MARCO Grand Rounds for December 3, 2006

From Warren, KD4GUA:

This Sunday Grand Rounds we will discuss "ISABEL." Who is she? She is a little girl in England who was misdiagnosed and almost died...her Dad began a program to help doctors make the right diagnosis. It has been very well received and is now on-going in the VA and many teaching hospitals. It is time we all knew about it--its ability to make diagnosis and its cost

I have tried to get hold of Albert Breland KA7LOT MD who has had experience with this program. I hope he can come on board. He was last heard to be in Alaska working for the VA. Bert was a neuro resident of our late President Bob Currier.

If Chip N5RTF or any other MARCO members have experience with Isabel, please be on board Sunday, 10 a.m. Eastern 14.308 (go down to 14.307 if Latin stations antagonistic.)

Good news--Bill Hazell, W4TAD is out of sick bay and home.

MARCO Grand Rounds for November 26, 2006

From Warren, KD4GUA:

This Sunday we will discuss Chantix, the new FDA approved drug for quitting smoking. We will also discuss your methods to induce your patients to quit. Other meds being studied include rimonabant a pill and upcoming vaccines . Early tests of these new meds have been promising. 15 years after quitting--the risk of coronary heart disease is that of a nonsmoker! (Do you believer that?)

Let's help those with, kick the habit, which is tougher than opium to quit.

Sunday 14.308, 10 a.m. Eastern. If we are bombarded by the Latins on 14.310 go DOWN to 14.307. "If you can't lick 'em, leave 'em."

NOTE: The December pdf version of the Newsletter is available on the internet via listserve. The mail-version should be in the pipeline by Tuesday.

MARCO Grand Rounds, November 16, 2006

From Warren, KD4GUA:

Last Sunday, November 12, we had 34 check-ins for a discussion on the use of Statin drugs. Due to time limitations we were unable to finish and thus, will continue this Sunday, 10 a.m. Eastern 14.308...if we hit the Latins go DOWN to 14.307 as they will probably be haunting at 14.310.

Medical Personnel Needed in Africa

Received from MediShare International Chairman Bill Stenberg, N5QF:

Dear MARCO members:
MediShare has received a request for medical personnel by Nlogha E. Okeke,MD, FACS in Eastern Nigeria.
The Eastern Nigeria Medical Centre is a 98 bed nonprofit, non-governmental general hospital located in the eastern part of Nigeria. Some information about the hospital can be accessed at its web site- www.enmc-hospital.org.
If you can help please contact Dr. Okeke (ifeomake@yahoo.com), and please cc to me.
Thank you!!!
William Stenberg, DDS, MPH/ N5QF
MediShare Director
www.medishare.org

Audio Download of MARCO Grand Rounds

Chip Keister, N5RTF, has made audio of MARCO Grand Rounds available through his Website.

Here is the information from Chip:

Internet streaming audio of MARCO Grand Rounds is up and running again today. This is an MP3 icecast/shoutcast stream available by clicking the following link or pasting it into your favorite MP3 player:

http://tkeister.net:8000/stream.m3u or cut and paste http://tkeister.net:8000/stream

Winamp and VLC work best. Microsoft Media Player will work after a long buffering delay.

I have also set up an FTP site to download previous Grand Rounds audio. The link is:

ftp://tkeister.net User name is marco. Password is wb5d.

Files are listed by date. To download, you will have to have your browser set to active FTP. In Microsoft Internet Explorer, on the top toolbar, click Tools, then Advanced, then scroll down to an entry labeled: Use Passive FTP (for firewall and DSL modem compatibility). Uncheck this box, then click Apply, then OK. Go back to the file list and click on the desired archive, then follow the instructions from your browser.

This is not real audio on demand, but will allow people to catch Grand Rounds when they couldn't be on the air in person. Please send comments, positive or negative.

Note that real-time streaming is available during the net, held Sundayts at 10AM Eastern Time (1500 UTC in the Winter and 1400 UTC in the Summer).

MARCO Website updated

On November 4, 2006 the "Radio Links" page of MARCO's Website was updated with several new links added.

-KM2L