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Dr. A Show 63: The Christmas Show

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 9pm Eastern Time (0200 GMT)

As you can see in the video above, I have totally lost my mind. I can't believe that it's only one week until Christmas. Are you into the whole Christmas thing, yet? I know not a lot of people are. Well, have I got the prescription for you. Why not join me for The Doctor Anonymous Christmas Show.

Do you have favorite Christmas music, movies, and TV shows? Why not call into the show and let's talk about it! We also might share some childhood Christmas memories. Did you see my gift to all of you earlier this week? What were your favorite Christmas gifts when you were a kid? We'll talk about that - and I'll also have some mystery guests. So, you don't want to miss that!

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 for the show!

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. Hope these tips are helpful!

Spend New Year's Eve with Dr. A!

Are you looking for a date on New Year's Eve? Well, why not hang out with me live on the internet! What am I talking about?

Cliff Ravenscraft is someone I met at Podcamp Ohio this past summer. I even did an interview with him. If you haven't already, check it out on my viddler site to learn more about Cliff and his podcast network called the Generally Speaking Podcast Network, or GSPN.tv.

Anyway, Cliff is going to do something that I could not even think of doing. He's going to podcast for 24 hours in a row on New Year's Eve. How crazy is that? Actually, I have always wanted to try that. I mean I know all about sleep deprivation, and I think that I would have fun at least trying it out.

Join me on the GSPN Marathon Podcast from 9:00-10:00pm Eastern time on December 31, 2008. If you have skype, you'll be able to "call" in to the show and talk to me and Cliff. I'm hoping that some from the Dr. A community will call in to introduce the GSPN community to what we're all about. This should be a fun show! It's going to be even more fun, because I'm on call that night. Hopefully, my pager won't go off to many times during our conversation.

Finally, I did want to talk a little bit about GSPN itself. Cliff produces a bunch of podcasts in the areas of technology, entertainment, family and faith. There are just too many for me to list here. In addition, Cliff has been podcasting for three years, and even left his former job so that he could pursue is dream of working in podcasting/newmedia full time. I very much respect that. See you New Year's Eve!

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Dr. A Show on ProMed Network

I had an interesting opportunity presented to me about a week ago. I was approached to have The Doctor Anonymous Show to be on a new medical/health podcast network. Jamie Davis, RN, who produces podcasts like The Medic Podcast and The Nursing Show, is the managing editor of The ProMed Network.

I think that is great that there are attempts being made out there to try to aggregate some of the great medical/health content that is out there in New Media Medicine. In addition to this medical/health podcast network, I'm hoping that someone out there (who has a lot more time than me) will step up and make the bold effort to try to make a single location of all the great medical blogs that are out there. I have some ideas on this, but don't have the time (or the energy) to try to put all that together.

One of the things I'd like to do in 2009 is to make efforts to get out of the comfort zone of the medical blogosphere. I really want to learn more about the medical/health podcast community and even see if there are non-medically related audiences out there in the vast internet who may have an interest in the Doctor Anonymous blog and show. For now, I encourage you to check out the podcasts on The ProMed Network. There are some interesting ones over there. Thanks to Jamie for the opportunity to be a part of the network!

Christmas Show Preview

Ok, you're probably wondering what I was talking about on Twitter when I said something like, "My Christmas Gift." Well, it's the video above. And before everyone out there gets the wrong idea. The last part of the video above comes from the video vault of Dr. A. A few weekends ago, I was going through some old video tapes from high school. Back then, we had these bulky video cameras and either wanted to be a Hollywood filmmaker or a comedian.

In the video above, you'll find old, old footage of me and my high school friends at an amusement park ride. We were on a "science" field trip in which we were given some physics problems to figure out during the course of the day. Above, we're in line for a lame ride, and we're just passing the time, just talking about nothing.

I can't believe I wore those geeky glasses back then. You'll also see the Kent State University sweatshirt I was wearing as well. It was my dream at the time to go to Kent State, but that didn't happen. I lived at home and went to good of Youngstown State University for college. Also in the video above, you'll see the poofed out hair styles which defined the 80s - good stuff.

Finally, you'll see some of the early glimpses of my comedic genius in action, even as a teenager - hehe. This video was so much fun to put together. I'm a little bit embarrassed to put this out, but I figured, what the heck. It's my Christmas gift to all of you.

BTW, speaking of Christmas, join us for The Doctor Anonymous Christmas Show which will be Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 9pm Eastern Time. We'll be talking about Christmas memories from childhood, your favorite Christmas movies, TV shows, music, and whatever else comes to mind. I'll also be joined by a couple of mystery guests. See you for the show!

Show 62 Wrap-up

Thanks to Angelo from Podcamp Ohio for joining us on The Doctor Anonymous Show 62. (see video post above) We're just in the beginning stages of the planning process for the event which will take place on Saturday, June 20, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio at Ohio State University. (Can also download show here)

Angelo also gave us an update stating that his wife Heather is due with their first child in the middle on January. I encourage you to check out his blog to see a picture from a recent baby shower. Angelo also shared his experience at the recent Podcamp Pittsburgh meeting.

Following the interview, I was happy to welcome Trauma Junky who not only listened to the show for the first time, he also called into the show to talk about respiratory therapy and his blog called Surviving RT School. TJ even wrote a post about being on the show. Thanks so much! I encourage you to check it out. The post is entitled, "Does this makes me famous?"

