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I came across this on Flickr. I think I’m going to do this to a pole near where I work. See how long it lasts.
Originally uploaded by Avi_Abrams.
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You may be wondering whose owns these legs, and why they’re clad in little red and white ribbons. I was wondering that myself, as I was leafing through this week’s American Medical News. It turns out that they belong to television host Meredith Vieira, who apparently rented them to the pharmaceutical giant […]

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“I love Scandinavian consumer goods”. I actually had a dream about that phrase last night. It is clearly because I spent the better part of the afternoon installing an Elfa shelving system in our utility room. Now, I’m a left-handed Jew, which puts me in the highest possible risk group for causing […]

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Clark Bartram’s fascinating Wizard of Oz-esque dream-sequence Pediatric Grand Rounds got me thinking about my nocturnal activities.
Despite the fact that my sleep latency is remarkably short, I still insist on going to bed with my trusty iPod on. This is a holdover from when I was much (much) younger, and I learned to fall […]

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I’m going a little plastic surgery on the blog — I upgraded my WordPress software to their new 2.1 (”Ella”) release, and it didn’t seem to place nicely with the old format. I’m going to monkey around with different templates, so don’t be weirded out if you come by and it looks different from […]

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Every Tuesday morning, when I browse through the New York Times, I head straight for the Science section. It’s not so much that I’m looking for any overnight breaking news in the world of molecular biology. Instead, I’m looking for new perspectives on the same science and medicine that I’m immersed in every […]

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I now have to stop talking about poop GI matters for a while since Adam is going to give the impression that I have an obsession of some sort with the stuff.
Instead of spending time in the laboratory tonight (for which I’m feeling tremendously guilty), I ambled down to my favorite moviehouse, the Coolidge Corner […]

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As anybody who has been through a pediatrics rotation or a pediatrics residency knows, this job is all about the poop. Pardon the terrible metaphor, but in pediatrics, poop is our … ahem … bread and butter. It is the one thing that all parents want to talk about at some point. […]

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Sometimes I take it for granted that I occupy a part of the world in which there are more Purell dispensers than people.
In fact, at times I wonder if I’ve developed some odd transdermal addiction. I find myself seeing out this glorious gelled delight in settings other than the lab or the hospital. After walking […]

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I have a chronic condition: poor handwriting.  Dismal.  Illegible.  Embarassing. 
It looks like something between micrographia and block print.  Done by a left-handed person.  In a hurry.  When I get a chance I’ll write something and scan it in so that you can appreciate the absolute mess that my handwritten documents are. 
It’s not that I didn’t try.  Believe me, […]

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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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I am never on time in clinic. Never.
I try - oh, believe me - I really, really try. I’ve tried preparing all of my orders and prescriptions the night before. I’ve tried showing up an hour early to make sure that I walk into the exam room at the exact […]

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Taking a non-medical moment today, I wanted to share with everyone that my wife Julie and I will be riding in the 2007 Pan-Mass Challenge.  Registration opened this morning at 9:00am and by 9:10 I was signed up and ready to go.
For those not familiar with this tremendous event, the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (or PMC) is […]

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The original blog Grand Rounds (version 3.15) is up at Musings of a Distractible Mind. My sincerest thanks to Rob on selecting my entry on the most difficult conversation as one of his “Editors Choices”.
I think that Moreena’s (The Wait and Wonder) entry on the ethics of denying liver transplantation to a […]

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