Loblogomy

• I've been in more body cavities this month than Tiger Woods. (And by that I mean I did a lot of paracenteses and thoracenteses.) 15:20:12, 2010-04-30
• http://bestc.am/pdGcQ WTF is this? And will it cure cancer? 20:37:29, 2010-04-27
• New post: Weekly Twitter Archive for 2010-04-18 to 2010-04-24 http://www.aaronlogan.com/blog/archives/2010/04/25/696/ 20:20:56, 2010-04-25
• Stuck at the hospital while my wife and baby enjoy a picnic at Shoreline Park on this beautiful, sunny (or so I've heard) day. 13:57:37, 2010-04-25

• RT @echeng Be sure to download Lonely Planet city guides for free until end of today (GMT) http://ech.cc/cCePJG 22:55:04, 2010-04-22
• New Space Telescope Delivers First Mind-Blowing Video of the Sun | Wired Science | Wired.com http://ow.ly/1C3w8 22:50:26, 2010-04-22
• Oh, to be a baby in a jumperoo. Such pure, unadulterated, carefree bliss… 20:18:24, 2010-04-20
• New post: Weekly Twitter Archive for 2010-04-11 to 2010-04-17 http://www.aaronlogan.com/blog/archives/2010/04/18/695/ 20:22:10, 2010-04-18
• At Gary Danko for the wife's b-day. Hoping for a flavorgasm. 18:10:03, 2010-04-18

• How to print from an iPad. http://bit.ly/bLsefI /via @Brilliantcrank 03:12:06, 2010-04-15
• Attending's making me wait for her to do all her billing for the day before I present a patient. I would never do this to a trainee. 17:36:15, 2010-04-14
• Thalidomide's really made a comeback! It's used to treat myeloma and myelofibrosis; also critical for making dachshunds and Welsh corgis. 08:20:58, 2010-04-14
• Nothing like having to come in at 5:30 to deal with respiratory distress when I myself am having respiratory distress. Damn cold. 06:37:57, 2010-04-14
• @CatchTheBaby I don't think @Stanford knows anything about what goes on in Stanford Hospital, plus I'm the 1st beta tester. Yes, it's true. in reply to CatchTheBaby 06:36:47, 2010-04-14
• Stanford IT came through: Full EMR and radiography access on the iPad! The future is now. 19:58:37, 2010-04-13
• Patient neologism of the day: "Asspheresis." 11:03:20, 2010-04-13
• You know that viscous green liquid from Odwalla that looks exactly like a trip to Mexico gone way wrong? Well… it's actually quite tasty. 21:26:24, 2010-04-12
• New post: Weekly Twitter Archive for 2010-04-04 to 2010-04-10 http://www.aaronlogan.com/blog/archives/2010/04/11/694/ 20:20:11, 2010-04-11

