This is the alter-ego to the Grand Rounds post on my “regular” blog: More Musings (of a Distractible Kind). OK, I guess it’s more id than ego.
Here are the rounds not so serious
There is nothing grand or mysterious
It’s just posts submitted
To limerick committed
With poet who’s mildly delirious.
1. Swedish Meatball Surgery, Part XVI – Insureblog
If down to the ground floor you’re speedin’
Here’s wisdom that you should be heedin’
Your trip may be final
If fractures are spinal
Especially if you live in Sweden
2. Study Finds Wide Variation in Reoperation Rates after Lumpectomy - Medical Lessons
The next post will make you disgusted
If cancer to surgeons you’ve trusted
For those who’ve been through it
May have to re-do it
Why can’t the bad doctors get busted?
3. UCEM Position Statement On Alcohol And Idiocy - Life in the Fast Lane
A study both shrewd and methodic
Reflects upon neurons necrotic
To keep your brain thinking
You might ponder drinking
To guard against words idiotic
4. The Soundtrack of Loss – MS Renegade
A tune born from distant guns’ firing
Brought praise from a public admiring
A gifted musician
A fatal condition
Ring out with a note most inspiring
5. The Cost of Shopping Around for Health Care - The Colorado Insurance Insider
If you want help for your condition
Be careful from whom you petition
Advice that they offer
May fill up their coffers
They may be a doctored physician
6. Mindfulness in Palliative Care – ACP Hospitalist
The doctors who care for the dying
The nurses who comfort the crying
To face life’s unfairness
It takes self-awareness
Just be who you are without trying
7. “Do Not Resuscitate” Orders as Body Art - ACP Internist
A mark on the skin made for viewing
Is what all the cool kids are doing
Now some who are older
Are getting quite bolder
With “DNR” wishes tattooing
8. Channeling Your Inner Aretha Franklin – Advoconnection Blog
The elderly feel disaffected
While feeling their needs are neglected
They don’t find it funny
When they are called “honey”
They simply want to be respected
9. Letter to an Uncaring Entity – Northwest Transplant
A letter that’s filled with frustration
Reflects on the mood of the nation
For those with the purses
are telling our nurses
That drugs require authorization
10. Walking the Walk – Life is a Many Zebra’d Thing
Can’t count those carbs? You’re pathetic!
Fall on the floor? Call the medic!
You’ll never outwit it
You just should admit it
That horrible name: diabetic.
11. Yacht Medicine – Glasshospital
The lives of the wealthy are fraught
With sorrows their money has bought
But when health is failing
They’ll find there’s smooth sailing
From doctors who’ll come to their yacht
12. Friday Reflection: The risks of looking and doing so much – Dr. John M
A doctor with much to be losing
Considers the roads he’s been choosing
For sometimes it’s best
To forego the test
The choices are getting confusing
Thanks to the writers so clever
Who made my job easier than ever
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