Browsing the archives for the medical mystery category
Death from a condition that makes even doctors tremble. Veteran U.S. Diplomat Richard Holbrooke died this week of an aortic dissection. The man considered largely responsible for the Dayton Peace Accords, which ended the war(s) in the former Yugoslavia, had an outsized personality in a world usually replete with protocol and bureaucracy (don’t let those [...]
Big happenin’ in Second City! Read all about it! You may remember a couple of previous posts [here and here], in which I asked readers for help in solving a medical mystery. Well, the story got picked up over at KevinMD, “Social Media’s Leading Physician Voice,” and from there, to today’s “Diagnosis” column in [...]
GlassHospital is on vacation this week, writing to you from vibrant Toronto. Toronto is home to the Bata Shoe Museum, well worth a visit if you’re ever here on a Thursday night when admission is free. In addition to a display featuring shoes of Elton John and
NPR has a great blog on their website called “Shots” about current events in health care. Last week Scott Hensley, the main blogger there, posted about a recent article on treatment of prostate cancer from the Archives of Internal Medicine. If you look at the article, you may notice a very small subheading above the article’s [...]
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blogging to bring you this medical “fascinoma” in progress. My friend JZ is currently hospitalized in New England. He has a fever of unknown origin (FUO). I am calling on all House, M.D fans, real M.D’s, and other sleuths/puzzlemasters to help solve this medical mystery. You can get the details [...]