This week, The Doctor Anonymous Show is doing something a little bit different - a little different change of pace for the show this week. Don't worry, it's not going to be bad. In fact, I think we're going to have a lot of fun! (See video post above)
I'm happy to welcome Podcamp Ohio to the show. What is Podcamp Ohio? Well, the best way I would describe it is that it is a gathering of new media enthusiasts - whether it be blogs, podcasts, video podcasts, social networking, and whatever else comes to mind. Podcamp Ohio will take place this weekend on Saturday, June 28th in Columbus, Ohio.
So, I'm hoping to have some of the organizers on the show, to have some people who will be presenting sessions on the show, and to have attendees on the show - just talking about stuff. I think it will be a great time on Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 9pm Eastern Time. See you for the show!
No, these videos were not lost. I just thought that it made a good title of a post. Anyway, I just saw a couple of videos from Brandice. And, one of them has a layout of her room. Why is it when people go to Vegas - that people want to know what your hotel room was like - interesting. Anyway, here's her room tour below.
So, as I have been saying for weeks, I have minutes and minutes of unedited Vegas video from my own trip in May. Finally, I put together my hotel room tour. It's not exciting and the view left a lot to be desired. But, it was fun editing this thing together. Hope you enjoy the video below!
Thanks to Dr. David Loeb from Doctor David's Blog: Musings of a Pediatric Oncologist. (see video post above) The topic of cancer in kids is sometimes an awkward to talk about. Thanks to Dr. David for being up front and honest about talking about these issues. I very much appreciate his candor in talking about this stuff. If you haven't already, check out Show 39 of The Doctor Anonymous Show (and don't forget to rate the show!).
Following the interview, I shared some news stories and I'll add those links up on this post a little bit later. Thanks to The Medical Quack for calling into the show and saving me from myself. It's really tough to talk to yourself for 30 minutes to close the show. I really appreciate her promoting the show and talking about the show on her blog. If you haven't check it out yet, I encourage you to click on over to her blog called The Medical Quack.
Following the show, I had a request to go over to my Ustream "channel" again and broadcast over there for a bit. I was up there for about 10 minutes talking about the show and hanging out with my blog friends. Thanks so much to those who followed the after show.
I'm also thinking about trying out stickam to broadcast something similar. What's interesting about that site is that up to six people with laptop cams (or a video cam in general) can broadcast at the same time - so everybody sees everybody else. So, maybe I'll try that sometime.
Finally, I again wanted to thank everybody for your well wishes for my 2nd Blogiversary. I continue to be humbled every day by those who continue to stop by, read my blog, leave comments, listen to the show, call in to the show, and being a part of my blogging life. Thanks to all of you who support me and keep me doing this. I am eternally grateful. Thank you!
Join us tonight for The Doctor Anonymous Show number 39. Our guest will be Dr. David Loeb who is a pediatric oncologist. His blog is called Doctor David's Blog: Musings of a Pediatric Oncologist. Plus, he just celebrated his blogiversary yesterday.
If you do listen live, you can even take part in the chat room. It is truly "The show within the show." You can even call in and say hello. A great opportunity to interact with medbloggers you've only read about. And, you will be able to see me on the live webcam during the show! See you tonight!
For first time Blog Talk Radio listeners: *Although it is not required to listen to the show, I encourage you to register on the BlogTalkRadio site prior to the show. I think it will make the process easier.
*To get to my show site, click here. As show time gets closer, keep hitting "refresh" on your browser until you see the "Click to Listen" button. Then, of course, press the "Click to Listen" button.
*You can also participate in the live chat room before, during, and after the show. Look for the "Chat Available" button in the upper right hand corner of the page. If you are registered with the BTR site, your registered name and picture will appear in the chat room.
*You can also call into the show. The number is on my show site. I'll be taking calls beginning at around the bottom of the hour. There is also a "Click To Talk" feature where you do not need a phone to call into the show - only a microphone headset. Hope these tips are helpful!
You know what's kind of funny? I totally forgot that my blogiversary was today until I saw that it was Doctor David's blogiversary yesterday. So, thanks for reminding me.
The second year of The Doctor Anonymous Blog saw a lot of changes. It's also kind of funny because I told myself that I would never video post again, and yet I started that again at the beginning of this calendar year. I tried it briefly during my first year - to bad results (in my opinion). But, honestly, I think that's going a little bit better now.
