Chiropractic legal challenges to the physical therapy scope of practice: Anybody else taking the ethical high ground?

 Here is an editorial by Peter A. Huijbregts, PT, MSc, MHSc, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, FCAMT, published in v. 15 (2) of the Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy.
He ends his editorial with the questions, Are there any chiropractors out there willing to join the only ethically defensible position and help end these skirmishes about scope [...]

Computer prediction: 1999 A.D.

Take a look at a prediction made in a 1967 film entitled 1999 A.D., by the Philco-Ford Corporation. Features include online banking (done by the husband, of course), online shopping, flat screens, networked computers, sophisticated communications and domestic surveillance.  Check out the facial expressions on the husband and wife, and the catchy music!
Here is a clip [...]

Evaluating complex healthcare systems: A critique of four approaches

    From the latest issue of Evidence-based Complementary & Alternative Medicine (eCAM), an Open Access journal:
Boon H, MacPherson H, Fleishman S, Grimsgaard S, Koithan M, Norheim AJ et al. Evaluating complex healthcare systems: A critique of four approaches. eCAM 2007; 4(3):279-285.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to bring clarity to the emerging conceptual and [...]

Reinventing CME: The role of the care pilot in the medical group practice

   Here is an interesting article from the October/December 2007 issue of the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management:
Greene BR, Filerman GL. Reinventing CME: The role of the care pilot in the medical group practice. J Ambul Care Manage 2007; 30(4):283-290.
Abstract: This article recommends that the content of traditional continuing medical education be changed significantly to [...]

Chiropractor and MD Interaction

  From the October/December 2007 issue of the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management:
Allareddy V, Greene BR, Smith M, Haas M, Liao J. Facilitators and barriers to improving interprofessional referral relationships between primary care physicians and chiropractors. J Ambul Care Manage 2007; 30(4):347-354.
OBJECTIVE: Findings from recent studies suggest that there are poor interprofessional referral relationships between [...]

Search with Blackle and save energy (maybe)

  Are you looking for ways to save energy? Did you ever think that you could save energy when you search with Google? Well, neither did I, until I came across Blackle. Here is some background:
Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives [...]

Really, really bad slide presentations

We have all endured these. Have a look at comedian Don McMillan’s take on slide presentations. (Thanks to Sue Pelletier for this.)

Read this blog entry entitled Short scientific talks for dummies, from Respectful Insolence, who also wrote A field guide to biomedical meeting creatures, part 2: Poster time! Hilarious!
And if you still haven’t had enough, [...]

10 Simple Rules (for research scientists) Collection (PLoS)

  From Philip E. Bourne, Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology, here is a collection of editorials intended to provide a quick, concentrated guide for mastering some of the professional challenges research scientists face in their careers. All PLoS (Public Library of Science) journals are Open Access journals. This page updated December 10, 2007.

Erren TC, Cullen P, [...]

Brand names make it the OED!

  It’s fascinating to peruse the new words added to the OED. (Here are the words added in June 2007; and added in September 2007.)  Brand names often enter the language as generic terms, and I’ve listed a few of them below. (I wonder who they have in mind with the word “flip-flopper”. And what on [...]

Should eponyms be abandoned?

   The September 1, 2007 issue of BMJ contains a feature entitled Should eponyms be abandoned? Alexander Woywodt and Eric Matteson wrote the Yes response, and Judith A Whitworth the No response.
Excerpt from Should eponyms be abandoned? Yes:
The Oxford English Dictionary defines an eponym as a person . . . after whom a discovery, invention, [...]