Anticipation
Category: Autobiographical Tidbit
Later that afternoon, after the wind has pushed mountains of clouds across the lake, a distant gray wall approaches the shore.
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July 29, 2006
Letting Go
Category: Lyrical
Doctors practice each day with the angel of unnecessary caution sweetly whispering to them "Don't do it - your patient will die."
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 12:27 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 26, 2006
Ghosts From the Northern Skies
Category: Autobiographical Tidbit
Echoes seem to carry across the lake and forest like a bell ringing over a mountain valley.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:35 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 23, 2006
Was My Great-Grandfather Tough, or Just Overheated?
Category: Autobiographical Tidbit
In the previous episode of "My Peculiar Summer" I might have mentioned that the fair city where your narrator resides was recently battered by a couple of storms. As I write this thousands of citizens still wail in the dark...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 10:15 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 21, 2006
Are You Tired, Rundown, Listless? Do You Poop Out at Parties?
Category: Commentary
"Fifty minutes after consuming the drinks, the performance of those who had had the energy drink started to slip, and they became significantly sleepier."
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 2:42 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 20, 2006
Holy Thunderbolts! Who Goosed Zeus Last Night?
Category: Autobiographical Tidbit
The fair city of St. Louis was hit by a brutal thunderstorm last night, knocking out the power to at least half of the metro area. Trees are down everywhere and it takes 15 minutes to go through a major...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 4:42 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 19, 2006
AskaSciBlogger Question for July 19th
Category: Science Bloggers
"Excuse me, Sir? I am a graduate of the University of Iowa medical school and have traveled here to offer myself up for study and hard work, so that I may become the type of physician that you would be proud of."
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:32 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 18, 2006
I Shun Red Meat - Does This Make Me A Weirdo?
Category: Commentary
In the spirit of live and let live, therefore, I ask my beloved family to let me nosh on soy nuts and olives while they chomp down on a burger.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:51 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 16, 2006
The Flight Plan
Category: Allegory
While visiting one of my patients in the hospital we reflected together on how he has been able to fight off his metastatic cancer for over two years, much longer than anyone would have ever predicted given how sick he...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 7:57 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 15, 2006
Best of The Cheerful Oncologist: "Good Doctors Leave Good Tracks"
Category: Lyrical
No other career combines the dual responsibilities of academic study and human contact as magnificently as medicine. As Sir William Osler said, "To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 1:52 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 12, 2006
AskaSciBlogger Question for July 13th
Category: Science Bloggers
Giveth me a break. Long after the human race has become extinct there will still be acrobatic arthropods and curious crustaceans toddling along the (now deserted) highways and byways of this planet.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 4:32 PM • 4 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Another Reason to Let Mom Do the Dishes!
Category: Commentary
"Housework Activity Helps Elderly Live Longer" Doing household chores such as washing dishes and climbing stairs can help older adults to live longer, a new study shows. Every now and then a study is released that just makes so much...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 11, 2006
"Slow Down, Doctor!"
Category: Lyrical
I can't seem to get my patients taken care of before another voice in the wilderness cries out for help. It reminds me of raking leaves on a Saturday in October when a sudden gust of wind scatters the pile across the yard and shakes the tree limbs, raining a thousand more golden stars down on one's head.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 1:01 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 7, 2006
News You Can Use! Page 2
Category: Humor
Here are some of the latest headlines from the blue and white orb majestically do-si-doing in some obscure galaxy so remote not even a Klingon war fleet could find it if they flew right under its nose. Your attention please:...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 6, 2006
AskaSciBlogger Question for July 6th
Category: Science Bloggers
I suppose it didn't help that Ira Levin flooded our popular culture with the worst possible example of human cloning years before Dolly the docile ovine dallier arose from the seafoam.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:28 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 5, 2006
Message from Coronary Arteries: "Remain Calm! All is Well!"
Category: Commentary
The obvious conclusion is that acute emotional stress, especially "negative" emotions can trigger ACS (acute coronary syndrome).
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 10:01 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 2, 2006
Cancer in the Great Outdoors
Category: Lyrical
What is it about standing beneath shady leaves, or watching miniature frogs leap into the water that erases memories of suffering?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:52 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
