From the New York Times (4/3/2007) article on Atul Gawande, MD. Dr. Gawande does mostly thyroid surgeries, and so it is pretty funny (to me) that while waiting for biopsy results he’s playing a game of hangman (you know, where the rope goes around the neck and if you lose your man dies) on […]
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So here I am, trying to do some serious writing tonight, and the table of contents for this month’s Archives of Disease in Childhood shows up in my inbox. Six out of ten times I don’t even bother to read through it, even though I’m an ad hoc reviewer for it, and even though it’s […]
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I don’t watch much television (as a matter of fact, one of my favorite gadgets that I’ve acquired is the TV-B-Gone (it’s a great way to make a hospital room quiet on rounds). It’s not that I don’t like television. I do. It’s mindless relaxation that is semi-informative, occasionally funny, and once-in-a-while, […]
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Ok. James Brown’s death has been covered by pretty much every media outlet. And I’ll admit, this fixation on death around the holidays may be a little grim.
So to lighten things up, and given that it is still technically Christmas, I offer this public service message from the National Health Service (UK). […]
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My uncle, who lives in the land of my people (Aventura, just north of Miami), sent me a joke today. Little did he realize that this is one of my favorite jokes. Given today’s grim commemorations, I figured that I’d share it with you, if anything, to lighten the mood a little.
The year […]
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For many, many, many reasons, I love the New Yorker.
I love it as much as I love the really good issues of the New England Journal.
And here are a couple of reasons why.
First, who else would publish this:
And then, to put Adam Gopnik as the first story in The Talk of the Town and let […]
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