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• Dr. John Halamka shares his thoughts on dangerous mushrooms in the Northeast US.
• From the Stanford ER, a horrifying story of a colony of cockroaches living in a patient’s leg. (via KevinMD)
• NYU starts a medical broadcast on satellite radio.
• Firefox 3.0 has been released! I upgraded this week, and it’s definitely faster with several small improvements. The interface is largely unchanged, however.
• Dr. Sandeep Jauhar’s essay on discontent among doctors rocketed to #1 on the New York Times most emailed list this week.

Recently, [Dr. Bhupinder Singh, an internist] confessed, he has been thinking about quitting medicine altogether and opening a convenience store. “Ninety percent of doctors I know are fed up with medicine,” he said.

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