THIS IS A “STICKY POST” THAT WILL REMAIN AT THE TOP OF THE BLOG TEMPORARILY
MORE RECENT POSTS CAN BE FOUND BELOW
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To those of you who have followed me from my old blog … welcome back.
To everyone who has followed a link to this blog from EP Monthly … welcome.
I go by the pseudonym of WhiteCoat. I’m a practicing ED physician who has a blogging addiction. I started writing a blog called WhiteCoat Rants about a year and a half ago. If you haven’t read anything I’ve written before, I imported about 100 of my better posts from my previous blog into this one so that you have something to do if you’re bored one night. Just click on the “Archives” dropdown tab to the right and pick a month. A couple of my personal favorites were also among my first posts. See Chinese Pager Torture and Mr. Wayne. The most popular post on my previous blog was/is one of my caffeine rants titled Do Not Use These Medical Abbreviations! I repeatedly catch flak for that post, but working in the ED I can take it.
Emergency Physicians Monthly and I decided to combine forces to bring our readers the best of EP Monthly’s written publication and a good look at the medical blogosphere. My old readers can check out all the great articles that EP Monthly has to offer and EP Monthly’s readers can put up with my ranting. Great deal, huh?
You can find out a little more about me in the “About” link up to the right. You can also find a lot of great medical blogs in the “BLOG LINKS” link at the right. I organized them by category, so feel free to forward them to your friends in other specialties. There’s some great writing going on out there. If you have a medical blog and want to be included in the list, just drop a comment in the comments section. I’ll try to update the list regularly.
My last blog overshot any expectations I ever had about readership. I hope that I’ve got what it takes to make this new blog even more successful.
Now it’s time for me to get to work …
Am I still allowed to curse indiscriminately in comments, or shall I temper my native invective?
I was going to joke around and say that you couldn’t use any 4 letter words, but knowing that you’re an English prof, that would be a challenge I’d never live down.
Nice new home. Congratulations!
Congrats on your new digs!!! I am looking forward to following you here and checking out the rest of the ED site.
Chinese Pager Torture is one of my favorite all time posts since reading in the Med Blogosphere for almost 2 1/2 years! HILARIOUS!
My favorite,exquisitely funny concept, by formerly blogging ED Doc -Trench Doc, is the Throckmorton salad bar test: “I give it the old Throckmorton test when I walk up to the salad bar… to the right= no problem, to the left= NO WAY!” “Each man his own compass must be.”
Love the med blogs!
Your new readers are in for a treat if they peruse the Medblogs you have listed.
Have fun WhiteCoat!
What about novellas?
Novellas? Type away.
Liked your post about the holidays, BTW.
Thank you WC.
Ahhh.. novella permission…tis a good thing… because we all know I can’t stop anyway.
I was shocked to see your last post on WCRants. It seems I had just found you not too long ago, and I felt a thud when I read that. I hope I can keep track of where you are. You are too good to lose out here in blogland. Good luck with your move. I could barely keep up with your postings, now I’ll have to worry where you’ve gone off to as well. My best to you, WC.
Do you have a feed for this? I love you, man, but I’ll forget to read if it’s not on my Google Reader. Tried and failed already to add it to my feeds…
You mean like that link to the right that says “RSS” where underneath it says “Posts feed” and “Comments feed”?
Remember – no “double middle fingers”
Duhr, sorry. *Single middle finger and a smile*
I got scared when I read your last post! Your new home is nice – feed added!
Congrats on the new site!
But…we…fear…change…!
“Well, you’re moving on up….
To the Eastside…
To the Deeelux Apartment, in the skyyy…”
Congrats on the new crib!!
A newer reader who has read most of your stuff…Congrats on your move. I love reading all things medicine and someday, I WILL join the ranks as an RN or PA, not sure,yet.
Been a reader of ‘Rants’ for a long time…
Don’t ever leave us Doc……
We need you, and, especially, the system does….
You have been followed to your new home!
“Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends” – Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Glad to find you here. My bankruptcy is over and hospital debts discharged, by the way, and I will never, ever go without health insurance again.
-Sam
Okay, I vote time to take the sticky post down.
I second the motion by Nurse K. I read your blog all the time and it is annoying to scroll past.
OK. OK. I give.
The idea was to leave it up for a month.
Today’s the one month anniversary of the switch. You can still find the post at the beginning of the blog now if you’re feeling sentimental.