In lieu of a Stupid Tuesday Question this week, I’ll write instead about a subject I will readily admit is, if not frankly stupid, then at least deeply frivolous. I’m talking, of course, about this past Sunday’s Emmy Awards. For… Continue Reading
[This post is one of an occasional number contributed by my good friend, who is the mother of a child with special needs.] by Rose Woodhouse In the 1840s, first in France and then the United States, a doctor named Edouard… Continue Reading
I don’t know if it’s worth cluttering up the space over on the main page, but I wanted to make a couple of small points about HPV that may help clarify my stance on mandatory vaccination (which I oppose). My… Continue Reading
Let me begin by dispensing with the easiest parts first. Michele Bachmann is an idiot. “I’m offended for all the little girls and parents that didn’t have a choice,” [Bachmann] said. (Actually, any parent can opt out on a child’s… Continue Reading
The other day, I was sitting and waiting with a co-worker for a meeting to start. As I spoke with her, she started singing short snippets of songs that sprang into her mind, plucked at random from words I had… Continue Reading
My favorite elective in medical school was my genetics rotation. I learned a lot of interesting and obscure facts, I made some good friends, and as luck would have it I was given the opportunity to write my first journal… Continue Reading
At the hospitals where I did my residency in New York City, the pediatrics department had its Grand Rounds every Tuesday morning. One of my favorite attending physicians was delivering a talk on hematopoietic stem cells on the morning of… Continue Reading
I started running regularly sometime within the past few years. I’ve always gotten some kind of regular exercise, which usually meant hitting the gym a few times every week. At some point I decided to go for the occasional short… Continue Reading
I had a sinking feeling in my gut when I spied this headline in the New York Times the other day: Adjusting, More M.D.’s Add M.B.A. Somewhere back in the murky depths of the Internet, I know I’ve posted about… Continue Reading
I’ll begin with the first of two disclaimers. I am not a sports fan. At all. For some reason I developed a liking for watching professional tennis (probably more to do with David Foster Wallace’s writing than anything else), but… Continue Reading