May 2008
1 post
I just went through...
I just went through Google Health today for the first time and it seems easy to use however there are somethings that are missing that might be helpful to a physician. Those things include a patient’s past medical histories, their family history, and social histories, which we often take during our initial interview. It also seems like the database has no way to time and date notes...
May 20th
March 2008
2 posts
Mar 7th
RITE of passage
My mindless memorization fest is finally over and now I can focus on fellowship apps, research and other various projects including putting together a lego version of the SDF-1 with full transforming abilities(see above). I’m in the process of putting together a plan of attack for this project. Any ideas?!?!? I also have obtained a wii which took a week longer than I expected…from...
Mar 7th
January 2008
12 posts
Mechanical Wild Animal Park
These guys are building a bunch of “Jules Verne” -esque mechanical creatures to put together a wild animal park…kind of like a safari of robo-animals. Really cool… ]]>
Jan 31st
Jan 23rd
Drug Company Swag
I thought this (click for the article) was an interesting article on the swag (aka “mostly” junk, pens, clock, post-it notes etc…) that drug companies hand out to us on a daily basis. But it made me wonder how much paper they must shell out to us too. Most of which ends up in the garbage and not even looked at… Rather than having a system wide removal of all things with...
Jan 20th
Jan 16th
Glass Houses and Stone Throwing
Comedian Dimitri Martin made an interesting point and joke with a phrase many neurologists use to assess a patients mental state and that I will surely overthink here. He said that the expression, “people in glass houses should’nt throw stones”, but the policy should be not to throw stones regardless…because throwing stones is just not cool, you could hurt someone. Except...
Jan 16th
Doogie Howser, MD
I just heard that the first “indian-american” was elected Louisiana’s Governor. That’s very cool. I always knew that it would happen someday; I just didn’t think it would happen this soon.  However, I’m a bit intrigued and puzzled by two things in this article and about Jindal. It states that he converted from Hindism to the Catholic faith as a teenager…I...
Jan 14th
Jan 13th
Bad ass car....no, not the nano
This reminds me of a go-cart on steroids…And I’m not talking methylpredinosolone!  
Jan 13th
"Sip Pina Coladas"!!!
This song by Sean Kingston reminded me of simpler times in Las Vegas with the “DBA” -Desi Basketball Association… here’s the video!!! http://youtube.com/watch?v=gkWRx_PyWzc enjoy, The Notorious BIJ
Jan 12th
Welch-Allyn Rocks!!!
I just got back my ophthalmoscope and panoptic scope from welch allyn. Those guys are awesome. They sent me brand new scopes at NO charge. I’m buying everything from those guys…you think they sell cars???  www.welchallyn.com  cheers!  -bijal
Jan 11th
More ridiculous ads (and not in a funny, hilarious...
I saw an ad today asking if I’ve “got excess body fat” (no, actually I need all the body fat I’ve got) and then tells me that fat is “ugly and disgusting.” And then pitches to  have the watcher start a non FDA approved supplement called cylaris, not to be confused with cialis (a drug that wants you to get chubby, but only in a specific location). They should...
Jan 6th
Happy New Year !!!
Happy New Year !!! As tradition has it, one makes resolutions for the year…so here are mine: 1. Rock the RITE (those who know what this is…know what this is…March 1st look out here I come) and finally get into someone’s good graces! 2. Be the next chief resident…yeah I said it… !!!) 3. Finally finish all those damn research projects, hopefully my...
Jan 2nd
December 2007
5 posts
Poker Night
Hey everybody  Had our first poker night at my place. Real high stakes…almost lost my shirt to a couple of crazy ruskies…  max’s new nickname is KGB (ie the character from the movie “rounders”)  lev’s new nickname is phil ivy (you poker guys know who that is…)  my new nickname is broke  cheers,   b ps-stay tuned for the next poker night 
Dec 31st
Medpedia
I signed up for a website called Medpedia.com it’s like Sermo in that it is a social network for physician divided by medical issues. I don’t think it pays like sermo, which isn’t great but atleast I don’t feel like I’m being exploited somehow… Tell me what you think in comparison to Sermo…I couldn’t join Sermo because I’m a lowly resident...
Dec 28th
New Radioshack Ads
Is it really necessary for retailer radioshack to tell me to “Do Stuff”…don’t I get enough of that from my mother?
Dec 28th
Greetings from my iPhone....
Greetings from my iPhone. This is the first of many blogs that I will be dictating through the Jott.com service. Hope it works out. If not, you probably won’t even get this blog. Cheers! listen Powered by Jott
Dec 22nd
My first two cents...
Welcome to the first of hopefully many blogs…
Dec 20th