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(a poem on flu protection) Game of Thrones, Meet Flu Season! If game of thrones were To be real, in this life, And the flu virus Swapped out in place of the knife, Would you want to prepare For the mean, deadly threat Or brace yourself, passive,
(the day I met a legend) On an otherwise ordinary Saturday afternoon, I walked to the ladies’ room of the Drake Hotel in Chicago with Dr. Pauline Rose Clance, the famous psychologist who coined the term Imposter Syndrome. I told her I had a question I wanted to get
I heard a joke the other day. It was uttered by a physician who was frustrated at having spent 45 minutes of her free time getting approval for a necessary patient test. She needed to vent. Her joke went something like this: Q: Under your insurance plan, do
Old is Such a Lonely Number. I was researching the topic of ‘loneliness’, as it pertains to the elderly, and came across a TIME article quoting some surprising data. It stated that: “.. seniors who lived with children were more likely to report a lack of companionship..”
23 and Me? I’m Not So Sure. (My thread from Twitter): 1/ Listening to Ann Wojcicki, the creator of @23andMe, on @Freakonomics the other day, a few thoughts came to mind. I find the #idea of genetic kit testing appealing, as a general consumer. Who wouldn’t want
Joining the Team. Back in my undergraduate days at UCLA, I joined a group of students who wanted to make a difference for patients, and I became a leader within its ranks. The group was called the “UCLA Stroke Team’. Our Mission? To get educated on symptoms and
I walked by some donuts the other day. They were sitting there, nestled comfortably behind that glass that separates us from them, like inmates in their sugary prison cell. They seemed to be looking up at us, in an almost teasing kind of way; I may have even caught a
Physicians Struggle. I struggled with the ‘burn’ of working as a physician in medicine for many years. I don’t quite think I even recognized that it was a ‘burn’ until I was practically melted down to the waxy remnants of a bare-boned me. It finally took for me to