• Also, I found out that two of my nurse buddies are smokers, so I spent some time chiding them as is appropriate for an oncologist. 19:52:04, 2010-04-10
• Today: rounded 2x, wrote 20 PNs, 4 d/c summaries, 1 adm H&P, spoke w/ 3 consults, wrote 25 pts orders and did 6L paracent. Finally going hm. 19:43:00, 2010-04-10
• Today, I received an encouraging response from Stanford's CTO about getting access to our EMR on the iPad. Hopefully will be a reality soon! 19:24:54, 2010-04-10
• After a session of heavy typing today, I have one major complaint about the iPad keyboard: no tab key. 15:58:51, 2010-04-09
• iPad autocorrection learns impressively fast. Eg, if you use unique words twice it then autocompletes if you type the first few letters. 15:55:40, 2010-04-09
• Aside from taking notes, though, the iPad is pretty useless in areas without wifi. I sense a 3G iPad purchase in my future. 09:53:21, 2010-04-09
• Carried nothing but my iPad (in an Apple case) to take notes at this conference today. Very liberating. 09:52:42, 2010-04-09
• Tsk, tsk, Hotel Nikko. No wifi available for attendees of this conference. Get with the program. 08:17:55, 2010-04-09
• Headed to San Francisco this morning for the Acute Leukemia Forum. Drug company sponsored so *gasp* I might get a free pen. 06:24:33, 2010-04-09
• Also, the absence of effort-free document syncing between iPad productivity apps and MacOS X apps on laptop/desktop is very unsatisfying. 21:52:16, 2010-04-07
• Pages app on iPad has a MAJOR flaw as a writing tool for scientists — it not only doesn't support endnotes, it deletes them. Unacceptable! 21:49:48, 2010-04-07
• RT @NatureNews: A genetic gift for sushi-eaters http://ff.im/-iGpnA 18:25:09, 2010-04-07
• @bolopan I've always had to remove my laptop from its bag. I think this article says that with iPad I won't have to do that, so this is new. in reply to bolopan 05:04:07, 2010-04-07
• TSA Says Travelers Can Leave Apple Tablet In Their Bags http://ow.ly/1vp7I 20:17:39, 2010-04-06
• Expect to hear your children taunting their peers with: "My omic is better than your omic. Neener, neener, neener." 09:06:48, 2010-04-06
• We have entered the era of genomic vs transcriptomic vs proteomic smackdowns. 09:05:57, 2010-04-06
• Finally! A Drobo with an ethernet port! Drobo FS http://ow.ly/1v5wn 06:27:01, 2010-04-06
• @JessicaMah Thanks, Jessica! You did a wonderful job with TEDxBerkeley. Congratulations on putting together such a successful event! #TEDxB in reply to JessicaMah 22:06:50, 2010-04-05
• "We don't support the iPad." Wonder how long I'm going to have to hear that. 19:28:35, 2010-04-05
• One whole work day with the iPad and I still don't have it working with our EMR. The IT people, not surprisingly, were of little help. 19:27:25, 2010-04-05
• EMR just crashed while I was typing an H&P. Entire thing was lost. This "isn't supposed to happen," I can hear IT saying. Yeah, but it did. 15:43:12, 2010-04-05
• Nothing better than leftover Jesus for breakfast the morning after Easter Sunday. Some like to microwave; I prefer straight out of the box. 06:37:00, 2010-04-05
• New post: Eric Cheng at TEDxBerkeley http://www.aaronlogan.com/blog/archives/2010/04/04/686/ 22:13:20, 2010-04-04
• New post: Weekly Twitter Archive for 2010-03-28 to 2010-04-03 http://www.aaronlogan.com/blog/archives/2010/04/04/685/ 20:20:55, 2010-04-04
• @gruber You probably have noticed that Apple's iDisk app isn't even iPad-ready yet. Disappointing, to say the least. in reply to gruber 13:48:13, 2010-04-04
• Recent meeting of the Young Republican Society http://ow.ly/1uuQj 13:43:50, 2010-04-04
• Safari for iPad needs a quick multi-touch gesture for "close this tab and take me back to the immediate preceding tab". 11:08:19, 2010-04-04
• Twitter needs to stop automatically serving up the mobile version to iPads. With this screen, everything should be the real thing. 11:02:15, 2010-04-04
• Nothing can sink the spirits of a man home alone with his baby faster than an empty diaper cabinet at 'poopy time'. 10:46:31, 2010-04-04
• http://bestc.am/dkSV2 TED Break: Magic, Chocolate, and Dead Brains #TEDxB 09:47:16, 2010-04-04
• I think Steve Jobs travelled into the future just to get the battery technology for the iPad. Been using it for hrs and still >50% capacity. 09:14:53, 2010-04-04

This weekend, I had the great pleasure of attending TEDxBerkeley. My pal, Eric Cheng, gave a wonderful talk about frontiers of discovery in the shallows of the world’s largely unexplored oceans. Eric has posted a video of his talk and I encourage you to watch it — great message and, of course, lots of eye candy. I also took a few stills, which are linked below. Nothing high quality since my SLR is out of commission right now and all I had was a point-and-shoot.

