The following blogs were chosen by Google rankings, but also by the number of times they were recommended by other doctors. The list is divided into categories and each link is listed alphabetically to show that we do not favor one doctor over another.

The Human Side

Although the following doctors have their specialties, their outside interests seem to take front stage.

1. Book of Joe: This “world’s most popular blogging anesthesiologist” offers his opinions on some odd subjects, always entertaining.
2. Musings of a Dinosaur: if you want great writing and humor that makes you snort your coffee up your nose, this is the blog for you.
3. Musings of a Distractible Mind: Go from seriousness to absurd from one blog post to the next in this strange, yet not harmful, blog.
4. Notes of an Anesthesioboist: Combine a specialist with an oboe and this is what you get.
5. Doctor Bruno’s Blog: Don’t look for medical advice here. This is an interesting personal views and opinions blog.
6. Polite Dissent: Enjoy comics, medicine television and fun from this family practitioner.
7. The Blog that Ate Manhattan: Cooking and doctoring in this blog, which focuses on both.
8. The Doctor Is In: Dr. Bob is a Christian doctor who has a very popular blog.
9. The Happy Hospitalist Blog: From the hospital doctor straight to your computer screen with various topics and a sense of humor.
10. The Knitting Doctor: Lorette shares her passions — knitting and internal medicine. Yes, it works.

Specialties

The following doctors have outside interests, but their specialties are the focus.

11. A Blog Around the Clock: Bora Zivkovic’s scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism) and additional interests in comparative physiology.
12. A Life In The Day Of A Basics Doc: This roadside doctor handles trauma and writes about his experiences. Sobering and riveting.
13. Bioethics Discussion Blog: Once a week or so, Dr. Bernstein offers a blog entry of varying interests, always in the world of bioethics.
14. Buckeye Surgeon: Ruminations by a non-academic general surgeon from the heart of the rust belt.
15. CancerDoc: A budding oncologist “tries to make sense of the world.”
16. Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog: This blog offers health news, updated daily, by a former Cleveland Clinic assistant professor of medicine.
17. Doctor David’s Blog: Follow the musings of a pediatric oncologist.
18. Dr. Deb: This lady is all business. She’s a psychologist specializing in trauma and depression and uses her blog for educating the public.
19. Dr. Is In: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes offers advice on a variety of topics, including addictions and mental health.
20. Dr. Len’s Cancer Blog: Dr. Lichtenfeld is Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the national office of the American Cancer Society.
21. Gruntdoc: A highly popular blog written by a doctor who once served in the U.S. Navy.
22. Kidney Notes: Dr. Schwimmer tags news and other articles that focus on nephrology.
23. Notes from the Country Doctor: Humor or medicine…or both? Don’t miss the quotes in the sidebar.
24. RangelMD: Learn more about sickness with a dash of cynicism from this highly popular doctor’s blog.
25. Rebel Doctor Web Log: This doctor specializes in sleep problems and psychology.
26. Retired Doc’s Thoughts: Although some entries focus on health care debates, the focus here is on internal medicine, endurance training, exercise and gerontology.
27. Rural Doctoring: Small-town medicine in the Internet age by Theresa Chan, a family physician working in rural Northern California.
28. Suture for a Living: Although this plastic surgeon is into ‘stitches’ in quilts as well as on bodies, the focus is more on medicine and health than on sewing.
29. The Underwear Drawer: This is a personal online journals os an anesthesiology resident in Atlanta and “what happens next.”

American Issues

30. Bad Science: Dr. Goldacre is an award-winning broadcaster and medical doctor who specializes in tearing apart dodgy scientific claims made by “scaremongerers.”
31. Fixin’ Healthcare: Dr. Newberry is a physician, former Dean of College of Medicine and Academic VP & Provost at MUSC in Charleston, SC (retired) and currently at Nutritional Health Centers in Greenville & Spartanburg, SC.
32. Health Care Renewal: A variety of doctors contribute to this blog, which is focused on health care renewal.
33. KevinMD.com: Join the hippest, most happening doctor on the Internet today as he tackles health care issues from the lens of a primary care provider.
34. Medical Humanities: This blog, written by a slew of medical personnel, focuses on the intersection between medicine and the arts.
35. SoloDoc: A family medicine doctor “goes from HMO to Solo” and comments on the healthcare debate.
36. DB’s Medical Rants: Dr. Centor contemplates medicine and the health care system in this interesting blog.
37. MD Whistleblower: Get it while it’s hot! Dr. Kirsch enjoys writing about controversies in the doctor-patient relationship. When he’s not writing, he’s “performing colonoscopies.”
38. Notes from Dr. RW: Learn about strange happenings in the medical world, including the interface between medicine and politics, from this blog.
39. The Covert Rationing Blog: Learn about healthcare rationing in America from Dr. Rich, a former professor of medicine.
40. Wachter’s World: Dr. Wachter is MD is Professor and Associate Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He also writes this highly popular blog for and about doctors and their environments.