Finally, want to give a shout out to one of my new peeps named "T-rave." He talks about tech on his site and also on Twitter. He also listened to the show for the first time. And, what does he do? He makes a video post about it. Thanks so much! You are the man!

Dr. A Show 62: Podcamp Ohio

Thursday, December 11th, 2008 at 9pm Eastern Time (0200 GMT)

The Doctor Anonymous Show welcomes Angelo from Podcamp Ohio to discuss plans for the June 20, 2009 event. Here is what Angelo wrote yesterday in the Podcamp Ohio google discussion group:

I'm quite excited to kick off the PodCamp Ohio 2009 planning on the Doctor Anonymous podcast. We have the technical issues ironed out from the first PodCamp, so this next year's PodCamp Ohio podcast will be much more entertaining rather than technical.
We can discuss some ideas what we want to do with the next PodCamp Ohio. We can also discuss next years location which will be Mendenhall Lab at Ohio State University. I'll [be] posting some pictures from the building on flickr and send the link to the Google group. All of the rooms available to us at Mendenhall Lab are at minimum the same size as the medium size rooms from last years PodCamp Ohio.

In addition to this topic, I wanted to mention Blog World Expo 2009 which will be October 15-17, 2009 in Las Vegas. There has been talk of a possible health/medblogger programming track. Well, it was learned this week on the BWE blog, that BWE will be merging with the New Media Expo, which will make a huge event next year. Why is this important, because this will be THE national conference for blogging & podcasting. I'm motivated more than ever to go to this conference! What else will we talk about? Who knows?

*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.

Show 62 Preview

This week, The Doctor Anonymous Show is going to be more new media as opposed to medical. (see video post above) What do I mean by that? Well, we're happy to welcome our friends from Podcamp Ohio to the show this week. In my own mind, I have designated the Dr. A Show as the "Official/Unofficial podcast of Podcamp Ohio" (hehe) I think every month until Podcamp Ohio 2, the show will be giving updates on the event.

For those of you who don't know, Podcamp Ohio 2 will be Saturday, June 20th, 2009 at Ohio State University. If you didn't happen to see how much fun we had last year, I encourage you to check out a bunch of videos that were shot at the 2008 event. Angelo, who is the lead organizer of the event, will be our guest this week. He'll be giving us an update on the most current information Podcamp Ohio 2. So, join us for the next exciting episode of The Doctor Anonymous Show which will be this Thursday, December 11th, 2008 at 9pm Eastern Time on BlogTalkRadio.

The Doctor Anonymous Show Featured on iTunes

When I was checking out the iTunes store last weekend, I was pleasantly surprised to find the image above. What is it? Well, it's The Doctor Anonymous Show in the "New and Notable" section of iTunes. Of course, the show is in the podcast section of iTunes. But, it's under the "Health" category and "Alternative Health" sub-category.

Now, I had no idea that the show was going to be on iTunes. I had nothing to do with that. I would imagine that BlogTalkRadio makes a feed available to iTunes and that's how it got there. And, there is no "medicine" category at BTR, so that's probably how the show ended up in the iTunes health category.

As I was exploring more the "Health" podcast category of iTunes, I saw the image above. It is the "Featured" section. And, do you see the lower right corner of the graphic above? Well, it's The Doctor Anonymous Show featured on ITunes! Now, granted, it's on the last page of the "Alternative Health" section, but I'm featured, baby - at least for now.

So, here's my plea. For those of you who enjoy The Doctor Anonymous Show, I encourage you to subscribe to my iTunes feed. Also, please leave me a review over there on iTunes. I hope to climb the ladder of popular podcasts over there on iTunes. And, I can do exactly that, with your help. Thanks so much for your continued support for the show!

Zippy in Spain

Recently, there have been some mentions of Zippy and where the heck is he at. Well, I did manage to find him in Spain - with of all people, our blog buddy - Crzegrl. As the people from Change of Shift know, she was in Barcelona last month, and guess who went with her? In the video above, Zippy is enjoying the L'aquarium Barclelona. Although, he did look a little intimidated. I'll let you judge for yourself.

This also gives me the opportunity to again mention the silent quilt auction by Ramona which I mentioned previously. The latest bid is $300 and the bid will be going to The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation. And, if you can't bid, consider giving a donation to this worthy cause.

Show 61 Wrap-up

Thanks to Enrico for being a fabulous guest host for Show 61. (See the video above) I just listened to the archive, and it sounded like everyone had a good time. I also wanted to thank the people that called into the show including Dr. Val, Ramona, MJRN, Bongi, and Vijay. I also heard that we had a pretty good crowd in the chat room for the show. Grand Rounds always brings a great discussion.

Although I wished that I could have watched the show live, from listening to the archive, I could really tell that the panel and everyone in the chat room were helping Enrico out during the show. There was even a point where, I think, Enrico's skype cut out - and the panel just kept the discussion going. I think possibly this is a new BTR host in the making.

I was able to catch Enrico's after show when I got home last night. And, that was a good time, too. I so, so, so, so much appreciate everyone's support of The Enrico Show and my show in general. The community that we have connected around the world continues to amaze me. Have a great weekend everybody!

Update: Below is Enrico's video wrap-up. I'm jealous of the HD quality video. Maybe it's time for me to get that HD cam, ugh. Enjoy the smoove music as Enrico gives his commentary. Great job!