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Family Medicine Notes

Jacob Reider is the pioneer of medical blogging. Docnotes, "Occasional Notes from a family physician" have been published since 1999.

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Geeks getting too big?

Population health data is everywhere. You just have to look for it.

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Winning/winning

“Winning” is hard for me to write about. When I applied to medical schools – I didn’t say “I want to win” – I said that I wanted to help keep/make people healthy and successful. “Medicine isn’t a competition” I...

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More on soccer headgear and concussions in soccer

I did some follow-up research today on this … 2008 consensus statement on concussions. (pdf) Sport Concussion Assessment Tool – version 2 (SCAT2) (pdf) – very useful NY Times article (2004) My post from May, 2009 with other references. The...

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Running in Winter: Saran Wrap?

It's cold out there in Smallbany, NY these days - which is making it extra-hard to put on them the running shoes and get out there. Combine that with something that I think my mom gave me (thanks, mom) .....

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Ten years of blogging

Yep - this blog has been around for over ten years. Here's a link to the Internet Archive for one of my first posts. There were actually a few other iterations before this - but I can't find them. The...

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Can an insurance company motivate people to exercise?

Short answer? Not very well. My health insurance company has a program called "blue points" which is supposed to motivate me and my co-workers to exercise. It's a great idea - very poorly applied. Yet another example of the "what...

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FairSoftware

The pitch: Start Your Online App with FairSoftware; Find iPhone Developers; Share Revenue .. an interesting idea.

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Google Wave Invites

Update: I have eight zero of them left .. happy to share to the first eight people who contact me in some way. Sorry they went so fast.

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Madmen yourself

This is silly .. I made a madmen icon of myself. I've never even seen the show (don't tell Melinda!) ..

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Soccer Uniforms

Cousin David took this great pic of Sam playing soccer today. His butt is now officially on the Internet.

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