• In case you were wondering, iPad really is the best browsing-the-web-while-on-the-John experience you'll ever have. 23:55:41, 2010-04-03
• What a day! Heard some inspiring talks at #TEDxB and now I get to spend the evening exploring a device that will change life as we know it. 22:52:54, 2010-04-03
• I wonder how many ppl gave me the muzzle on Facebook in response to my #TEDxB related Twitterrhea. 22:45:31, 2010-04-03
• RT @agoldfisher I dont feel as passionate about berkeley traffic as i do about #tedxb 18:39:52, 2010-04-03
• Nothing left of that piano but a smoking heap of wood chips, bent wire, and ivory dust after Eric Lewis finished playing. Dude rocks. #TEDxB 18:34:51, 2010-04-03
• Hulk smashes bridges. Eric Lewis smashes pianos (but oh so harmoniously). #TEDxB 18:33:34, 2010-04-03
• .@echeng the only thing more mindblowing than #TEDxB is gunshots to the head. in reply to echeng 15:12:27, 2010-04-03
• Have to stop playing. iPhone battery is dying. Wonder if I can put an iPad battery in this thing. 10 hours of use sounds awfully nice… 15:11:00, 2010-04-03
• Crap. Brad Voytek brought human brains to #TEDxB. You know what that means. Zombies will be here soon. There is such a thing as free lunch. 15:06:09, 2010-04-03
• How many will now put Earthlings as the top identifier on Facebook, following the suggestion of @jilltarter at #tedxb /via @agoldfisher 14:58:54, 2010-04-03
• RT @echeng @pyknosis I wonder if any ETs are streaming the talk #TEDxB Yep, their minds'll be blown when the signal reaches them in 2.5Myrs. 14:58:14, 2010-04-03
• Jill Tarter at #TEDxB: all the work SETI has done so far amounts to taking an 8oz glass, dipping it in the ocean, and looking for fish. 14:48:35, 2010-04-03
• #TEDxB A Doctor challenged the status quo by opening his Google Cal to the public and letting pts book appts. Fred Dust /via @massimopaolini 14:30:43, 2010-04-03
• Running iPhone apps on your iPad is like driving your new BMW on the sidewalk. /via @gruber 14:26:08, 2010-04-03
• Fred Dust at #TEDxB: "Nurses are REALLY good designers. Everything in their environment has been designed against them." 14:23:26, 2010-04-03
• Eric just killed at #TEDxB. Really amazing photos, videos, and message of ocean conservation. Way to go @echeng!! 14:10:10, 2010-04-03
• .@echeng about to go on at #TEDxB 13:51:58, 2010-04-03
• Dan Kraft may, in fact, be a cyborg. Which is why he's able to give three talks in the time of one. #TEDxB 12:25:37, 2010-04-03
• I think Dan Kraft may be in on the conspiracy to replace doctors with robots. #TEDxB 12:23:36, 2010-04-03
• Dan Kraft from Stanford now on stage at #TEDxB 12:00:29, 2010-04-03
• TED does something right by keeping talks short. Good for ADHD. #TEDxB 11:59:21, 2010-04-03
• Man, we were cruising along… Great talk, great talk, great talk… then bam, where's the your time is up light? #TEDxB 11:56:33, 2010-04-03
• For the home viewers, there'll be a livecast here: http://tedxberkeley.org/webcast #TEDxB 06:55:28, 2010-04-03
• Headed up to Cal this am for TEDxBerkeley as a guest of the honorable @echeng, who will be speaking today. #TEDxB 06:53:50, 2010-04-03
• New post: Physicians, patients, friends and Facebook http://www.aaronlogan.com/blog/archives/2010/04/03/676/ 01:23:15, 2010-04-03
• iPad internals. Incredible engineering. http://ow.ly/1uh79 00:22:25, 2010-04-03
• I don't usually go ga-ga over cars, but today I saw a matte black Maserati GranTurismo ( http://ow.ly/1ugJP ) in Palo Alto. Simply gorgeous. 23:21:37, 2010-04-02
• I've been hearing it for 12 years, but I still think Taiwanese sounds like Ewok. 22:20:37, 2010-04-02
• Just saw a UPS truck and my heart rate went up a little. Alas, no early iPad delivery. 19:14:09, 2010-04-02
• http://bestc.am/x5ZL8 Boring, but satisfying. 16:53:05, 2010-04-02
• RT @theta_aquarii Who spends the most on armed forces? (Maybe not who you think.) http://is.gd/b9UT8 21:52:08, 2010-04-01
• The only good thing about April being here already is: 2 days 'til iPad day! 06:19:10, 2010-04-01
• Back on service today. Meh. 06:17:21, 2010-04-01
• I think my baby is frustrated with being, essentially, an invalid. 20:56:19, 2010-03-31
• Yes, baby, I can see that you're frustrated and about to unleash your fury. What do you want me to do about it? 18:53:36, 2010-03-30
• Glad I ordered my iPad early so I won't be left empty-handed
  & frowny-faced on 4/3, when all the cool kids get theirs. http://ow.ly/1rYfX 21:26:03, 2010-03-28
• New post: Weekly Twitter Archive for 2010-03-21 to 2010-03-27 http://www.aaronlogan.com/blog/archives/2010/03/28/672/ 20:20:06, 2010-03-28

Every so often, a patient or family member of a patient will request “friendship” on Facebook. It has always felt awkward to me, and each successive time it happens, it becomes increasingly difficult to say, “Well, this is just some random request — I’ll ignore it.”

