Grand Rounds 6.23 Here Next Week

I'd like to thank Nick Genes (the "grand poobah" and founder of Grand Rounds) for another opportunity for hosting Grand Rounds. My first opportunity was for GR 3.09 all the way back on November 21, 2006 (was it that long ago).

My second opportunity was for GR 4.08 on November 13, 2007. And that was a cool experience I "premiered" grand rounds live on my internet radio show when I was on the road in Arizona. You can check it out the show in the player below.

Grand Rounds 6.23 will occur here on March 2, 2010. I'll be on the road again as I post this Grand Rounds. I'll be in Atlanta at the HIMSS 2010 conference and I will be helping out Dr. Val and Better Health in coverage of that event.

As far as GR 6.23, I encourage you to review the submission guidelines here. Just FYI, there is no theme. However, I do enjoy reading good medical stories. And, as I said when I first hosted GR, not all submissions will get in, and if your post is left out, I apologize in advance. Also, in order for me to keep things organized, I'd appreciate if you could make your submissions using the following format...

Post Name:
Post URL:
One Line Description:

The deadline will be 11:59pm eastern standard time on Sunday, February 28th, 2010. I will be selecting what I think are the best five of the week and will place them at the top of the post.

For the rest of the GR 6.23 post, I will be posting them in the chronological order of when they appear in my e-mail box (presuming I think they are appropriate for GR). I hope this encourages you to send me your link early. Send GR posts to doctoranonymousblog at gmail dot com. Please place "GR 6.23" in the subject line.

If I have a decent internet connection in Atlanta, I encourage you to join me for my live internet radio show (conveniently called "The Doctor Anonymous Show" hehe) on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 8:30pm Eastern Time as I will be trying to drum up last postings for my Grand Rounds and share some thoughts before my first HIMSS conference. Hope to see you for the show and and get writing!

Show 147 Wrap-up: Firefighter Netcast

Thanks again to Rhett Fleitz and John Mitchell for being guests on Doctor Anonymous Show 147. We had a great conversation about how they chose their career as a firefighter/EMS responder, their respective websites, and firefighter/EMS social media community in general. It's so interesting that they have never met in person, yet, they collaborate on the podcast called FireFighter Netcast.

Close to the end of the show, our good friend Dom called into the show to join the conversation. He is a volunteer firefighter in Tennessee and told our guests that he has forwarded some of the information from their show onto the people that he works with. How connections are made in the social media space continue to amaze and inspire me.

As always, you can listen to the show in the player above. Or if you like, you can download the show and listen anytime by clicking here. I also encourage you to become a Facebook Fan of the show. Like what you here, just click here and that will take you to my iTunes page where you have access to previous shows. Finally, check out the first few moments of the show in the video below. Have a great week everybody!

Dr. A Show Tonight!

Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 9pm ET

I invite you to join me tonight for Doctor Anonymous 147 when our guests will be Rhett Fleitz and John Mitchell who are hosts of the Firefighter Netcast internet radio show. (check out the full preview post here)

Rhett Fleitz is the author of the blog FireCritc and John Mitchell is author of the blog FireDaily. We'll talk about their show, their blogs, and the firefighter/EMS internet community. We may even talk about the recent premiere of Chronicles of EMS.

If you are new to the show, I encourage you to catch us live. There is a great chat room that also goes on. You can even see my shining face on the webcam. In addition, you can call into the show to say hello. Can't catch us live? That's ok. You can listen anytime after the show as it is saved as a podcast so you can listen anytime!

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 "Play/Chat" button. Then, of course, press the "Play/Chat" button.

Dr. A Show 147 Preview: Firefighter Netcast

This week, Doctor Anonymous Show 147 welcomes two great people from the firefighter and social media community who are hosts of the podcast called Firefighter Netcast. Rhett Fleitz, who is author of the blog Fire Critic, has been around the Fire/EMS Service for around 15 years. John Mitchell, who is author of the blog Fire Daily, is a lieutenant in suburban Chicago and just started his blog only five months ago.

Their most recent show talked about "Old School Vs New School and Using Social Media." You can listen to the show on the player below. (If you listen closely, right at around 60 minutes, the hosts mention their future appearance on the Dr. A Show.)

So, I hope you'll be able to join us live on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 9pm Eastern Time for Doctor Anonymous Show 147. For those who may be new to the show, there is a chat room during the show. You can also call in to say hello. There is even a webcam so that you can see me do the show live before your very eyes. Don't forget to become a Facebook Fan of the show. Also, check out the video promo below. Hope to see you for this week's show!

Show 146 Wrap-up

Thanks to those of you who were able to check out Doctor Anonymous Show 146 either live or on the archived podcast. I talked about my recent recognition as Blogger.com Blog Of Note. I also talked about some general thoughts about the olympics and some specific thoughts about the Vancouver opening ceremonies. Finally, as you will see in the video below, I shared some stories related to Valentine's Day.

As always, you can listen to the full audio podcast in the player above. If not, you can download the show and listen anytime by clicking here. Hope you had (or are having a good extended holiday weekend). Happy President's Day and thanks for your continued support of my blog and of my show!

Olympics 2010

I don't know what it is about the olympics, but it definitely fires up feelings of inspiration and joy. The people are different, but the feelings, in general, are the same. These people from around the world, work at least four years for a moment like this. All their hopes an dreams could be realized or crushed by a millisecond or a tenth of a point.

