You can now check the last edition of Grand Rounds blog carnival. Grand Rounds brings, weekly, the best blog posts on health and medical issues.

We will host the next edition in our blog, on Tuesday January 15th.

Theme of the edition: Briefing The Next US President. You can choose to write about some issue very close to your heart, that you’d like to make sure the next US President pays attention to. Or simply send us your best post this week: I will include all the good posts I receive, to provide a window into what health and medicine professionals are thinking of in a typical week.

Send submissions to afernandez at gmail dot com, with Grand Rounds in the subject line.

Looking forward your submissions!

Here is a very quick test to determine your stress level. Read the following description completely before looking at the picture.

The picture below was used in a case study on stress levels at St. Mary’s Hospital. Look at both dolphins jumping out of the water. The dolphins are identical. A closely monitored, scientific study revealed that, in spite of the fact that the dolphins are identical, a person under stress would find differences between the two dolphins. The more differences a person finds between the dolphins, the more stress that person is experiencing.

Look at the photograph, and if you find more than one or two differences, you may want to take a vacation or at least get a massage.

Click here to see the picture before reading more.

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