"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
April 29, 2007
Category: Humor
I was so impressed by the thoughts of Leonard I took the liberty of altering them slightly, if only to serve as an updated guideline for budding physicians everywhere.
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April 26, 2007
Category: Commentary
Doctors have been receiving free items from Big Pharma (hereafter referred to as BP) for decades; why are these researchers wasting our precious natural resources by once again printing the obvious?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 1:52 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2007
Category: Commentary
I know we doctors can be absent-minded, but I must be really out of it - I had no idea Vice President Cheney was diagnosed with a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of the lower extremity in early March. He had...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:29 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 23, 2007
Category: Lyrical
If it sees you sitting quietly it drills into your mind, to infect it with the foul worms of hopelessness.
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April 21, 2007
Category: Patient Advocacy
Even though your body is healed, there is a part of you still thrashing about in the chaos and dread that comes with this disease. I want you to know that although this is distressing it is a natural part of recovery.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 6:08 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 19, 2007
Category: Humor
1981, Columbus, Ohio: Third year medical student Bryan Sasser begins his radiology rotation at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is assigned to Dr. Lloyd Vanderspiegle, Professor of Radiology, who has been working alone the past four years...
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April 17, 2007
Category: Commentary
As more and more baby boomers enter their golden years, the effects of years of weight training, organized sports and creeping avoirdupois (the last being more likely to apply to most of us) leave their toll upon the joints.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:05 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 16, 2007
Category: Commentary
Please remember all those who were murdered or injured at Virginia Tech in your prayers....
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April 15, 2007
Category: Literary
Housman self-published his first volume of poetry, A Shropshire Lad, just as the Boer War (followed by the World War) aroused a haunting urgency for solace in the British people. His volumes began to sell, and Housman's legacy as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century was building.
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April 12, 2007
Category: Humor
Three weeks later a prominent surgeon, Sir Norwood Holsapple, purchases a similar stethoscope from Leared and discovers that the tubing connecting the diaphragm with the earpieces melts in the summer heat.
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April 11, 2007
Category: Commentary
"The average overall survival for nodal marginal zone lymphoma is only five years; Senator Thompson stated his lymphoma was in a lymph node, therefore can you tell us what the typical prognosis is for a patient with the exact type, stage, FLIPI prognostic index and age as Mr. Thompson?"
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April 10, 2007
Category: Commentary
Remember those days when you and your friends came stamping in after a shivering January afternoon on the local sledding hill? Didn't your mother have a steaming mug of hot cocoa waiting on the kitchen table?
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April 9, 2007
Category: Humor
It was the fear of Sir William's critical gaze that led interns to create what is now called the "V. A. neuro test," which consists of asking the veteran to take a urine cup, go into the bathroom and bring back a specimen.
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April 4, 2007
Category: Commentary
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation said Wednesday it would spend $500 million over the next five years to combat an "epidemic" of childhood obesity. This can only be interpreted as good news for those of us who are saddened by...
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April 3, 2007
Category: Patient Advocacy
Asking myself, "What is behind the mask I see before me?", I thought I sensed that something and tried to put it into words. This is what tumbled forth:
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:11 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 1, 2007
Category: Literary
Before reading the following poem, first take a moment to think of the unexpected events in your life. Think of disappointments and unwanted challenges, of the sudden whirlwind of chaos that blusters and then, as quickly as a traveling storm, rushes past...
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