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Most readers of this blog will take the emergency telephone numbers such as 911, 000, 111 or 999 for granted. These emergency numbers provide security, support and a rapid response in time-critical situations. However, most developing countries do not have the luxury of a centralized emergency telephone number and lack the ability to rapidly respond to medical emergencies.
Multimedix is a secure, online community for registered Australian medical practitioners. MultiMedix.com.au is the first social and professional networking website designed for Australian physicians and has just been launched by Dr Stephen Barnett a GP practising in Bowral, NSW. The site is designed to allow doctors to search the database for friends, colleagues and contacts; [...]
A big, big thank you to all those who voted in the recent Medgadget 2008 Medical Weblog Awards. To be nominated for an award was an a huge compliment, and to win was a great honor – but an honor that must be shared with ALL MedBloggers – those individuals who take time out of [...]
Introducing a new website ‘Medical Update‘ designed to provide Australian medical practitioners with free virtual access to educational conferences and meetings has launched. Medical Update Pty Ltd director Gary Smith said video and power point slides from events from around the country are uploaded on to the site – MedicalUpdate.com.au – where they are easily [...]
It is with honor that I accept the Golden Llama Award from @Doc_Rob of ‘Musings of a distractible Mind‘. Unfortunatley I was unable to place in the ‘medical verse‘ category – and was instead given the award ‘postbribulously’ – and for that I am humbled Lastly, I have to recognize a buddy from the Twitter [...]
Prompted by a series of conversational musings and twitterings the concept of a ‘blogging ecosystem’ became apparent. With the ‘blogging host’ as the primary producer and ‘blog posts’ as distribution seeds – I went in search of the other energy sources necessary to create a fit, healthy and viable blog.
Being new to the MedBlog (Medical WebLog) arena it has taken a while for me to find my blogging feet. Thankfully there are some very handy and helpful articles for newbie MedBloggers, and in this post I attempt to synergistically collate some of the great resources that I have gathered during my foundling submersion in [...]
The polls are now open in the Fifth Annual Medical Weblog Awards. These awards are designed to showcase the best blogs from the medical blogosphere, and to highlight the exciting and useful role medical blogs play in medicine and in society. Best Medical Weblog (Vote here..) Clinical Cases and Images Clinical Correlations The Health Care [...]
Have you ever wondered why an intelligent human being would become a colorectal surgeon? Here is a dip back into the archives from the Canadian duo of George Bowser and Ricky Blue [Bowser and Blue] from the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Colorectal Surgeons in 1995. – The Colorectal Surgeon’s Song
