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Shinga, author of Breath Spa for Kids did a terrific job on the most recent Pediatric Grand Rounds (Volume 1, Number 11), which is now available for your edification.

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There is an excellent McDonald’s parody page to be found here where you can make your very own McDonald’s sign (as well as protesting McDonald’s promotion of the Hummer in their Happy Meals).
Note: Even more McDonald’s weirdness at MetaFilter today.

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This little blurb is more of a reminder to myself than a real post. I’ve been meaning to write about the uncertainty which is unfortunately, well, the only certainty about medicine. One of the benefits of being a physician - that is, one of the stripes that I’m happier about finally earning - […]

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… they may kill you with their bare hands.
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There’s a terrific animation that I just heard about (through MetaFilter, of course) called The Inner Life of a Cell. It’s a computerized tour-de-force of cell biology. I recognized dozens of processes that I’ve studied over the years (e.g., microtubule assembly, actin polymerization, integrin binding, mRNA transcription, etc.). It’s amazing.
See for yourself.

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One of the best things about being a pediatric oncologist is that your medical thermostat is set so low that you take any complaint with a degree of seriousness. An otherwise well 3 year-old child with a temperature of 100F probably wouldn’t make it past the answering service for a community pediatrician. But […]

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Anyone who has spent a lot of time in a children’s hospital knows that the quality of food served in the food courts ranges from poor to atrocious. And I’m not just talking about taste. I’m talking about nutritional content. When I was doing my residency at a fine midwestern hospital, […]

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I’m not so bright. Really. Quite dim.
Ok. Maybe not all bad. But how many doctors do you know who mistakenly show up to be on-call. I can tell you of plenty who forget to show up when they’re on call. But none who not only show up when it’s […]

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Well, this has been a great way to avoid having to do my regular work.
I’ve managed to establish several new webdomains, start a laboratory wiki, and set up WordPress so that I can finally move away from Blogger.com. Not that Blogger hasn’t been good to me. It has. And it’s owned by […]

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Well, here’s a story that seems counterintuitive until you think about it for a minute or two. Did you ever stop to think that the type of needle used to administer an immunization could have an effect on the immunogenicity of the vaccine? Or on the incidence of local reactions (redness, swelling, pain)? […]

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