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LabBook July 27, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. The […]
A Dress Rehearsal For Brain Death
In the movies, death in the hospital is usually portrayed as a clear-cut event. A steadily beeping heart monitor changes to a high-pitched drone, the doctor sadly removes his mask, and the family begins to mourn. But in reality, judging when life has truly ended is often a complex and nuanced task. With ventilators, heart […]
When Doctors Don’t Take a Sick Day
Yes, doctors do get sick. Even the most resilient immune systems occasionally succumb to a pesky cold or even flu. Yet, sick days are rare for most docs. An unwavering work ethic is a hallmark of many health professionals. But a new survey finds that when a doctor is sick, staunch dedication can have unintended […]
Teaching the Bedside/Desktop Manner
By Matt Wood Maybe you’ve had this experience at the doctor’s office: Your physician enters the exam room, and instead of asking “What brings you here?” and speaking face to face, he sits down at the computer and starts peppering you with questions, typing away furiously. With the introduction of electronic medical records into clinics, […]
No Senioritis Here: Pritzker Senior Scientific Session 2012
By Rob Mitchum As the weather warms and the flowers bloom in Chicago, it’s a sign that convocation and various other end-of-the-year events are approaching. One springtime tradition for the Pritzker School of Medicine is the annual Senior Scientific Session, where students on the verge of receiving their medical degrees discuss the research project they […]
Poets in White Coats
By Rob Mitchum When a doctor pulls a notepad out of his or her white coat, you might expect them to be writing down a drug prescription. But a recently completed contest thrown by the Prizker School of Medicine suggests that physician might be scrawling down a few lines of verse as well. The first […]
Rock Star Doctors: What Physicians Can Learn from Musicians
By Matt Wood In his 2008 book “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the “10,000-hour rule” to explain what sets extraordinarily successful musicians, athletes and business leaders apart from the rest of us. Being talented helps, but Gladwell said that an aspiring artist or entrepreneur also must put in an enormous amount of time honing their […]
An Educational ECHO for South Side Clinics
By Matt Wood Video conferencing has crossed the threshold from corporate boardroom to the household in the last few years. Anyone with a Skype account or an iPhone can host their own video chats. Now, a group at the University of Chicago Medicine is using video conferencing as a way to train primary care providers […]
(NOT) Playing Games with Sexual Health
By Dianna Douglas Maybe you’re the type of person to see a tiny nonsensical phrase in the credits of a movie and actually dig into it online. Be careful—you might find yourself sucked into a mystery story. Over the course of a week, you get a text message from someone you’ve been mindlessly Googling, you […]
The Invisible Barriers to Women in Science
By Meghan Sullivan On her visit to the University of Chicago earlier this month, Megan Urry gave two very different talks, both backed with empirical evidence and arriving at clear, well-supported conclusions. However, while her afternoon talk to the astronomy department focused on her research of Active Galactic Nuclei, Urry’s earlier talk was on a […]