Probably the most significant change was the addition of the internet radio show in August of last year. That medium has always fascinated me. Growing up, I always wondered what it would be like to be a DJ and play music. And, growing up, I also always wanted to be Johnny Carson and be the host of a talk show.
The first few months of the thing really just had me trying to figure out the technology. I complain of technical difficulties now. But, when the show first started, I remember one show where I was on for the first 2-3 minutes. Something would happen, and I didn't get back on until about 5 minutes left on the show.
The people that I have met and interviewed on the show have been fascinating. Thanks again to all those who took the time to be on the show and put up with my interviewing style. But, most importantly, thanks to all of you out there in blog land who take the time to listen to the show - either live or on the archives. We have a great time when it's live!
Unfortunately, something that also has changed on this blog is that I have been posting less on medical/health topics verses a year ago. I'm not sure why that happened. It's a little that my job as gotten busier - meaning less free time. I do take the time now to plan out the radio show and try to get guests - and that takes some time.
But, I miss writing, and that's why I started blogging in the first place. So, I want to promise myself that I will really try to write more posts again - whether they be about medical/health news, or day-to-day life, or whatever.
Thanks again to all of you out there who read the blog, who subscribe to the blog, who tell others about the blog. I'm still humbled by the thought that people out there actually are interested about reading this blog. Thanks so much! Hopefully, I'll still be able to do this for another year!
The Doctor Anonymous Show is proud to welcome Dr. David Loeb to show 39 on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 9pm Eastern Time. He is a pediatric oncologist which is a cancer doctor for kids. I've always been fascinated by those who choose to take care of kids with cancer. That has got to be tough work. His blog is called Doctor David's Blog: Musings of a Pediatric Oncologist. (See video post above)
My pager goes off all the time. Usually, it’s an annoyance, interrupting something I’m doing (talking with a patient, driving to work…) for something that may not be as urgent. (“Do you want to admit the patient on Wednesday or next Friday?”)
But sometimes the pager tells me something good.
Last week, one of my patients had a catastrophic experience – a 28-minute seizure that was the first sign of a previously-undetected metastasis to her brain. We admitted her to the ICU and arranged for surgery the next day. Unfortunately, that day I had a previously-booked flight to an osteosarcoma conference in Houston. So I asked a colleague to page me when the surgery was done.
I landed in Houston, turned on my pager, and moments later received this message, “M [the patient] out of OR, extubated, texting her friends.”
She’s a teenager. She’s texting her friends, so she must be doing well!
I also wanted to mention my little experiment from last weekend. So, I have this ustream account and last weekend on Saturday night, I turned on the camera on my laptop. I opened up the chat room over there, and for about 3 hours, we had people come in and out of the chat room and just hang out and talk. It was a lot of fun. Now, as usual, there were some technical problems and sometimes, I lost the picture. But everyone just kept chatting, and I played some music which people could year on the video/audio stream. Thanks to all of you who showed up to hang out. I should do that again sometime....
As I suspected, my scheduled guests did not show up for The Doctor Anonymous Show 38 (Don't forget to rate the show over there). But, I wasn't surprised by that. So, instead, I was happy to have people calling in and saying hello. (see video post above) First, I wanted to thank David Porter from the Center for Reducing Health Disparities and we talked about the website that he works on and the idea of health disparities in general.
Next, Angelo Mandato from PodcampOhio called in and we talked about how he got involved in the idea and the concept of podcamp. He has done a great job organizing the entire event. If you are anywhere in the midwestern United States - specifically Ohio - you have to try to get down to Columbus, Ohio for this gathering. We'll talk about all things new media like blogs, podcasts, video blogging, social networking, twitter, and so much more.
Finally, before all the technical problems occurred, Chris Seper from Cleveland.com/Medical called into the show. Thanks so much to him and the website for writing an article about me and for featuring the show in their sidebar. We had a great conversation about how the site is a great source of information about NE Ohio health issues and beyond. I'm really hoping to meet some of my NE Ohio blog/website colleagues in the future like Chris, David, and maybe even Buckeye Doctor who tuned into the show again tonight - thanks for that.
