JP's Internal Medicine Page

I'm an internal medicine doctor working as a nocturnist. Sometimes I like to make things with python but most of my life is medicine and raising my young family. I have many posts about teaching my toddler to read at a younger age than is probably wise.

Predict Survival in Advanced Cancer

Other Things I've Made:
ECG Viewer Bobcat Mountain Text Adventure Demo

Medical Blogs I Like:
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog ECG Maven The Number Needed to Treat

Blog Postings:

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Where are the Internal Medicine Blogs Hiding?

I've been reading medical blogs for a couple of years and it's been interesting how all the online medical education initiative seems to be carried by Emergency Medicine doctors.  One can see in my own links of blogs that most of them are EM physicians.  I've tried to look for blogs by hospitalists or nocturnists but google shunts me to industry publications (Like "The Hospitalist").  Where are the independent IM blogs and why isn't Internal Medicine more prominent in the #FOAMED trend? 

The reason for the eminence of EM in the online FOAMED movement is multifactorial and I don't know enough about the history of the various blogs (Like Life in the Fastlane, EM Lit Review, etc...) to make an informed comment. An argument can be made that the stereotype of the ED doc's mind having limited concentration and large volumes of distractions fits conveniently into the scope of the internet.  Another stereotype is that they are more extroverted and would thus be more likely to post things for everyone to see. Therefore, one could say that their specialty is uniquely suited for this sort of dissemination of information.  This is just pop-psychology and probably garbage.







Monday, November 16, 2015

Bobcat Mountain

This is a multiplication flashcard game that I made for my youngest sister a couple years ago.  There's a lot of inside jokes/humor in this that probably won't make sense to anyone but it's probably the most complete "game" I've ever made.

The link is to a .rar file which will need to be unzipped with something like WinRar or some other packaging program.  After it is unzipped double click on bobcatmath.exe and it should work (Windows only).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bu8ctcutj10t9p0/BobcatMath.rar?dl=0

Any questions, comments, critiques? I'd love to hear from people at jpmax7 at gmail.com