Hospitals and labs have been high-tech for half of a century, but practitioners -- not so much until now. With PDAs and smartphones, the tech has made it all the way clinician at the "point of service." Smartphones like the Iphone 4 and Droid now offer a dizzying array of medical apps for PAs, [...]
Health Care Reform At the end of this post, you'll find a a fine summary of the recently passed Health Care Reform law, brought to you by the Kaiser Family Foundation. It's a cartoon narrated by Cokie Roberts (yes, the Cokie Roberts from the news shows), and explains the basics of the law in about [...]
Does the image above represent art or medicine? I'll let you decide. Either way, as a PA student, you may be able to make a diagnosis just from the image. Our class was just tested on our first run-through of opthalmology. It's a fascinating area of medicine, and one in which a [...]
Quick update: I'm back in my home state after a very fun, very exhausting trip to see one of my college classmates get married. I'll be home around 10 PM, with PA training classes back in session bright and early at 8AM. Needless to say, I'll need some caffeine. The word is that we are [...]
Hey, everybody. I'm posting an awesome video lecture by a researcher named Bonnie Bassler. Bassler is a molecular biologist at Princeton University. In 2001, she discovered that bacteria use a form of group communication that researchers now call quorum sensing. It's like birds in a flock somehow knowing which way to turn all at once. [...]
