On the blogs: budgets, guidelines, gaps, backlash, stabbing -- and Manny

On Running a Hospital, Paul Levy of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center reminds us what keeps the lights on. He outlines a business plan to come up with overall positive income based on some services making more money than others.

Kevin, MD, warns us to watch out for guidelines pushed by organizations that might benefit from them. He points to recent recommendations for prostate cancer screening and heart tests for children taking ADHD medications.

On WBUR's Commonhealth, Dr. Marylou Buyse of the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans talks about gaps in the transition of care from hospital to home, a measure we as a state don't do well on.

Over on the Carlat Psychiatry Blog, Dr. Daniel Carlat reports on reaction to a Business Week story in which he criticizes drugmakers' sponsorship of continuing medical education. Carlat bats down suggestions that he would profit from a ban on such arrangements, but he really gets mad at the guy who spells his name wrong.

Then on Other People's Emergencies, our urban paramedic gets called to a stabbing. Not much time, not many answers when someone has wounds that need a surgeon right away. How did it happen? That's for the detectives. "People talk all the time about random acts of violence, but there's rarely anything random about a person getting stabbed four times."

Last of all, if you think you've heard the last about the Manny Ramirez trade, or if Dr. Gwenn's pediatrics office seems like the last place for it, go to her blog Dr. Gwenn Is In to see what kids are telling her.