Times have changed

@ConanOBrien:

http://twitpic.com/17lx53 - I no longer have health care. Could someone show this to a dermatologist and get back to me?

@pyknosis:

I'm a hematologist, not a dermatologist, but looking at that, I give you 7 months. Don't worry. That's a really long time.

That's just good humor, as Happy Hospitalist likes to say.

Can you describe coefficient of variance in 140 characters?

"Can you describe coefficient of variance in 140 characters?", asked a medical librarian on Twitter:

laikas RT @shamsha: need help: can someone plz describe coefficient of variance in English? thnx! 34 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Some people obviously can:

@HCIR_GeneG: It's a measure of variability of a data sample, without paying attention to absolute values. Can be used to compare diff. distributions.

@flutesUD: CV = Std Dev / Mean. Tells u how variable the data are regardless of their units. Lets u compare across different types of studies.

My suggestion:

DrVes@laikas @shamsha Check the Wikipedia definition, click on the links in the description and you'll get there... :) http://bit.ly/18NnEH29 minutes ago from web in reply to laikas

In probability theory and statistics, the coefficient of variation (CV) is a normalized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution. It is defined as the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean .

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Rule of Twitter: When one million followers is actually... zero

From Twitter account of David Pogue of NYTimes:

Pogue 1 million followers today. A little scary: that's more than read the Times, more than watch CNBC, more than read my books... NO PRESSURE! 21 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Pogue via @ridgeley: 1M followers for @pogue, but most are spam. [DP sez: Probably true. Rule of Twitter: # of followers, divided by 10?] 8 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Pogue OK, you guys are telling me: 1/2 of my 1M followers have moved on. 25% are spam. 25% are auto-follow. So that comes to... NO FOLLOWERS! :) 6 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Medical Geek Humor on Twitter

The tweets below are part of the series Medical Geek Humor on Twitter:

laikas Hi folks, I'm in Quebec, Canada watching beavers, bears, moose & wales. Gr8! 13 minutes ago from web

BiteTheDust are they all romping around together? 8 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to laikas

laikas almost, except the wales. Moose and beavers together, as well as bears and deer. (luckily all predators fed well) 2 minutes ago from web in reply to BiteTheDust

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Medical Geek Humor on Twitter

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progressnotes I met an 88 year old patient who has a great sense of humor and takes no medications. Not one. about 1 hour ago from web

progressnotes A little girl proudly announced, "I'm 8!" and he replied, "I'm double 8!"
about 1 hour ago from web

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