Other Countries

41. Angry Doc: Angry Doc is anonymous, but he is located in Singapore, and his interests and opinions have garnered a large following over the years.
42. Bad Medicine: This UK blog focuses on…yep, bad medicine; but, in a totally engaging way.
43. Bagga’s Blog: Dr. Paul Baggaley is a Christian family doctor from Perth, Australia with an interest in obstetrics and pediatrics.
44. Doctor Bloggs…The official online diary of Nasty Gnome Party: A highly political medical blog colored by a great British humor lens and focused on the British National Health Service (NHS).
45. National Death Service: UK NHS horror stories drip from this “gotta watch this train wreck” blog.
46. NHS Blog Doctor: Dr. Crippen, located in the UK, blogs about the trials and tribulations of family medicine in the NHS.
47. Nip/Fuct: ‘Dr. Vegas,’ located in the UK, tags himself as a “greedy doctor looking for job satisfaction.”
48. The Jobbing Doctor: Follow this UK general practitioner who works in a “large industrialized conurbation outside of London.”
49. The Junior Doctor: This junior doc is training somewhere in the UK and “loving it.”
50. Ward 87: This doc is an NHS whistle-blower. You think the U.S. has health issues? Read this blog and weep.

This list is divided into categories, and each link is listed alphabetically within those categories. The university that offers the course is shown in brackets after each course description.

Health Policy Basics

1. Changing the Face of American Healthcare: This new course invites students to learn about strengths and weaknesses within the American health care system [Notre Dame].
2. Comparative Health Policy: The course shows how the historical development of the American health care system may limit policy options [MIT].
3. Introduction to Health Policy: This course focuses on four substantive areas that form the analytic basis for many of the health policy and management issues [Johns Hopkins].
4. Introduction to Technical Communication: Perspectives on Medicine and Public Health: Students only need a general interest in medicine or public health issues to tackle this course [MIT].
5. The Politics of Health Care: Learn about the uninsured in this country as well as health care roots, Medicare, Medicaid and more in this series of seminars [Columbia].
6. Understanding Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care: Learn basic economic concepts needed to understand the recommendations from the U. S. Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine [Johns Hopkins].

Public Policy Basics

7. Fundamentals of Public Policy: Explore policy-making as both a problem-solving process and a political process in this undergraduate course [MIT].
8. Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy: This course examines the main public policy frames that guide theory, research, policy, and practice into poverty, public policy and controversy [MIT].
9. Public Opinion and American Democracy: Explore how citizens’ thinking about politics is shaped and the role of public opinion in political campaigns, elections, and government in this course [MIT].
10. U.S. Social Policy: Examine the policy-making process in the U.S., why some alternatives are implemented and others abandoned, why some interests are privileged over others [MIT].
11. Values, Ethics, and Public Policy: How do moral and political values come into play in the American policy process? Learn about this issue and more from this course [Open Michigan].

Public Health Basics

12. Ethical Issues in Public Health: This course focuses on ethical theory and current ethical issues in public health and health policy [Johns Hopkins].
13. Health Across the Life Span: Frameworks, Contexts, and Measurements: This comprehensive course can help learners understand the complexity of health issues that face various populations across a lifetime [Johns Hopkins].
14. Medicine and Public Health in American History: Learn more about the conception of disease, health and healing throughout American history [Notre Dame].
15. Public Health Practice 101: Learn about four ways to describe and define public health and ten essential services [Johns Hopkins].
16. Public Health Preparedness & Emergency Response: This series of lectures deals with public health and history of emergency responses as well as changing policies [Berkeley Webcast].
17. Public Health Seminar: Dr. Frederick Burkel provides a seminar on “Public Health Emergencies: The Common Thread,” a topic delivered as part of a public health seminar cosponsored by the Department of Emergency Medicine [UCIrvine].
18. The History of Public Health: The content provides an historical interpretation of how the theory and practice of public health in today’s world has come to be what it is today [Johns Hopkins].

