Edge on over to Edwin Leap…
Jan 6th, 2009 by precordialthump
That’s right, the Medical Blog Grand Rounds are back!
This time the topic is money in medicine. As an emergency medicine doctor in the Australian public health system I hate having to think about dollars and cents, but they’re part of the inescapable reality of modern health systems. Edwin Leap provides a great introduction to the topic and superbly summarises the blogs of the week.
My tip this week - check out The Web 2.0-EBM Medicine split. [1] Introduction into a short series at Laika’s MedLibLog for an enlightening look at the tensions and differences between evidence-based medicine and Medicine 2.0. This is THE future of medicine folks! - incidentally, make sure you’ve read “The times they are a changing“. I’ll have my eyes peeled for the rest of Laika’s series…
As for my submission to Ground Rounds this past week, it was The Cretin and the Pharoah. I wanted to provide a reminder that medicine isn’t about money - it’s about people and helping them: whoever, wherever, whenever.
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
- Rudolf Virchow
I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Kate
http://educationonline-101.com
Cheers Kate - thanks for the support!