It's a very busy here, getting ready for the big launch, but I thought I'd take a minute to post something 'friday-appropriate'. So on the lighter side of life, here is a tip, a fact, and a laugh.

Tip: You can use google to search for a term on any specific website. For example, I love to cook, so let’s say I wanted to search for the word ‘endive’ on the website allrecipes.com. I could go to www.google.com and enter this in search bar site:allrecipes.com endive.
And that tells google to search for the word ‘endive’, but only on the site ‘allrecipes.com’. This works with any site, but is especially helpful for websites that don't have their own search feature.

Fact: Yahoo! officially stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

Laugh: A doctor shared this video, and we think it’s very funny.

Have a great weekend!

For a while I've had an idea for something that would make a great Ally McBeal episode script. I’m going to share it now in the spirit of encouraging our physicians to start posting in the humor forum.

This episode would be a case involving two tenants in a condominium building. Here's what would lead up to the case: Tenant A’s bathroom wall was Tenant B’s living room wall. Tenant A, before going out for the evening, used the bathroom and flushed. As he locked the door behind him, he didn’t hear that his toilet had not flushed properly. The toilet overflowed all night in excess of 1000 gallons of water.

Tenant B, awoke after a good night’s sleep, to walk out to her kitchen to grab a cup of coffee. She took her coffee to the living room and sat down on her sofa; which backs up against the joining wall that also serves as Tenant A’s bathroom wall. When Tenant B sat, she became completely saturated and realized her sofa was soaked! Her sofa, hardwoods, area rug, CD’s, stereo (which she had sitting on the floor), were all ruined.
Now the fun begins:

Tenant B promptly files a claim with her homeowner’s insurance, of course. The insurance company pays for the damages. But then turns around and sues Tenant A to recoup its losses using the subrogation clause, claiming Tenant A was negligent by going to the bathroom, flushing, and then leaving his apartment without ensuring that the toilet flushed properly. Surprised, Tenant A sues the property management company claiming the property management company should have installed a better toilet. The management company sues the toilet manufacturer claiming the toilet malfunctioned. The toilet manufacturer sues Tenant A claiming none other than (drum roll please…) Tenant A had an EBM (enormous bowel movement). One that was so large and unusual that it could not be processed by the toilet, which was in perfect functioning order.
I bet you’ll never think of Evidence Based Medicine the same way – and I'd love to see Ally McBeal keep a straight-face as she made that argument to the judge!

If you have anything funny you’d like to share, please log in and post it in the Humor Forum. Happy flushing!

Here at iMedExchange, our company is growing. We’ve hired several new people in the last few weeks, and are adding physicians to our advisor network every day. As we grow, and as we talk with physicians about what they really want out of an online community, I’ve been thinking a lot about how people actually get to know each other. Often it’s the quirky, fun, and sometimes weird, things about people that say the most about them. But of course those take time to figure out. On your first day of work, or your first online-conversation with a colleague, you’re just starting to figure out your relationships. Until we know and trust someone, we tend to hide the quirky and fun aspects of who we are.
Some of you who are reading this blog know me pretty well, and some of you don’t know me at all – but in the spirit of making connections and getting to know the quirky side of me, I’m going to share something that not very many people know about me:

I have strict rules about what time I set my alarm clock. They include…
• ‘Common’ times like 6:30 or 7:00 are not acceptable.
• The digits that make up the time cannot be in ascending or descending order. (6:32 doesn’t work)
• No digit can be the sum or product of any of the other numbers. (7:34 doesn’t work)
• Also, there needs to be at least 1 odd and 1 even number in the time. (6:24 doesn’t work)

So… for those of you that know me, this can’t come as a complete surprise (I love numbers and math games). And while I probably wouldn’t share something like this at a job interview, I think it’s definitely a window into the quirky side of my personality. For those of you that I haven't officially met yet - it's nice to meet you!