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November 05, 2005
'World's only blogging anesthesiologist'? — 'I think not!'
Every few months I get an irate email with more or less the message above.
Sometimes from an anesthesiologist, sometimes from a reader of an anesthesiologist's blog.
Each time I assign my crack research team to follow up and get the facts.
Because if there is indeed another blogging anesthesiologist — and I'm the one who decides what makes a blogging anesthesiologist — then I will graciously change my sobriquet to "World's first blogging anesthesiologist."
'Cause I think I've got that one sewn up.
But I digress.
Let's see who's out there, shall we?
The first of the other anesthesiologist blogs I became aware of was wakingupcosts.
It's written by a practicing anesthesiologist, true enough.
The most recent posts appeared on October 15, October 9, August 22 and July 7.
Nuff said.
The same anesthesiologist produces romanvenable.net: its last post went up on April 30 of this year.
Imsosleepy is the blog of a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist in the Middle West.
He posted on October 17, October 16, October 11 and September 25.
Then there's echojournal, a joint production of anesthesiologists Michael Ostrovsky and Paul Geldard which began on November 1, 2003.
The last post was on June 14 of this year.
Now we leave the U.S. and enter the big wide world.
Gasman is a Malaysian anesthesiologist who posted on October 30, October 21 and September 26.
smooze is the blog of a Swiss anesthesiologist named J. Corniche.
He emailed me recently to call my attention to his existence.
The email was in English but his blog is in French — not one of my languages.
The most recent posts were on October 30, October 27, October 21 and October 16.
Finally, there's nurseanesthetist.
It's quite good and offers much of interest to those who visit.
Now, having toured the (known) world of anesthesiologist blogs, wouldn't you agree that it's actually quite reasonable for me to continue calling myself the "world's only?"
I mean, I post more often each day than most of the others do in a month.
I welcome your thoughts.
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I'm looking to become an anesthesiologist. I have a lot of questions. Where or what school should I start at in NJ? I have heard community college is a no go.
Posted by: JD | Aug 20, 2009 8:12:48 PM
You being an anesthesiologist does not help me much when you blog about the same crap as other bloggers. I want a blog about anasthesiology... Guess I`ll have to find someone else to provide that.
Posted by: Wangas | Dec 27, 2008 1:29:38 PM
It is 3:30 am and I sit here irate thinking about my job in south Florida and the abuse and fraud that goes on within the ranks of my own profession. When are we as anesthesiologist going to wake up and take back control of our lives and careers? Again, I join a practice that refuses to give the real truth in hours until you begin working and find out that your week is no less than 65 - 75 hours of in house working. Now lets see, the average nurse anesthetist in south florida and my practice makes 140,000 dollars per year for a forty hour week and more for over time. Divide my 250,000 dollars per year at 75 hours per week and you get 62 dollars per hour....the nurse makes 67 dollars per hour. Who in hell are we kidding here. Do the math in your own practices...and I promise your numbers will be nauseating
Posted by: John R Habib, M.D. | Nov 13, 2006 4:09:47 AM
check it out please....\
ur not alone...\
Posted by: morton | Oct 21, 2006 2:54:05 AM
Hey, Joe, thanks for outing me, man. Here I try to blog without identifying myself as a doc...
I have actually been posting since August. B.i.d., except for when I have been out of town. A zeptosecond by your standards, but if you strive for accuracy...
So as far as I am concerned, you can be world's only blogging anesthesiologist. Heck, you can be the universe's only B.A.
I remain a fan anyway.
Posted by: Dr. C. | Nov 8, 2005 9:34:35 PM
How about 'only' in the sense that 'I only have eyes/time to read your blog'! Keep it up, you've brighten up my day - every day - life would be soooo boring without THIS blog! What a bunch of stirrers...
