acphospitalist NULL.org/) and, in this post (http://blog NULL.acphospitalist NULL.org/2011/07/chest-pain-unrelated-to-heart-attack NULL.html), examines the connection between chest pain and the liklihood of acute MI.</chest pain>
• <ALCL>Can breast implants cause cancer? Ramona Bates from Suture for a Living (http://rlbatesmd NULL.blogspot NULL.com/) gives us more information on a clinical entity known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma (http://rlbatesmd NULL.blogspot NULL.com/2011/07/more-on-implant-related-alcl-of-breast NULL.html).</ALCL>
• <med news>Jessie Gruman gives us a post on how the revenue model for online news undermines our ability to make good choices about our health care (http://blog NULL.preparedpatientforum NULL.org/blog/2011/07/our-preference-in-health-news-uncertainty-or-naked-ladies/). She posts regularly on the What It Takes (http://blog NULL.preparedpatientforum NULL.org/blog/) blog at the Prepared Patient Forum (http://www NULL.preparedpatientforum NULL.org/) website</med news>
• <brca 1>Amy Berman, who blogs at The John A Hartford Foundation Blog (http://www NULL.jhartfound NULL.org/blog/), gives us the fifth post (http://www NULL.jhartfound NULL.org/blog/?p=3973) in her series on living with stage IV breast cancer.</brca 1>
• <brca 2>Breast cancer survivor Beth Gainer gives us a post this week on the psychological burden of her illness (http://bethlgainer NULL.blogspot NULL.com/2011/07/psychological-burden-of-cancer NULL.html) Her blog is called Calling the Shots (http://www NULL.bethlgainer NULL.blogspot NULL.com/).</brca 2>
• <htn>Dr. Charles (http://www NULL.theexaminingroom NULL.com/) looks at the pitfalls of evaluating blood pressure in an office setting (http://www NULL.theexaminingroom NULL.com/2011/07/how-to-improve-your-blood-pressure-check/).</htn>
• <heat>Dr. Paul S. Auerbach has a post on this past week’s unprecedented heat wave (http://www NULL.healthline NULL.com/health-experts/outdoor-medicine/midwest-heat-wave-2011) over at Healthline (http://www NULL.healthline NULL.com/).</heat>
• <portal>Steve Wilkins of Mind the Gap (http://healthecommunications NULL.wordpress NULL.com/) gives us his take on patient portals (http://healthecommunications NULL.wordpress NULL.com/2011/07/31/patient-portals-%E2%80%93-what-do-patients-really-think-about-them/).</portal>
• <psych>Finally, Will Meek gives us a very interesting post on the clinical issue of believing that something is fundamentally wrong with oneself (http://willmeekphd NULL.com/item/defective-self-complex). He blogs at www.willmeekphd.com (http://www NULL.willmeekphd NULL.com/).</psych>

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<i>Next week’s Grand Rounds will be hosted by Dr. Deb (http://drdeborahserani NULL.blogspot NULL.com).</i>

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