New projects on this blog

I have been busy and I have not been blogging. Clinical work has just been too busy.

I have also had the pleasure to be studying for my re-certification in Internal Medicine. Many cardiologists gave up internal medicine, but you cannot be an effective clinician without knowing internal medicine. And I have been reading MKSAP 14, Medstudy, new Cecil, UptoDate, etc.

Lately, I have also been reading psychiatry textbooks because so many of my patients have psychopathology. I have been reading Stahl's psychopharmacology prescriber's guide, Sadock and Sadock's synopsis of psychiatry, and Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology by Schatzberg.

I also got the new Braunwald's Heart (2007): I am not too impressed overall, but it takes time to go through it.

And I therefore don't really have any time left to blog. Between reading journals, textbooks, seeing patients, doing procedures...

But I want to start three porjects on this blog, if time allows:
1. Internal Medicine and Cardiology: clinical tips from books, journals, and my cases.
2. Psychiatry and Cardiology: a review of mental health and cardiology
3. Cardiology Cheat Sheet: I want to summarize the whole of cardiology in as little words as possible. WIth Cardiology becoming more complex, I want to simplify it to the core for the front-line beginners. I did write a little book called Cardiology at A glance, but I want to make an updated ultra-short cheat sheet.

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