Watch out for those sailors

An amusing news item from the New Orleans States, 23 March 1950 speaks to the cautions of associating with nameless seamen:

Fractures arm, leg in accident
James Garner, 29 years old, 421 S. Galvez, suffered fractures of the right arm and leg when his automobile crashed into a lamp post at St. Peters and S. Diamond early today.

Garner, an LSU medical student, said a sailor whose name he did not know was driving the auto. The sailor fled the scene. Garner was treated at Charity hospital and transferred to Hotel Dieu.

You can view this and other snippets of LSUHSC history in the Louisiana Digital Library’s LSUHSC Newspaper Clippings Collection.

Bookmark Changes

As you may remember the Library converted its links to a Delicious Account back in August. In October, we posted about the social bookmarking phenomenon. The Delicious Links continue their dyamic growth with over a dozen new sites added in the last month. My particular favorite? The Virtual Stethoscope Project. from McGill University.

Elevator Switcheroo

Because of the ongoing tiling, access to the Isché Library will be via elevators #1 & 2 again. These are the elevators closest to the Eye Center Building.

Additionally, the door to the Library will be inaccessible for a few hours while that space is tiled so a temporary entrance has been created adjacent to the regular door location.

Burn the Midnight Oil

Remember the Isché Library will be open until midnight tonight (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday). On Sunday, the Library will open at noon and close again at midnight. Come and get your study on.

Residents need more sleep, says IoM

A report from the Institute of Medicine released on Tuesday morning proposes revisions to medical residents’ duty hours and workloads “to decrease the chances of fatigue-related medical errors and to enhance the learning environment resident training.” The report does not recommend further reducing residents’ work hours from the maximum average of 80 per week set by ACGME in 2003, but rather recommends reducing the maximum number of hours that residents can work without time for sleep to 16, increasing the number of days residents must have off, and restricting moonlighting during residents’ off-hours, among other changes. The committee, which was chaired by Dr. Michael Johns of Emory, estimates that the cost for additional personnel to handle reduced resident work could be roughly $1.7 billion annually.
Read the full report here

Thanks Ram Paragi, for the publication alert!

Global Library of Women’s Medicine

The Global Library of Women’s Medicine is a new free resource featuring over 442 peer-reviewed, full text, searchable chapters on women’s medicine.

“The Global Library of Women?óÔé¼Ôäós Medicine is a unique web library incorporating a range of detailed clinical information across the whole field of women?óÔé¼Ôäós medicine. It consists of 442 main chapters and 53 supplementary chapters, supported by more than 40,000 references, which will be kept permanently up-to-date. The chapters have been written by more than 650 specialists and will reflect some of the very best worldwide opinion. The website has been developed from the six-volume, encyclopedic textbook Gynecology & Obstetrics, which was first published in 1934 and has been edited for the last 30 years by professor John J. Sciarra.”

Though the site is available to the public, medical and health professionals can register for extra features, such as the ability to comment on the text, submit new material, and access videos, medical atlases and laboratory tests.

GLOWM was created in honor of the publisher’s daughter, Abigal Bloomer, who died of breast cancer at age 31.

Use Elevators #3 & 4

To access the Isché Library, please use Resource Center elevators #3 & 4 (the ones closest to Tulane Ave.). Elevators #1 & 2 are unusable for the next few days so that tiling can be completed.

Moving Walls & Tiling

The temporary plywood walls should start moving in the next few days. The new tile for the Library Commons is being placed, so prepare for some changes to the Isché Library entrance.

RefWorks Class next Monday

Join us for another RefWorks class next Monday afternoon. RefWorks is a bibliographic management tool that can format a list of references for you. This class will cover the basics of loading your references into RefWorks from different databases like PubMed, Ebsco & Ovid, organizing your references using folders, and formatting bibliographies.

What: RefWorks Class
When: Monday, December 8th 2-3 p.m.
Where: Ische Library Room 405
Register: email mknapp@lsuhsc.edu

World AIDS Day

December 1st is World AIDS Day. Designated in 1988, this annual observation exists to bring attention to the continuing AIDS epidemic. For additional information, resources, and statistics, check out the following websites:

Additionally, 2008 also marks the 25th anniversary of the NO/AIDS Task Force which dedicated an AIDS Memorial in Washington Square Park over the weekend.

Exam Hours @ the Ische Library

Fall Exam Hours start this weekend. The Isché Library will be open until 12 midnight 7 days a week. Additionally, the Library will open at 12 noon on Sundays. These hours will continue until December 18th.

We’re CLOSED Thurs, Fri, Sat

The Isch?â?® & Dental libraries will be closed Thursday, Friday & Saturday (Nov 27-29th) for Thanksgiving holiday. We will REOPEN Sunday at 1:30pm.

Coming soon!
EXAM HOURS

Isch?â?® Library
Thursday, November 27th — CLOSED — University Holiday
Friday, November 28th — CLOSED — University Holiday
Saturday, November 29th — CLOSED
Sunday, November 30th — OPEN — 1:30 p.m. – 12 midnight

Dental Library
Thursday, November 27th — CLOSED — University Holiday
Friday, November 28th — CLOSED — University Holiday
Saturday, November 29th — CLOSED
Sunday, November 30th — OPEN — 1:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Family Health History & Thanksgiving

Thursday isn’t just Thanksgiving. It’s also the 5th annual National Family History Day, as declared by Acting Surgeon General Steven K Galson, M.D., M.P.H. National Family History Day is part of the Family History Initiative which provides access to a web-based tool called, “My Family Health Portrait.” This tool helps users to organize family history information and then save their history information to their own computer and even share family history information with other family members.

Thanksgiving Hours @ Ische & Dental

Isché Library

Dental Library

Why Does Everything Taste Bad After You Brush Your Teeth?

If you have no idea why we?óÔé¼Ôäóre pondering that question today, go brush your teeth real quick and grab a drink (orange juice, iced tea, beer?óÔé¼ÔÇØanything except water). Awful, isn?óÔé¼Ôäót it?

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19516