Top 50 medical blogs

A list of my top 50 medical blogs (in no particular order) to provide relief from MRCP revision/remind you why you want to be a doctor... 

1. The Jobbing Doctor - blog of a UK GP with a mixture of medical news and engaging reviews of his own practice
2. A Life in the Day of a Basics Doctor - blog of a UK basics doctor, well-written, conversational and amusing
   
3. Dr Grumble - a regularly updated UK blog with medical news appropriately grumbled about/interpreted
4. Doctor Grumpy in the House - blog by an American doctor written mainly in the format of conversations between 'Dr Grumpy' and patients/other characters.  Likely to raise smiles.
5. White Coat's Call Room - blog by American ED doctor, full of humour
6. Mothers in medicine - blog by a group of doctors who are also mums.  Or should that be mums who are also doctors?
   
7. The Central Line - American blog with a mixture of amusing anecdotal stories and educational posts
8. Better in Emergency Medicine - American blog with conversationally-written and witty educational posts
9. A new kind of GP - blog by a UK GP combining humour with news and opinions
10. Movin' Meat - blog of a US ER doctor
    
11. Trust me, I'm a more competent junior doctor - diary-type blog by a UK junior doctor, ranting about issues all juniors will relate to 
    
12. Northern Doc - UK blog which comments on medical news from the viewpoint of the doctors on the 'frontline'
13. The Dobbing Doctor - blog by a junior UK doctor, a nice mix of posts about medical and personal life
14. Surgeon, interrupted - blog by a surgeon
15. Scrubs and pubs - reflections on life by a junior doctor based in the UK
    
16. Bad Medicine - UK blog about "the sometimes frankly lunatic developments in the medical world"
    
17. Docnotes - by an American doctor with a mix of international medical news, education and personal insights
18. Academic life in emergency medicine - by an American doctor, engaging posts designed to educate
    
19. The ferret fancier - UK medical politics and news discussed and digested
20. The girl with the blue stethoscope - blog by an Australian junior doctor
21. A chance to cut is a chance to cure - blog by a surgeon looking at medical news
    
22. Dr Shock - blog  by a dutch doctor with a mixture of news and education and a focus on medical education and  psychiatry-based items
23. Notes from Dr RW - American blog with a focus on clinical topics and easy links to useful articles and reviews
24. Fresh MD - blog about medicine and being a mum
25. db's medical rants - discussions of medical news and US healthcare
26. FutureDocs - blog by an American doctor focusing on medical education
27. Pathologic basis of KT - blog by an Australian doctor
28. Glass hospital - blog by a US doctor who aims to 'demystify' medicine
29. Scalpel's edge - blog by a surgeon
30. Trauma queen - amusing blog about the difficult job of a paramedic  
31. Siren voices - posts about different cases written to make you feel like you're there.  UK based.
32. Insomniac medic - entertaining blog full of the little foibles of working in healthcare
33. Burned out medic - concise posts that all those in the healthcare field will relate to
34. Rogue medic - US paramedic, educating and reflecting in an engaging way
35. Newbiemedic - blog of a new UK paramedic
36. Future ditch doctor - blog of a new US paramedic
37. Call bells make me nervous - conversational blog about life as an ED nurse
38. Uncompromised airways - great blog by an American ICU nurse
39. Madness - tales of an emergency room nurse - insights and humour from an American ER nurse
40. My strong medicine - blog by a male American critical care nurse, complete with survival tips
41. Emergiblog - thoughts of an American ER nurse
42. Asystole is the most stable rhythm - blog by a former nurse now training as a medical student in Ireland.  Mixture of laugh-out-loud funny posts and more serious reflections.
43. The long road to medical school - great blog by an American medical student with posts about both medical school and her life 
44. The Fuddled Medic - UK medical student blogging about life
45. Sharp incisions - reflections of a medical student
46. Action potential - blog by US med student full of enthuiasm
47. I don't do pink - final year medical student's blog
48. A cartoon guide to becoming a doctor - blog of US medical student's thoughts, complete with cartoons
49. A weekly blog from a clinical years UK medical - conversational blog about life as a medical student
50. Diary of a Caribbean medical student - blog by a medical student studying in the Caribbean