2008 Resolution No. 3: Uphold Magnanimity
Category: Psychobabble
I will not lose my temper when the restaurant hostess miscalculates my wait for a table by a factor of seven.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 6:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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December 27, 2007
2008 Resolution No. 2: Quit Prostituting My Taste Buds
Category: Psychobabble
I will not drink sugary sodas, no matter how many advertisements I see suggesting that I am a geek and a loser for avoiding them.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 6:04 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 26, 2007
2008 Resolution No. 1: Raise My Prices
Category: Psychobabble
I will not sell my self-composure to obnoxious drivers in exchange for a moment of Up-Yours-Charlie pissy rage.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 2:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 24, 2007
A Christmas Blessing
Category: Lyrical
Whether you live in good health or poor, may you travel well on your journey, and may your eyes face the horizon with courage.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 10:58 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 21, 2007
Your Doctor Just Might Be a Moron
Category: Humor
Go ahead and give me the list and I'll confess as to whether or not I fell for these myths; if fact, how do I know that I'm not in the right? Aren't doctors known for their stubbornness?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 11:04 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 20, 2007
More Bad News for the Uninsured
Category: Patient Advocacy
...as these secrets are transformed into promising medicines, the irony of the uninsured patient hangs in the air like the stench from a rotting carcass.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:07 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 19, 2007
"Is There a Ring of Debris Around Uranus?"
Category: Commentary
The art of writing a headline is tricky, as anyone who has read a newspaper knows, and we don't mean to disparage your natural abilities, but would you consider rewriting these examples, too?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:34 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
December 18, 2007
Cancer Death Rates Drop Again
Category: Commentary
to those who think, think, think about how to exploit the Byzantine inner workings of the cancer cell to bring it grievous physiological harm...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:17 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 16, 2007
Are You Smarter Than a Medical Student? Part II
Category: Humor
The playground ditty "Ring Around the Rosies" is thought to have referred to what epidemic?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 5:39 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 14, 2007
Are You Smarter Than A Medical Student?
Category: Humor
What better way to promote our citizen's intelligence than to give everybody an "A," right?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 10:38 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 12, 2007
Medicare to Lymphoma Patients: Drop Dead!
Category: Patient Advocacy
The irony in these two stories is enough to make a doc quit his practice and get a job advising people on why they are better off dead.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:05 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 11, 2007
Message to a New Friend
Category: Footnotes
It was a pleasure meeting you today. I truly enjoyed our time together and wish I could have stayed longer. Please pardon my forwardness, but I want to brag a bit about you. When I walked into your home I...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:01 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 7, 2007
Periodic Pushups Prevent Pessimistic Proclivities
Category: Commentary
The responses I get remind me of a teenage boy who has just been asked to take out the garbage...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 6:08 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 5, 2007
Al Gore, Call Your Office!
Category: Humor
To the amazement of the scientific community, the study revealed that carbon dioxide emissions were one third lower during the time period the students spent taking the test.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:25 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 4, 2007
"Friends I Hope We'll Always Be..."
Category: Health Care Policy
The implication of the article is that doctors don't follow their convictions because they're either morally lazy, afraid of retribution, or in cahoots with their colleagues to overlook each others' iniquities.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 11:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 2, 2007
The Death of a Jehovah's Witness
Category: Patient Advocacy
Why would cancer specialists agree to give induction chemotherapy for acute myelogenous leukemia to a patient whom they knew could not survive the treatment?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:41 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
