2.0 presentation (collaboration)

My talk from 10/23/2009 Grand Rounds is here.

blue zones

interesting talk about longevity and lifestyle.

Worth your time

How could coupons possibly be worsening the health care crisis (yes, coupons)? Is it possible that insurance companies aren't the problem? Is the "public option" debate missing the point?

These questions and more are answered in the this intriguing and entertaining show about health care costs and reform. I think this matters and is relevant. Each part is about an hour.

Part 1: More is less

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1320

Part 2: Someone else's money

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1321

It's relevant to our specialty and to this particular time in the country. We're all at the beginning of our careers and the entire industry is being rethought. right now. by a lot of people who aren't doctors.

If you feel that discussion of health care really breaks along partisan lines, it's this kind of report that cuts through that. And if you're feeling uneasy about the current debate because it seems to be missing the point in some way, that's what this is about.

I think we all want to practice evidence based medicine. It's at the heart of our specialty. All the forces that you haven't really thought about why we sometimes (often?) don't do that thing that all of the evidence supports.

link page

Here's that page of links.

http://delicious.com/fmacademics

Advantages:
no log on is required (saves time)
everything in one place
you can search and sort them as you'd like

Disadvantages:
Some links are on the intranet only - hard to avoid this
I actually don't have all the family med links in there (I missed a bunch) - but I'm working on it.
It's another thing to deal with

And:
If you like it and want to create your own account, that's great. I think that's the whole '2.0' part.
If you'd like to edit this list, the user name is fmacademics and the password is @mayofp1

Let me know what you think.

Useful Websites

Here's the list so far...

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Avx385EXJZMydF84RWY4ZS1QTmc1cjYwWnBwMjVGbnc&hl=en

Family Medicine Journal Club - Tuesday, October 13

Family Medicine Journal Club: OCTOBER Details
WHEN: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 AT 6 PM.
WHO: Dr. Robert Bonacci will be facilitating a discussion of Technology in Family Medicine.
WHERE: Dr. Bonacci's House 910 Folwell Drive SW. Map at http://bit.ly/1IbOzg
ARTICLE FOR DISCUSSION:
Tranform presentation on emerging techonologies at http://centerforinnovation.mayo.edu/transform/index.html. You will need to scroll down to on the “Transform Talks” window and you will find the presentation by Indu Subaiay.

RSVP with Tammy Younge so we can figure out logistics.

Here's a short survey we'll discuss, as well: http://bit.ly/Tq3vf

About Journal Club
Journal club is a monthly meeting the second Tuesday every month. It intends to focus on the evidence that supports the care we provide. Usually we'll be reviewing a single journal article.

To prepare, we ask that you 1) view the video and 2) think of ALL the websites you access while you're providing care and submit the name of one website you use (besides www.uptodate.com and www.mayo.edu) which helps you provide more effective care.

Most of all it's supposed to be relevant and interesting.
Email me if you have ideas for articles for discussion and/or you'd like to facilitate a future discussion.
And remember, contrary to the old Klingon proverb Journal Club is a dish best served warm.
Take care,
Mark Morgan

Palliation and one other thing

http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Afx385EXJZMyZGdjbW1zZnFfOTYxNnNocnY1aGI&hl=en

From Dr. Matthews on EBM:

...an open-access article from PLoS Medicine.

Nice article from PLoS about bias in clinical trials...

Read the open-access, full-text article here:
http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000152