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Personal Musings

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March 11, 2010 Blogging

It’s interesting to see how different things are over at The Health Care Blog.  First, it’s different to have to write “health care” instead of healthcare.  I personally am all for not using up or resources by adding the space between the two words.  Ihaveconsideredeliminatingspacesaltogether, but it gets confusing.  Iwon’tdothat.
One of the big differences I [...]

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Snow! Take the Poll!!

February 16, 2010 Personal Musings

It snowed here for the first time in 8 years.  Being an upstate New York boy, I had mixed emotions:

I was thrilled to see it.  I always loved snow as a kid and was glad to see my own kids enjoying it.
My “snow snob” side snickered at the southerners stocking up on bread and water [...]

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Coming Short with Thinking

February 4, 2010 Personal Musings

I am mad at congress.
I don’t care if they are Democrats or Republicans, I am sick of healthcare being treated as a political football.  How much more of a crisis do we need before we actually start working on a solution?  Why does each party have to sit on its side of the aisle shooting [...]

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Help Haiti

January 21, 2010 Personal Musings

“I thought you’d be over in Haiti,” a patient said when I walked into her room.
A pang of guilt hit me as I explained that I can’t leave work for long without risking not meeting payroll.  It’s a true fact about being in private practice: I am the commodity I sell, so my absence brings [...]

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Inspiring

January 17, 2010 Being a Doctor

One of my favorite patients died last week.
My reaction to this was not quite what you would think: I smiled.  No, I didn’t smile because of his death; I smiled because of his life.  I smiled because I got to be a part of that life.  His death wasn’t his tragic end, it was the [...]

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So Resolved

January 6, 2010 Being a Doctor

Every year it happens: people come to me telling of what they are going to be doing different in this fresh new year.  People are going to stop smoking, start exercising, and (especially) lose weight.  This year, I am among the resolvers.
Every year, most people fail.
Which makes me wonder what it is about us humans [...]

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My New Year’s Wish List

December 31, 2009 Personal Musings

This past year was a big year.  We got:

A new president, whose name rhymes with “llama” (which is cool)
A healthcare reform bill (results pending)
I got to meet a bunch of bloggers (including the South African blogger, Bongi)
I became a podcaster, joining Grammar Girl’s posse
Idaho remained in the union despite the underhanded actions of the plumbers’ [...]

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Real Life

December 2, 2009 Personal Musings

Real life happens.
I have overall tried to keep my blog somewhat independent of what goes on in real life.  I have done so for most of the past 3 1/2 years, but I am tired now.  My obsession with keeping enough of you visiting is not strong enough to get me writing things of substantial [...]

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Deflating

November 9, 2009 Being a Doctor

I logged on to our EMR from home last night.  That is one of the “benefits” of EMR – access to information from home and the ability to finish your charts when at home instead of hanging around the office to do it.  It really is a benefit; it’s also an anvil.  Seeing the long [...]

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Conventional Magic

November 4, 2009 American Medicine

OK.
Some liked it, some didn’t like it.  At least my recent post that equated alternative medicine with magic wasn’t ignored.
Now, perhaps it wasn’t clear to some of my readers, but the purpose of that post was not to critique alternative medicine.  The point was that people like magic foot baths better than doctors who practice [...]

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