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Share | There is no wonder that medicine sees its darkest days since the referendum. CME from a practical standpoint seems non-existent. Meetings are either marketing platforms for drug companies or profit centers for other commercial enterprises. The day university medical schools became self sustaining we lost the historical human values of medicine. It's all about drugs and procedures. Diagnosis threatens to become a lost art. Clinical decision support, CDS and knowledge coupling offer some hope but not at a price that exceeds their benefit or as a profit center for yet another hungry cow feeding off of the healthcare trough.

I am saddened to see KU charge $2,195 for a course that exists entirely in cyberspace, i.e. no overhead.

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January 28, 2013 - April 26, 2013

School: University of Kansas

45 AMA Category 1 CME credits available

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Survey Course of The Field of Health Informatics

The University of Kansas School of Nursing and the Center for Health Informatics is offering the course, Introduction to Health Informatics, as part of the AMIA 10x10 Program.

Spitting Blood the history of tuberculosis

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Book by  Helen Bynum a quick review
Very well written -- in the English style, Spitting Blood encompasses a partial history of medicine as well. Particularly in the early chapters the author chronicles the physician's struggle recognising that the various tubercles and the various organ systems involved with TB were but one disease. The inclusion of historically famous physicians' diagnosis and struggle with consumption / TB, including names such as Boerhaave, Laennec and Koch, makes for delightful reading.

The later chapters go into the re-emergence of TB with HIV and high levels of drug resistance. MDRTB, XDRTB and TDRTB refer to multiple resistant, extensive resistance and resistant to everything cases -- mostly in countries in which the health care system has collapsed. We tend to forget that one out of three in the world are infected with TB, mostly contained, but none the less TB kills 1.4 million a year world wide. There were some 8.7 million new or reactivation TB cases in 2011; it rivals malaria. If you like real pathology and and an infectious disease challenge, this is a must read.|