So, having now thought about this issue quite a bit, I’ve decided I should have a formal policy about how to handle such requests.
Read the rest of this entry »

• @kidney_boy Poignant. in reply to kidney_boy 08:46:12, 2010-03-27
• @macaby Not quite, but might as well be. (I expect zombies to munch on my brains at any moment.) in reply to macaby 02:25:24, 2010-03-27
• Wonderful. The only available call room is in the spooky part of the hospital. 02:06:20, 2010-03-27
• Just did our taxes and now I must prescribe myself some Zofran. 17:34:34, 2010-03-26
• Still too many nukes, but nice work!: Obama, Russian President Medvedev to sign new nuclear arms treaty – latimes.com http://ow.ly/1rgv5 08:36:57, 2010-03-26
• So, when is someone going to make writetosteve.com? http://ow.ly/1r661 23:56:09, 2010-03-25
• The GOP really has so much to be proud of these days. Way to go gentlemen! http://ow.ly/1r2kg 18:38:29, 2010-03-25
• I spent so much time on the phone with nurses last night, it's like the heydays of phone sex all over again, oh god I've said too much. 08:18:22, 2010-03-25
• 58 pages overnight. And now I'm twitching. 07:51:16, 2010-03-25
• 70 y/o male w/ recurrent lymphoma, end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis, & st 3 heart failure… still asks for Levitra. Gotta love vets. 18:06:08, 2010-03-24
• NYTimes: In Health Care Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality http://s.nyt.com/u/QiW 08:08:11, 2010-03-24
• Only the US government could come up with something so unnecessarily complicated. http://ow.ly/1qiIo 07:33:44, 2010-03-24
• @acronis Not helpful, since you don't have a Mac version. in reply to acronis 07:26:05, 2010-03-24
• @DrVes A bit too expensive. (Basically, same price as Dropbox, which runs on S3). Looking for something <$100 per year for up to 200GB. in reply to DrVes 20:04:52, 2010-03-23
• @echeng All my mission-critical files are automatically backed up to Dropbox via symlinks, but Dropbox is too expensive for complete backup. in reply to echeng 19:54:04, 2010-03-23
• Looking for an off-site data backup strategy (to complement local redundant back-up). Anyone have experience with Mozy vs Crashplan on Mac? 18:51:17, 2010-03-23
• If a single stranded circular DNA pig virus with a 1.8Kb genome containing 6 open reading frames doesn't kill you it'll make you stronger 23:45:13, 2010-03-22
• A vaccine my infant son just received has been pulled from the market for containing porcine circovirus. Neat! http://ow.ly/1pH9j 23:40:53, 2010-03-22
• Wish I could get a refund on all the hrs of my life I've spent writing electrolyte repletion orders. No reason a computer couldn't do this. 22:43:49, 2010-03-22
• Improving camera phone light capture and image quality with quantum technology http://ow.ly/1puz4 21:50:02, 2010-03-22
• "The emotional core of opposition to reform was blatant fear-mongering, unconstrained by facts or any sense of decency." http://ow.ly/1pFdk 20:58:07, 2010-03-22
• Can't wait until I can order 1gm of VancoBot Q12. 20:23:47, 2010-03-22
• Nanobot therapies aren't a reality yet, but we're getting closer. http://ow.ly/1puuE 20:22:55, 2010-03-22
• Amazing animated conversation with John Lennon (Youtube) http://ow.ly/1ptIG 20:05:02, 2010-03-22
• http://bestc.am/goku Avery did his part for the Taiwanese write in campaign 19:43:32, 2010-03-22
• I wonder how Steve Jobs likes being compared to a whippet (a slender dog)? http://ow.ly/1pr4g 13:35:05, 2010-03-22
• Hilarious: Grab Your Gonads! http://ow.ly/1pqZ6 13:25:03, 2010-03-22
• @sween So are the pandas, after reading all that. in reply to sween 09:15:07, 2010-03-22
• So when Limbaugh leaves the country over health care reform, does he just inflate himself with hot air and float away? http://ow.ly/1pcQ4 23:18:18, 2010-03-21
• When those idiots harm themselves by banging their heads against the wall they'll at least have insurance to cover their ER visits. 23:15:35, 2010-03-21
• Man, sure are a lot of drama queens out there tonight bitching about how health care reform is the end of freedom and some such… 23:13:30, 2010-03-21
• Her: What does T&A mean?
  Me: In medicine, it means tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. In life, it means tits and ass.
  Her: No, T.N.A. 11:17:32, 2010-03-21
• Every time I turn around this kid has myelinated another neuron. We now have bimanual hand-eye coordination! 08:58:40, 2010-03-21

Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo has released a new search app for the iPhone called Sketch-a-Search. It’s a neat idea — you sketch an area on a map and you will be presented with restaurants in that area. I just downloaded the app and gave it a test drive. Looks like they need to do some further refinement!