Then, the technical problems started. I won't bore you with the details. But, I wanted to thank the chat room again for hanging with me through that. I know that some were able to listen to me for the final moments of the show and some were not. Hopefully, blogtalkradio will be able to fix these problems so that I can have smooth shows again.
Perhaps the most pleasant surprise of the evening occurred after the blogtalkradio show. Just to try things out, I put the camera back on and activated my Ustream.tv account. We had a little "dance party" for about an hour after the show. I do have a little video on my ustream site to check out. Thanks to all those who joined the ustream party last night.
I think what I'll do is have another ustream "party" on Saturday, June 14th (Flag Day in the USA) at around 9pm eastern time. And, we'll do the same thing. People were telling me to get some "real" music. So, if you have a request, put it in the comments below and I'll do my best to try to find it. We'll do an hour or so, because I don't want to miss one of my fave blogtalkradio shows. So, have a great weekend, everybody, and maybe we'll see you Sat nite!
Join us tonight for The Doctor Anonymous Show number 38. Our scheduled guests are from the site called The Doctors Channel. But, still as of this posting, I have not received confirmation that they are indeed coming to the show tonight. So this show should be interesting.
Another interesting thing is that the entire BlogTalkRadio site crashed at about 10PM eastern time last night. How did I know that? Well, I was getting ready to listen to one of my fave shows when - right at the top of the hour - I could not get audio or video. And when I tried to refresh the page, I got an error message. So, we'll see what happens for my show tonight.
Here are other stories that I may cover on tonight's show: *My show being featured in the sidebar of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Health Page (woohoo!) *My (boring) (non) jury duty story *New Yorkers have a higher rate of herpes infection verses the rest of the nation *Athletes take Viagra before workout routines *And whatever else news stories I find interesting
If you do listen live, you can even take part in the chat room. It is truly "The show within the show." You can even call in and say hello. A great opportunity to interact with medbloggers you've only read about. And, you will be able to see me on the live webcam during the show! See you tonight!
For first time Blog Talk Radio listeners: *Although it is not required to listen to the show, I encourage you to register on the BlogTalkRadio site prior to the show. I think it will make the process easier.
*To get to my show site, click here. As show time gets closer, keep hitting "refresh" on your browser until you see the "Click to Listen" button. Then, of course, press the "Click to Listen" button.
*You can also participate in the live chat room before, during, and after the show. Look for the "Chat Available" button in the upper right hand corner of the page. If you are registered with the BTR site, your registered name and picture will appear in the chat room.
*You can also call into the show. The number is on my show site. I'll be taking calls beginning at around the bottom of the hour. There is also a "Click To Talk" feature where you do not need a phone to call into the show - only a microphone headset. Hope these tips are helpful!
I would like to invite you to the next edition of The Doctor Anonymous Show which will be Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 9pm eastern time. My scheduled guests are from the website called The Doctors Channel. The Co-Founders of the site are Dr. Micheal Banks and Dr. David Best. The site describes itself as this: The Doctor’s Channel is a useful, time-saving tool that condenses the overwhelming amount of information doctors are forced to navigate each day in a creative, informative way.
I also want to let you know that I sent them a confirmation e-mail earlier this week, but have not heard back from them yet. Of course, that may change at any time. For now, I will keep them on the schedule and on my sidebar. I have the utmost confidence that they will keep their commitment to the show and be our guest tomorrow night.
If not, then, I think I'm more than capable of filling the time with whatever comes to mind. Maybe I'll talk about the impending Friday the 13th this week. Or, Flag Day (in the US) in June 14. Or, Father's Day (in the US) on June 15th. I have to update everybody on my jury duty episode this week. And, I have big news (for me) about a major newspaper site featuring The Doctor Anonymous Show on their health page (woo hoo!). So, join us for Show 38. You won't want to miss it!
I'm happy to announce that our blog friend NeoNurseChic is back. She sent out an e-mail this morning announcing her return. Some of you newer bloggers may not remember her, but about a year and a half ago, she was very active in the medblogger community.
Then, circumstances happened that she had to make her blog private and she dropped out of the medblog world for a while (although I would still see her leave comments at places like The Shrink Rap Blog). Anyway, she has a long post today, which is basically a catch up post for what she's been doing.
So, I encourage you to drop by over there, take a read (especially at some of her earlier posts), and leave a comment of welcoming her back. I have missed her around and hope that she continues blogging for a while.
