links for 2008-08-16

Were you unlucky enough to miss David Heatley’s appearances on his book tour for My Brain is Hanging Upside Down ? Don’t worry - all is not lost! Find out what I mean after the jump. . .... more

They're the hottest tickets in town. The Mixmag Xmas Party sold out a couple of weeks ago but already tickets are going for £65 a pop on eBay. Check it out . If you wanna get involved in the shenanigans there are still tickets left for the after party which will feature Timo Maas, Santos, the Ketoloco DJs, Zombies Ate My Brain and some very hammered Mixmag staff. The afterparty kicks off at 6am at Egg. Tickets are £10 advance from www.clubtickets.com . We'll see you do... more

So today I was having fun during lunchtime.  The rep from a local oxygen supply company was there to tell us about her new portable oxygen concentrator and she brought cool pens like these . So of course I stuck one on my (growing) forehead and had lunch.  Wouldn’t you?  Of course you would. So now  I have a forehead hickey. technorati tags: Forehead , Hickey ... more

Here ’s the best advice I found with a quick google search we have found that there is some confusion as to how to correctly bill these claims. CPT code 17000, Destruction (eg. laser surgery, electrosurgery, cryosurgery, chemosurgery, surgical curettement), all benign or premalignant lesions (eg. actinic keratoses) other than skin tags or cutaneous vascular proliferative lesions; first lesion, should be billed once for the first such lesion treated, when fo... more

This week’s gem over at the Family Medicine Digital Resource Library is Michael Crouch’s CHD risk estimator with adjustment for family history of CHD.   It’s an excel spreadsheet.  I’d love to see this migrate to the web.  It would be a great public service .. any takers?... more

The grill we bought last year was recalled not long after we bought it.  I didn’t know about the recall untile recently when I went looking for a solution to a different problem that we’re having with the grill. I didn’t find anything on the Internet about our problem - so here’s my contibution.  No - not a medical post, but perhaps this will help save someone’s eyebrows. Our problem was that the grill was leaking at the junction of the gas line to th... more