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Posts from November 2007

Testing-testing: You want fries with that INR?

This is a superficial post on point-of-care (POC) testing touching on general background info. This topic and especially “Lab On A Chip (LOC)” has been addressed several times by Dr. Friedman in LabSoftNews (see links tab to the right). Over a dinner of delicious home-cooked food, my mother, in a perpetual exercise to understand the [...]

Kling on Heath Care Economics

If you have an hour to kill, and an interest in health care policy, you could do worse than listen to Arnold Kling, author of Crisis of Abundance, in a recent podcast.

Pathology. The Movie.

There’s not a lot to be said here, except that you’ve GOT to watch the trailer for this movie. It’s a must-see. Could we buy better publicity?

Testing-testing: do we give verbiage a bad name?

Like many people, I dislike the word “verbiage” , but just testing the waters for catchy blog titles. Directly influenced by my PGY year (4) I have been interested in report construction and the use of language to convey diagnostic findings, diagnostic uncertainty, and the interpretation of newer tests such as new molecular tests which [...]