And, of course, tragedy has also struck the Vancouver games even before the opening ceremonies. In my opinion, the press, like it usually does, spends way too much time on the negative - even days later. I know it's a legitimate news story, but the manner that this story was portrayed - I had a problem with.

Anyway, there are so many stories that are brought to the games - from around the world. Just when you thought that you heard every olympic story that could be told through the years, another inspiring, or heart-breaking, or motivating tale is told.

If for anything else, these two weeks of the olympic games will be a nice escape from the reality of the world that we live in - whether it be the economy, or the weather, or whatever personal challenges that we are all facing.

I hope that you get to watch some of the games over the next two weeks. Don't worry if you start to feel yourself get a little carried away with emotion, or if you find yourself shedding a tear of joy or sorrow. Even for a little bit, we can all try to feel what it's like to live an olympic dream....

Show 145 Wrap-up: Drew Griffin

Thanks so much to Drew Griffin from The Wound Care Education Institute for coming on Doctor Anonymous Show 145. We had a great conversation about how he became interested in health/medicine and his path toward nursing - and then subsequently his interest in wound care. We then talked more about specifics about WCEI and how a physician (like me) can approach on how to care for a wound.

Following this clinical conversation, we talked about his personal website and is passion of digital/social media. The first question I asked him was his opinion of the iPad (how could I do that? hehe). Then we talked about the importance organized medicine should become more involved in social media.

As always, you can listen to the show on the player above. Or, if you like, you can download the show and listen anytime by clicking here. Also check out the show wrap-up video below. My next show will be Show 146 which will be on Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 9pm Eastern Time. Hope to see you then!

Blogger "Blog of Note" for Feb 11, 2010

Just in the past hour or so, I just happened to be checking my stats, and I noticed a SIGNIFICANT jump up in visits. When I explored further, I found out that Blogger selected the "Doctor Anonymous" blog as their Blog of the Day or what they call "Blog of Note" (see image above).

According to the "Blog of Note" page, they want to recognize "Interesting and noteworthy Blogger-powered blogs, compiled by the Blogger Team." I have no idea what the selection criteria is. But, I want to very much thank Blogger not only for being today's "Blog of Note" but also for the opportunity to host my blog on this platform.

Welcome to those of you who are new to the blog. If you are wondering, yes, I am a "real" physician. I am a Family Medicine Physician in NE Ohio and I have had this blog since 2006. I enjoy blogging about medical topics, but I enjoy writing about just about anything. As you can see from my sidebar, I'm involved in a lot of aspects of social media including podcasting and video. I hope you will take the opportunity to take a read of some of my other posts.

I have had over 1000 posts and early on some of the most commented posts included ones about leaving the office against medical advice, do you prefer your doctor wearing a lab coat or no lab coat, do you prefer your doctor (presuming male) wearing a tie or no tie, and participating in sharing the best medical posts of the week in a blog carnival called "Grand Rounds."

I have also written posts about some medical controversies including what was called "The Ashley Treatment," the possibility of a uterus transplant (particularly for those desiring children), and asking the question "Is depression really depression?"

This blog has received recognition from entities like the online publication of The American College of Physicians, the online site of The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, the online site of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, FoxNews.com, the medical website Better Health, and even iTunes. Thanks for checking out my blog!

Dr. A Show Tonight!

Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 9pm ET

Hope you can join us tonight for Doctor Anonymous Show 145 when our guest will be Drew Griffin from the Wound Care Education Institute. You can see the full preview post here. This is a great clinical topic for tonight's show. The area of wound care is a field that is going to be more and more needed in the future - especially with the tragic explosion of diabetes that is happening right now....

Ever wonder what it's like inside one of those Hyperbaric Chambers for wound care? Well, I found this video where Drew takes us inside one of these chambers. (Also check out the video promo for the show below - make sure you watch the entire video - just sayin hehe)

If you are new to the show, I encourage you to catch us live. There is a great chat room that also goes on. You can even see my shining face on the webcam. In addition, you can call into the show to say hello. Can't catch us live? That's ok. You can listen anytime after the show as it is saved as a podcast so you can listen anytime!

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 "Play/Chat" button. Then, of course, press the "Play/Chat" button.

Dr. A Show 145 Preview: Drew Griffin

This week, Drew Griffin is our guest for Doctor Anonymous Show 145. I've known Drew for a couple of years now in the medicine and social media community. Drew works with the Wound Care Education Institute and he himself is a Clinical Wound Care Specialist Nurse which I only kind of knew on a peripheral basis. Then, I was able to meet Drew in person at Podcamp Ohio 2009 and we had a great discussion about his job and about our thoughts on how medicine and social media intersect. (You'll see that in the picture above. In the video below, you'll see us just being silly at podcamp)

Drew and I also had a great discussion about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and how that can help in wound care. Hopefully, we'll be able to talk about that a little bit as well. I encourage you to check out the "About Drew" page on his blog, which is pretty impressive. He also has interesting "geek" credentials, in that he describes himself as "A former Education Specialist Trained by eBay, Drew has taught individuals, businesses and organizations how to integrate eBay based commerce and utilize Social Media tools to connect with their communities by delivering value."

So, I hope you'll be able to join us live on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 9pm Eastern Time for Doctor Anonymous Show 145. For those who may be new to the show, there is a chat room during the show. You can also call in to say hello. There is even a webcam so that you can see me do the show live before your very eyes. Don't forget to become a Facebook Fan of the show. Hope to see you for this week's show!