RedScrubs Weekly Wrap-up 12-05-08
This has been a long week filled with Holiday Cheer! I hope all of our readers had a good Thanksgiving Day and took some time to catch up on medical blog reading. We saw family we haven’t seen in ages and all had a good time. The turkey was great as it is every year, and what is Thanksgiving without a Health Care Reform debate? So, with interesting banter and medical blogs to catch up on, it was a fun holiday to say the least!
I ate a healthy meal, avoiding the gravy and choosing the white meat of the turkey. That is, of course, how I keep my cholesterol below 200 and my HDLs up to 65 with an LDL of only 130 mg/dl! Yup, the picture of heart health! I haven’t had a CRP done yet, but we are going to assume that is good as well. And, after the latest news on bad HDLs, we are going to assume all my good HDLs are “good” and none of them are the “bad” pro-inflammatory HDLs the media has been yapping about lately. Just another thing to put on my cardiovascular risk profile – pro-inflammatory HDLs. (I’ll have to make a note to have those checked now.)
As far as the blogs this week, we had many good selections and it took some effort to come up with the winners, but here they are. . .
I Thought I Was Bad At Reading X-Rays by Douglas Farrago, MD
Honorable Mentions
- Probiotics by Toni Brayer, M.D.
- Yummy. Undercooked Pork by White Coat
