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Apr.04.2009
This heart stuff ain’t no joke, honey. I’ve had so many Cat Scans that I must be radioactive by now. If you don’t know and I didn’t, a Cat Scan or CT scan, computerized axial tomography, is an x-ray procedure that combines many x-ray images with the aid of a computer to generate cross-sectional...
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Feb.17.2009
AWP was really nice -- met tons of wonderful, interesting people, and even more poorly dressed writers -- is it just me, or do half the poets need an extreme makeover?-- and pimped the hell out of Ping Pong, the journal I help edit. Hard to recovery and turn to the world of non-writers again. It...
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Nov.07.2008
"Better" collects surgeon Atul Gawande's recent essays on medicine in three categories--Diligence, Doing Right, and Ingenuity. Each essay, on topics as diverse as washing hands to minimize infections in hospitals and doctors participating in executions, is a marvel of case study and...
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Nov.03.2008
So I have never thought how to open one eye and close the other eye. This time I got it. I went into the surgery room. The nurse and optometrist put some eye drops and gave two shots to numb my right eye lid, preparing me for the surgery. My eye lid became numbed and then closed. So I was...
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Oct.12.2008
New Year's Eve 1997. It's three o'clock in the afternoon and nearly everyone is preparing for the night's celebrations. I picture people buying champagne, applying red nail polish, fussing with "Happy New Year" signs, making hors d'oeuvres while I sit in the waiting room of the neurology...
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