Grand Rounds 2:35 Is Up!

Grand Rounds 2:35 is up. If there is an online male-equivalent for the real-life magazines that crowd the Women's Interest sections of supermarkets or newsagents, then Grand Rounds is it for me. It's pathetic, I'm one of the most squeamish people that you could hope not to be the only person around the day you cut yourself or be in need of some First Aid, but I am utterly fascinated by the insight into the working lives of people whose jobs make an obvious and direct difference.

Thanks to the host, Dr. Emer of Parallel Universes, I have enough reading to dip in and out of for a full week. It is fascinating and has a clever layout along the style of a journal frontispiece. Dr. Charles has developed a protocol for identifying the Charles Sign. The Cheerful Oncologist extols the virtues of exercise (in a roundabout sort of way). Why taking medicine to treat heart-disease is seen as preferable to patients changing their lifestyle habits. There's an encounter between a jazz musician who doesn't like doctors and the doctor whom he consults. All in all, it is a fascinating read.