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Oct.07.2010
My name is Mark Sutton. I'm a twenty-two year old medical student and I hate my life. I was born and raised in Northwest Indiana, 8,035.34 days to be exact. My father used to be a certified police firearms instructor for the NRA. I've spent about 192,848.04 hours watching him pour molten metal into...
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Sep.11.2010
http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=13382
this is a link to a review posted in a database of art, literature, film and music on medicine and healing. I am jubilant about having my book of poetry included right between Chekov and Clifton! I am proud of my book but Marilyn...
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Aug.07.2010
From our ongoing chronicles of "Dogs Are Man's Best Friend," the following heart-warming tale from Reuters. --Earl Merkel ---- Dog chews off Michigan man's toe, saves his life Wed, Aug 4 2010DETROIT (Reuters) - A Michigan man credited his dog with saving his life by chewing off his...
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Aug.06.2010
Falling in love is a sure way to tempt fate. I had no choice from the moment I met Copper; it was love at first sight. Here was this big, intelligent, muscular guy with soft brown eyes, and a big heart.
A week later, against protests from family and friends, Copper moved in with me. Family were...
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Jul.06.2010
By Kathy Crowley
“When faced with the opportunity to read a book by someone who isn’t by profession a writer, I always go for the doctor.” —Stephen J Dubner
(And can I just say here, Mr. Dubner, doctor-writers everywhere – and their publishers — thank you.)
I write fiction, most of the time,...
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Feb.05.2010
The first book I wrote about medicine, Singular Intimacies, did not start out as a book. It started out as a breather—an exhalation, you might say—after a decade of medical training at Bellevue Hospital. After ten years of exams, hospitals, illness and death, I needed some air.
I left...
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Jan.26.2010
Understanding how a patient makes sense of chronic or disabling illness can be critical to the effective treatment of that illness. Repairing the body doesn’t necessarily repair the life. Patients must confront changes to their bodies and in how they live their lives, psychological...
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Jan.24.2010
It is now a common practice for first year medical students to take part in a ceremony honoring the donors of cadavers used in dissection for the teaching of anatomy. The manner of the students’ participation is up to them; the reading of poetry, including original poems is not uncommon....
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Jan.06.2010
No puppy blog this time. Only the faintest tinge of humor. I share with you a medical caveat based on personal experience. But first, a relevant excerpt from that-book-that-has-everything, my novel Highway To Oblivion:
“Patina was being smothered by a dirty rag held by an amorphous hand...
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Nov.26.2009
As a primary care internist, I spend a lot of time focusing on preventative health. There are all sorts of screening tests—mammograms, colonoscopies, PSA tests—but none of these actually “prevent” disease. They are designed to find disease at an early stage, allowing treatment that, ideally,...
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