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Medicine

Tangled Bank

The latest Tangled Bank is up at The Inoculated Mind, this time with a nifty Star Wars theme! Orac “Skywalker,” Jedi Knight? I like it. I like the reference to “Darth Voxer” (a reference to Vox Day and his antivaccination idiocy) even more…

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Evolution Medicine Religion Science

One last time: Our young earth creationist medical student is at it again

Oh, boy. Last week, as part of my series Medicine and Evolution, I mentioned the blog of a homeschooled medical student who also happens to be a young earth creationist and used her as an example of why I feared that credulity towards a a pseudoscience that is so obviously wrong based on the empirical […]

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Medicine Science

Is a medical Wikipedia a good idea?

I had wanted to proceed to part 5 of my Medicine and Evolution series, but, frankly, I wasn’t much in the mood for anything serious over the weekend, and, let’s face it, that case of the blog blahs continued even into yesterday. Otherwise I would have done my blog buds Abel Pharmboy and Bora more […]

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Medicine

Grand Rounds is up!

Grand Rounds, vol. 2, no. 31 has been posted at Health Business Blog. Check it out.!

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Medicine

Guys like this give breast surgeons a bad name

As a surgical oncologist whose practice is made up largely of treating breast cancer, I really hate guys like this: MIAMI – A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said Thursday. […]