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		<title>Top 100 Free Medical Software Programs</title>
		<link>http://whitecoatrants.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/top-100-free-medical-software-programs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 13:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;LiveSmarter&#8221; blog came out with a comprehensive list of its votes for the top 100 free software programs for medical professionals.
Lots of good stuff on there, including free medical billing and EMR software for docs and diaries/other programs for patients.
Hat tip to the Healthcare IT Guy.
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		<title>Deborah Peel Central</title>
		<link>http://whitecoatrants.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/deborah-peel-central/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I won&#8217;t go through the whole history in this post, but suffice it to say that SHE started it.
Now I&#8217;m going into Deborah Peel overload. It&#8217;s like this blog is Deborah Peel Central. Dammit, Cap&#8217;n, she can&#8217;t take any more!
I get multiple hits every day from people doing internet searches for &#8220;Deborah Peel.&#8221;
One reader sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Careful What You Listen For &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://whitecoatrants.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/be-careful-what-you-listen-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A patient who was on &#8220;The List&#8221; came to the ED for another bout of &#8220;kidney stones.&#8221;
She had been through several staff physicians before they had discovered that she was gaming the system. The problem with the patient was that she was addicted to Vicodin, but that she also had real medical problems. CT after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six More Things About Me - WhiteCoat Kids Edition</title>
		<link>http://whitecoatrants.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/six-more-things-about-me-whitecoat-kids-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 16:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got tagged by Tex a while back and I&#8217;m running out of things to divulge, so here&#8217;s a feeble attempt using our WhiteCoat parenting skills.
1. WhiteCoat children don&#8217;t lie. We initially started washing their mouths out with soap when they lied. After one WhiteCoat daughter blew bubbles out of her mouth and laughed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There A Psychiatrist In The House?</title>
		<link>http://whitecoatrants.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/is-there-a-psychiatrist-in-the-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 18:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the first three patients who register on your shift are all suicidal, you know the day is shaping up to be a good one.
There wasn&#8217;t too much amusing about them. They all had substance abuse problems and two of them had alcohol levels more than 300. One got mad at me because I admitted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Things You Learn Taking A Temperature</title>
		<link>http://whitecoatrants.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/the-things-you-learn-taking-a-temperature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the aides was taking a little old lady&#8217;s temperature. She was a little demented (the little old lady, not the aide) , so she wasn&#8217;t able to keep the thermometer in her mouth. The aide therefore had to take a rectal temperature.
When the aide put the thermometer in the patient&#8217;s bottom, the patient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Thing Zoos Don&#8217;t Have EMTALA</title>
		<link>http://whitecoatrants.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/good-thing-zoos-dont-have-emtala/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 03:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaaaughhh! It&#8217;s MonkeyGirl&#8217;s drunk uncle!

Wonder what this thing&#8217;s cholesterol is &#8230;
Pictures from Yahoo! News here, here, and here.
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		<title>Interesting Comparison of World Health Care</title>
		<link>http://whitecoatrants.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/interesting-comparison-of-world-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 11:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading a blog on Medscape and someone linked to this site where there is a video documentary comparing health care in the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Switzerland.
A written summary is contained here.
So, assuming that our US population will accept it, and assuming that we can restructure the tort system, which parts of each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child Health Threat - We Have To Act NOW!</title>
		<link>http://whitecoatrants.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/child-health-threat-we-have-to-act-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, many children&#8217;s cough and cold medications were taken off the market because in the 37 years that they have been used (and what I estimate to be billions of doses worldwide), there were “54 reports of deaths in children associated with decongestant medicines made with pseudoephedrine, phenylephrine or ephedrine” and “69 reports of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Physician Woes</title>
		<link>http://whitecoatrants.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/florida-physician-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading this Op-Ed article, can someone remind me why a physician would actually want to practice medicine in Florida?
I was going to put Disney World as a plus until I read the comments on this article (from the same newspaper) calling it &#8220;Dismal World&#8221; and &#8220;Tragic Kingdom,&#8221; and comparing the rides to Viagra - [...]]]></description>
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