Health Policy in Specific Topics

19. Contemporary Biosocial Problems in America: Among major issues examined in this course are ideological uses of science, the biological basis of sex roles and homosexuality, behavioral genetics, evolutionary psychology, and the meaning of race in medical practice [Tufts].
20. Coping with Mental Illness and Crafting Public Policy: This site focuses on a 2002 symposium that addressed public policy issues surrounding mental health care [University of California at Berkeley].
21. Disease and Society in America: This undergraduate course uses an historical approach to examine the changing patterns of disease, the causes of morbidity and mortality, the evolution of medical theory and practice, the development of hospitals and the medical profession, the rise of the biomedical research industry, and the ethics of health care in America [MIT].
22. Global Tobacco Control: Learn about the health and economic burden that tobacco creates and learn practical approaches to tobacco prevention, control, surveillance and evaluation [Johns Hopkins].
23. Measuring Health Disparities: Learn about health disparities and about a range of health disparity measures [Open Michigan].

Environment and Health

24. Biology of Water and Health: Learn how to think outside the box when addressing water-related problems [Tufts].
25. Environment and Society: This course examines environmental and social impacts of industrial society and policy responses [MIT].
26. Environmental Health: Topics in this course include how the body reacts to environmental pollutants and emerging global environmental health problems [Johns Hopkins].
27. Food Production, Public Health, and the Environment: Ever wonder why one billion people are under-nourished while another billion are overweight in this world? Take this course to learn more about this issue [Johns Hopkins].
28. Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease: What are the connections between the disruption of ecosystems and eruptions of human disease? [Columbia].
29. Public Health Toxicology: Learn about environmental toxicology, including information about the elimination of toxic agents as well as the fundamental laws governing the interaction of foreign chemicals with biological systems [Johns Hopkins].
30. The Politics of Pollution: This two-part series examines the impact of industrial production on public health and economics, including the politics of policy when it comes to environmental health [Columbia].
31. Watermanagement: This educational track focuses on understanding natural surface and groundwater streams and on managing, controlling and using water streams for society [TUDelft].

Pharmaceuticals

32. Computer-aided Drug Discovery for Infectious Diseases: This lecture covers some ways that modern theoretical and computational chemistry are contributing to the discovery of new pharmaceuticals [UCIrvine].
33. Exploring Pharmacology: This seminar imparts information on over-the-counter drugs, drug abuse, drug policies and more information [MIT].
34. Pharmaceuticals Management for Under-served Populations: Analyze problems and develop strategies based upon real world drug management issues [Johns Hopkins].
35. Principles of Drug Development: This course offers the underlying preclinical and clinical development of new therapeutic drugs and procedures as well as economic risks [Johns Hopkins].
36. Regulatory Requirements for Pharmaceutical Products: Learn about the requirements for pharmaceutical products and for the industry and how they were established [UCIrvine].

The Elderly and Managed Care

37. Aging and disability: transitions into residential care: Learn more about how settings for elder-care work in this module [Open University].
38. Health Issues for Aging Populations: This course introduces the study of aging and the background for health policy related to older persons [Johns Hopkins].
39. Managed Care and Health Insurance: This course covers basic concepts pertaining to private and public sector health insurance/benefit plans [Johns Hopkins].
40. Managing Long-Term Care Services for Aging Populations: Learn conceptual frameworks surrounding changes and health problems that accompany aging [Johns Hopkins].
41. Moral and Ethical Principles in End of Life Care: Learn what end-of-life care is about through this mini-course [Open University].
42. Neurology, Neuropsychology, and Neurobiology of Aging: Learn more about the loss of memory and other cognitive abilities in normal aging, as well as neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases [MIT].
43. Population Medicine: Directed at physicians, this course asks doctors to shift attention away from the pathophysiologic effects of disease on individuals, and refocus it on a public scale. The elderly are used as a population model in this examination [Tufts].

Legal Issues

44. Law and Society: This course emphasizes the relationship between the internal logic of legal devices and economic, political and social processes [MIT].
45. Law, Social Movements, and Public Policy: Comparative and International Experience: This course introduces theoretical frameworks from legal and social movement theories and focuses on the impact of the relationship between courts and grassroots activism on current issues [MIT].
46. Legal Issues Affecting the Terminally Ill Patient: This lecture focuses on the rights of terminally ill patients and how they may be affected by state and federal laws [Case Western Reserve University].
47. Resolving Public Disputes: Topics to be considered in this course include national, state, and local policy disputes [MIT].
48. Workshop on Deliberative Democracy and Dispute Resolution: This course features the Workshop on Deliberative Democracy and Dispute Resolution [MIT].

Collections

49. Harvard Medical School: Use your page search option to view lectures and papers on health policy issues found on this site [Harvard].
50. Health-Medicine: This series of podcasts and Webcasts covers current debates in health and medicine [University of Virginia].

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