Grand Rounds Vol. 4 No. 27

Grand Rounds Vol. 4 No. 27 is up at Monash Medical Student. Grand Rounds is a blog carnival showcasing the best of the week’s posts from the medical blogosphere, as chosen by a different host each week. This week’s selection is an in-depth look at the medical blogosphere: I counted 30 posts listed! Here are my favourites:

Dr Schwab at SurgeonsBlog discusses the use of heat treatments in Hot Stuff.

In The Edge Musings of a Distracted Mind posts about two patient encounters, ending the post with: “It is nice to feel liked and important, but you always need to remember that the edge of the cliff may await you in the next exam room.”

Ijeoma Eleazu at Health Observances discusses poly-medicine in Celebrity Drug Overdoses - Who’s Really To Blame. It seems as if poly-medicine which he describes as “using multiple physicians to get medications and not letting one doctor know what the other might be doing by withholding that information” is a gray line away from polypharmacology where one doctor prescribes multiple drugs for the same problem. Polypharmacology is becoming more widely accepted as a good way forward for Fibromyalgia patients, the idea being to try to avoid the side effects of large doses (which people with Fibro seem to be more susceptible to) whilst getting good symptom management by approaching the problem from more than one angle. This post highlights the need for polypharmacology patients to be closely monitored.

The next edition of Grand Rounds will be hosted by GruntDoc.