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Graham Abra did a nice series on the urea kinetics of dialysis

• Clearance and Kt/V
• Measures of dialysis dose
• eKt/V

This graph from wikipedia allows you to see how different substances concentration in blood varies. Who new that the lowest molar concentration of all was PTH?

General ‘Buck’ Turgidson listening to Premier Kissoff

Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable, postwar environments: one where you got twenty million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed. 

Peter Seller’s best movie?

From If We Don’t Remember Me.

Pay to Play: Should Registered Organ Donors Get Priority as Recipients?

Could fixing (or more realistically improving) organ allocation be this easy?

BiologyMAD

I rewrote large sections if the IVF and Sodium handout. I added Tea and Toast syndrome, more on SIADH and a lot of interactivity. Overall a huge improvement. I used it today with the Beaumont Hospital Family Practice residents and was really pleased. Find the update in the handouts tab.

Great comic on the media and scientific statistics.

Notes from Dr. RW: Nonhepatic hyperammonemias: “—may be underappreciated causes of encephalopathy in hospitalized patients. I recently blogged one example of a nonhepatic hyperammonemia…”