"Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours." -Sir William Osler
My archives are located at Archives of the Cheerful Oncologist, Volume 2
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.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:39 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 10:16 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 2:39 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:50 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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."
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 4:05 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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."
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:37 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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?"
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 2:02 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 4:33 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 4:25 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 4:43 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 9, 2006
Category: Autobiographical Tidbit
Perhaps Afarensis and I are the only two bloggers left on Mother Earth who fret over the decline of the intelligent, scary and wonderfully provocative science fiction movie.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:46 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 7, 2006
Category: Science Bloggers
Since there is a nerd contest going on at ScienceBlogs I might as well reveal my score: What does this mean? Your nerdiness is: Somewhat nerdy. I mean face it, you are nerdier than about half the test takers. Hey,...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 5:28 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 6, 2006
Category: Anti-smoking
Somewhere in this country someone is laughing at you right now, just waiting for you to slap down another wad of your hard-earned dough for a carton.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:48 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 5, 2006
Category: The Art of Medicine
All doctors go through the disappointment of being fired. Some become incensed by the incident and foment resentment toward the very same person they are sworn to remedy. Very few ever get a second chance to help.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 5:54 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 1, 2006
Category: Lyrical
Then it dies. Autumn sweeps the last remnants of it into forgotten corners and we stand at the window, quivering with remembrance and mortality.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 10:12 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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