"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
January 29, 2007
Category: Patient Advocacy
I'm referring to the bizarre phenomenom of doctors who look upon certain illnesses as unworthy of the time, effort and expense involved in fighting them.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:43 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 28, 2007
Category: Patient Advocacy
Physicians harboring personality quirks, undiagnosed neuroses or simply bad attitudes may fail in their mission...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:32 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 27, 2007
Category: Patient Advocacy
Other days, though, Mount Olympus sends a thunderbolt or two down just to remind them that doctors are only doctors when they doctor - not when they ignore their responsibilities.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 11:44 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 25, 2007
Category: Patient Advocacy
As a fellow mucker who is doing his best to use the heavens for inspiration I offer my own list of five deadly sins doctors should avoid at all costs.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:16 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 23, 2007
Category: Commentary
Rubbing coffee on our hard-boiled eggheads just might grow hair? What's next - pouring Scotch whisky on our breakfast flakes to improve our...improve our...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:02 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 21, 2007
Category: Lyrical
Arnold lived in an era of violent intellectual turmoil (gee, sound familiar?) which is reflected in his body of work.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 7:58 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 18, 2007
Category: Commentary
Is caffeine good for you or is it so dangerous to users that they might as well fry their arteries in coconut oil?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 7:57 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 17, 2007
Category: Commentary
If you still don't understand how to reduce your risk of dying of cancer, you need to read up and then wise up.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:22 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 16, 2007
Category: Autobiographical Tidbit
Mirabile dictu, the electric company came by and replaced our downed power line this afternoon. Blogging will resume tout de suite, but first can I at least get the temperature in here above 60 degrees? (Up from 44, that is)....
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:28 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 14, 2007
Category: Autobiographical Tidbit
Once again a despicable ice storm has forced us out of our house...I'm currently living in a tent city run by some Food-For-Oil executives by the banks of the muddy Meramec River in Fenton, Missouri...unable to blog...am using a friend's...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 6:58 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 10, 2007
Category: Autobiographical Tidbit
KMnO4 + C6H12O6 + friction is not a way to impress girls. It is a nice way to get a new wardrobe (once released from the hospital).
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 2:42 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 9, 2007
Category: Commentary
"One should pour tea into the cup first. This is one of the most controversial points of all; indeed in every family in Britain there are probably two schools of thought on the subject. The milk-first school can bring forward...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:01 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 6, 2007
Category: Lyrical
These two little maxims seem connected so I would like to share them both: "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." -Norman Cousins (1915-1990) Of all the quotations...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 4:50 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 4, 2007
Category: Commentary
DUSP6! MMD! STAT1! ERBB3! LCK! Was ist diese? CB radio patter? Pilot to co-pilot chatter? 3rd-and-long huddle banter? Of course not - that would be too easy. These cryptograms represent five different genes found within non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC)...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 7:49 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 2, 2007
Category: Patient Advocacy
Only a nihilist would refuse to acknowledge that we are living longer and healthier lives with the help of modern medical drugs and treatments. Of course the nihilist has a secret weapon in his argument: the death rate is 100% on this planet and will always be 100% until the last upstanding citizen of Earth croaks.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:38 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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