September 28, 2006
Category: Allegory
We doctors sometimes forget that part of healing is to give the spirit a chance to stand up and breathe again, to let the storm pass before ordering the journey to resume.
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Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:39 PM • 3 Comments •
September 27, 2006
Category: Commentary
"Red Wine Slows Brain Cell Damage In Mice" Why do mice always get to receive the newest advances in medical care? Don't these scientists know that myself and probably several of my fellow ScienceBloggers would gladly volunteer for perilous experiments...
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Posted by Craig Hildreth at 10:16 PM • 7 Comments •
September 25, 2006
Category: Book Review
Bliss has mastered the reams of material chronicling Cushing's life and fashioned an engaging narrative of the extraordinary doctor's career. Anyone with any interest in the history of medicine will find this biography wonderful to delve into.
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Posted by Craig Hildreth at 2:39 PM • 3 Comments •
September 23, 2006
Category: Autobiographical Tidbit
Tonight is Saturday night, and in honor of this traditional "Fright Night" I would like to present what I consider to be the most frightening scenes ever created in the history of cinema.
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Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:50 PM • 7 Comments •
September 21, 2006
Category: Allegory
"When the final runner reaches the gates of the nucleus he gives the baton to the keepers within, who use it to awaken a murdering army of invaders."
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Posted by Craig Hildreth at 4:05 PM • 4 Comments •
September 18, 2006
Category: Patient Advocacy
"The hateful patient can ruin your ability to practice good medicine and cannot be ignored. Whenever you meet him or her you must be brave and honest, and overcome the hatred no matter what it takes."
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Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:37 PM • 15 Comments •
September 15, 2006
Category: Autobiographical Tidbit
Watching a good science fiction movie is one of the most enjoyable pastimes available to anyone who has ever looked up into the sky at night and asked "Why?"
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Posted by Craig Hildreth at 2:02 PM • 2 Comments •
September 14, 2006
Category: Commentary
Excuse us, but did we ask you to fix a tuna-fish sandwich? What, are you trying to induce a technicolor yawn?
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Posted by Craig Hildreth at 4:33 PM • 8 Comments •
September 13, 2006
Category: Lyrical
Every day I pray for someone to unlock the crucial secret of the aberrant cell's immortality, so that it can be exploited to the detriment of its unnatural reign over us.
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Posted by Craig Hildreth at 4:25 PM • 5 Comments •
September 10, 2006
Category: Patient Advocacy
I am amazed when I hear again and again that a doctor "didn't say much" about a patient's recent diagnosis. Is the physician really ignorant or too busy to educate the patient, or is the subject bypassed because he or she has nothing encouraging to say?
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Posted by Craig Hildreth at 4:43 PM • 12 Comments •