Wow…a big thank you to everybody out there in the medical blogosphere
…at 01:00 this morning, our 5,000,000th unique visitor tuned in…
Life in the Fast Lane started as a simple emergency medicine blog back in 2009. The aim was to produce medical education updates through social media, to develop and detail clinical cases, to review the critical care literature and put a lighter spin on some of the nuances of medical politics.
Despite some frustrations and set-backs with a Google blacklisting, server failures and generally poor coding on my behalf…we are still here. We will continue to add to the collection of 4000 pages, articles, comments and cases whilst rolling out some new FREE educational resources in the very near future with the GMEP and Image bank to be launched in June…
On behalf of the entire Life in the Fast Lane crew - Thank you for your amazing support!
About Mike Cadogan
Congratulations Mike and Chris, and everyone else involved in this fantastic resource. Looking forward to getting further daily doses of LITFL as it goes onwards and upwards!
Thanks so much for your support Andrew
…a labour of love -- but worth it in the end!
Mike
Amazing effort Mike and Chris (and team) -- LITFL just continues to educate and entertain with its own unique style. I feel very lucky to have seen its early evolution at close quarters, and still look forward each week to having my mind challenged by your posts.
Thanks Trevor
Your support through the development of this project has been amazing.
Really looking forward to pushing the boundaries even further in the coming months
Mike
Cheers Trevor -- of course there are little bits of all of our teachers in this -- some more than others!
C
“If you still think medical blogging is not worth your time, think again. Congratulations to LiTFL for 5,000,000 visitors!” http://goo.gl/QimUu
Congratulations, Mike! Well-deserved. LiTFL is not only unique in content but in style too. It’s also a beacon of hope. It shows not only that medical blogging can be done, but that it can be done successfully and have a worldwide impact.
Wow
Thank you so much for the high praise!
The team will take your kind words and use them to drive forward with the medical education revolution!
Mike
Thanks Dr Ves!
C
Hi Chris, this is a wonderful resource which I point people to. I also use this site to demonstrate the benefits of web 2.0 technologies to clinicians who are wary about using these tools.
One thing I’d like to ask -- have you considered doing a journal club type post where you critically appraise an article?
Fantastic work all round!
Regards,
Catherine Voutier
Clincial Librarian
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Thanks Catherine!
There are a lot of other people with blogs that are based on journal article reviews -- the best being the likes of:
resus.me
the poison review
EM Lit of Note
The NNT
Emergency Medicine Ireland
Keeping Up with EM
PedEM Morsels
… among others.
We try to highlight the best and most interesting of these in either the LITFL Review (which is out of action until Kane gets an internet connection again!) and the R&R in the FASTLANE posts.
I do have plans to make an emergency medicine and critical care journal club hub that organises and links to relevant EBM and journal club resources around the world.
Watch this space! (as always)
Chris
Congrats on all the success!! You folks certainly deserve it after all the hard work you’ve put into making this the premier one-stop emergency medicine destination on the internet.
Cheers Vince
BTW your blog is looking awesome!
http://medialapproach.wordpress.com/
C
so cool. well done.
cheers bongi
getting ready for the next south africa trip
will try to get some posts out from your part of the world next
mike
Mike and Chris
My heartiest of congratulations to the two of you and your team! Anyone who has ever blogged only has to look at your accomplishment and be amazed. Again, my best and hopefully you are having a toast this evening to such a successful endeavor.
Hats off,
Jim
Thanks Jim
I guess one of the most of the most important things I have learned from blogging…if you love doing something -- and you don’t completely suck at doing it…keep doing it
…until somebody tells you to stop
Hopefully the fact that we are still going strong will inspire others to enter the blogging fray
Once again -- thanks for your continued support
Mike
The corollary being -- if you’re bad at something… don’t do that thing!
C
Many humble thanks Jim!
C
Félicitations, succès mérité, le site est unique en son genre et une véritable mine d’or
Seeing what you guys were doing here inspired myself and at least a few others I know to start writing our own blogs as well, so thanks for the continued inspiration.