Posted by: Lisa | Nov 8, 2005 10:18:49 AM
MedGadget posts about as much or more than bookofjoe, albeit with less wit ;)
Posted by: enoch choi | Nov 7, 2005 11:50:28 AM
Michael Ostrovsky blogs over at MedGadget now, daily. (i help from time to time there)
Posted by: enoch choi | Nov 7, 2005 11:48:25 AM
Joe, love ur blog but fact is u'r just not the only one.. :)
U can call urself 'the best', 'the most popular', 'the 1st' etc, etc.. but just not 'the only'.
Cheers. Keep up the good work.
Posted by: PalmoAnest | Nov 6, 2005 1:18:21 PM
Also, if frequency is really a factor, how many days a year do you spend being a working anesthesiologists compared to the other bloggers in this category?
If you spend more of your waking hours working on this blog than you do being an anesthesiologists, then wouldn't it be more appropriate to call yourself a blogger instead of an anesthesiologists? It's only your choice to not feature ads on your site... if you did, you might make more at blogging than at being an anesthesiologists.
No matter... we love you and your blog and have no interest in reading other anesthesiologist's blogs, so you have the market to yourself in our eyes.
Posted by: Ben Willmore | Nov 6, 2005 12:20:46 PM
The fact that you just listed multiple blogs written by anesthesiologists is simple proof that you are not the only one. Most frequent maybe, but I'd love to know what % of your posts are on that subject. Unless you have some sort of proof, I don't know that you can call yourself the first either. You just have a great blog that we all enjoy reading and I'm sure I'm not the only one this is rather amused that you consider yourself the only blogging anesthesiologists when you have proven multiple times that it is not true.
I blog about Photoshop and Photography and am glad that the person who has a lot more entries per day does not claim to tbe the only person who does what I do. If they did, I'd think they should be in the loony bin as I'm sure many anesthesiologists think about you.
Keep blogging and use whatever you want as your tag line, just try not to point out other blogs that contradict your tag line or change "only" to something else... frequency isn't what makes a blog a blog.
We love you man... we just consider you to be the best blogging anesthesiologists and are very aware that you're not the only anesthesiologists even if you think you are.
Posted by: Ben Willmore | Nov 6, 2005 12:16:45 PM
how about "the quantum worlds only blogging anesthesiologist"
Posted by: lucky | Nov 6, 2005 9:34:23 AM
Sorry, Joe-once you know it's not true, you can't say it. (IMHO)You could say that you're the only blogging ansthesiologist that doesn't put you to sleep with his blog, or call yourself the most popular, or just call yourself the first. Be true.
Posted by: Scott Lane | Nov 6, 2005 6:37:24 AM
As to make the claim you do is well, misleading, given the wording you choose to you use, to my mind it detracts somewhat from your site to make such a tenuous claim.
I kept a journal throughout my 6 years of medical school (in Oz that's how long we train for our basic degree!). Sometimes I'd write every day...sometimes not for months. It was still a journal.
Posted by: epicurus | Nov 6, 2005 3:23:07 AM
Love your blog, but you rarely blog about anesthesia!!!
Posted by: bnug | Nov 5, 2005 10:37:29 PM
From the Wiktionary - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Only
Only (no comparative or superlative forms)
1. singular; part of a relatively small number
he is the only doctor for miles
2. without sibling; without a sibling of the same gender
he is their only son, infact, an only child
3. singularly superior; the best
I like one and three, as they sure do define bookofjoe and our dear dr. joe!
Posted by: Mattp9 | Nov 5, 2005 8:41:29 PM
You are not familiar with this anesthesiologist?
http://theunderweardrawer.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Bruce Small | Nov 5, 2005 8:09:08 PM
How about the world's "first blogging anesthesiologist"?
Posted by: Joan | Nov 5, 2005 6:45:35 PM
Sorry, but that makes you the world's most frequently posting blogging anesthesiologist, not the world's only. Bloggers who post infrequently or in other languages or in such a way that doesn't overtly reveal their occupation are still bloggers.
Posted by: Lori Kozey | Nov 5, 2005 5:31:13 PM
Sorry Joe, you're simply just not the only one. And I'd hate your blog to be akin to a cheap tourist restaurant that claims to have the "world's best" chili....
Posted by: Russ | Nov 5, 2005 5:15:09 PM
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