well, the Fool was digging around the ICD9 coding (an international diagnosis coding standard) and found that they have some pretty unusual ones out there. Here are just a sampling of some: E985.7 Undetermined Paintball Gun Injury E955.7 Sucide by Paintball Gun (you can do that?) V61.6 Illegitimate Pregnancy E920.3 Knife/Sword/Dagger incident (they still have […]

Today, March 16, 2006 was a red letter day for thousands of medical students worldwide! CONGRATULATIONS on finding out where you get to slave away for the next 3-7 years! We hope you got your first choice! Medfools wishes you the best and continued success on your endeavors as an intern and resident! -Fool

So, our Vice President has done it again. He’s had another heart attack! Read the full story at CNN. Oh wait, this time, he’s caused a heart attack, of one of his best friends and supporters! While on a hunting trip for Quayle, I mean quail, the story goes that the Vice President “accidentally” shot […]

In a recent AMA News report state medical boards are reportedly worried about the caliber of graduates as they look to become licensed in the US. Some state medical boards have even created lists of schools from which they will NOT license graduates. “This is becoming a huge issues on a national level and in […]

Allopathic medical schools increased enrollment by 352 students or 2.1% for the 2005-06 beginning academic year. the Assn of American Medical Colleges recomment that schools boost their enrollment by 15% to offset an anticipated shortage in physicians. Until this fall, enrollment had been fairly static for the last 20 years. This year there are 17,004 […]

The Fool has discovered a little study presented in the Sep 7th issue of JAMA: Neurobehavioral Performance of Residents After Heavy Night Call vs. After Alcohol Ingestion. This study took a number of pediatric residents and had them drink alcohol or placebo after a regular workday or post call. They found that post-call resident performace […]