saturday ramble and reading: a few MedGadget Medical Weblog winners

the 2009 medGadget awards are in, and I'd like to recommend reading a few of the blogs I read, and was happy to see win in this contest.

from medGadget:

"The winner of the Best Medical Weblog of 2009

is Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog. Gary used to be a professional health reporter. He is now a professor of journalism at University of Minnesota, focusing on medical reporting. Gary has become renowned for his critique of media's coverage of health care topics. And that's what his blog is mostly about: checking and correcting the weak, erroneous, and misleading reporting of medical science and industry on TV and in newspapers. We'd like to congratulate Gary on picking up the top prize in this year's Medical Blog Awards!

2009's Best Literary Medical Weblog

is StorytellERdoc. As the title implies, the blog is written by an ER physician conveying to us the stories from his emergency department. What sets this blog apart is the personal nature of the narrative, and how this anonymous author's life story often finds parallels in the patients that he sees. If you'd like to get an idea for what it's like to be an emergency clinician in one of America's urban hospitals, StorytellERdoc will be happy to tell you.

Best Patient's Blog of 2009.

Wheelchair Kamikaze is the blog of a fearless Manhattanite with Multiple Sclerosis. Marc, the author, covers MS news and what life is like to live with the debilitating disease. However, this blog certainly isn't all about his affliction. In a lot of ways, it's more about what is peripheral and outside of MS, simply from his point of view. Mark's YouTube videos, shot from a camera attached to his wheelchair, give a hair-raising idea of what it's like to be behind the wheel, and having a biting personality, while on a mission hurtling down Manhattan's crowded sidewalks."

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All 3 are great blogs, definitely worth reading!

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today is bright and sunny, the grass is sparkling with frost, and the dog just pawed the door to come back inside. time for another cup of coffee before hitting the road to take my daughter on an outing. enjoy the little things, because life can change that quickly, where the little joys in life have so much more meaning. sometimes, the mundane tasks can end up being treasured memories of the future.