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Oct 18, 2010, 12:41 am
Hemodynamics is on hiatus. Thanks for stopping by, though, and I am sure it will start back up at some point, in some form. In the meantime I share links and T-cell news at tcells.tumblr.com. Comment - Like
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Aug 30, 2010, 12:41 am
Photo: Jacob in the movie Twilight, being a mammal.
Sometimes when we're leaving for work, the cat follows us to the door. As we go out, there's a glass-paned door that we shut between her and us. She will have been following us, looking up at us. Then there's a sad little moment. As we put our sho... Comment - Like
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Jun 20, 2010, 9:23 am
Eric Balderas, a Harvard College sophomore studying molecular and cell biology, was recently granted a stay of deportation. Eric was picked up by immigration authorities after trying to use a Harvard ID card to get on a plane. His story is one of many arguments for the DREAM Act, which would enable ... Comment - Like
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Jun 6, 2010, 2:12 pm
I admit I only signed up for the AIDS Walk because L, the HIV social worker in my clinic, was the captain of the team and intercepted me on the way to the hospital cafeteria with her strategically placed table.
And when I got to the walk this morning, many of our "Team Members" had evidently content... Comment - Like
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May 15, 2010, 12:00 pm
Photo: Kaytee Riek, whose other photos of this recent demo can be found at kayteeriek.com
President Obama is making big mistakes on global AIDS. Click to read South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat explaining why.
See also:
TakeANumber.org
New York Times
Zackie Achmat in New York, May 13 2010: Comment - Like
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Apr 25, 2010, 1:26 am
For my zine, I wrote this; although my life changed in other ways shortly afterwards, and somehow that also meant that I stopped publishing my zine. Those were in the days before blogs, children; in the days of photocopiers when self-published writers had to go to the Leather Tongue video store and ... Comment - Like
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Apr 24, 2010, 11:58 pm
I was looking through old files for something else, and found this. Since you're reading this blog, you know what finally happened. Math was hard, but I stopped letting that stop me. I bought an algebra book, re-learned algebra and trigonometry, took science classes, went to medical school. Apparent... Comment - Like
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Apr 24, 2010, 10:10 am
Sue Lowden is a Republican running to capture Sen. Harry Reid's seat in Nevada. Recently she suggested that we should go back to the days when people paid their doctors directly, whether in money, or you know, if they didn't have the money right then, then maybe, barter, with, you know, like, chicke... Comment - Like
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Apr 21, 2010, 9:20 am
Photo: Jamie Oliver in Britain, where he transformed national school lunch policy.
Ms. Dr. Hemodynamics and I were having a little bit of TV time the other night, and Jamie Oliver was trying to convince the lunch ladies of West Virginia that cooking from scratch was a good idea, and railing against ... Comment - Like
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Apr 7, 2010, 9:28 am
The newspaper from Harlan, KY sends a reporter to the Montcoal mine disaster.
And though statistically, mining has become safer overall in recent years, that's in the context of technology that could make mining disasters entirely a thing of the past. Why aren't they a thing of the past? Here's a gl... Comment - Like
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Mar 28, 2010, 1:17 am
Unless Republicans in the Senate manage to somehow find a way to sink the nomination, it looks like Don Berwick will be the new Medicare/Medicaid chief. I think that is actually big news. It suggests that in the next phase of healthcare reform, Obama's emphasis will be quality improvement--and likel... Comment - Like
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Mar 22, 2010, 12:00 am
Nancy Pelosi knows how to count votes, and we all win.
This is a big deal.
It's not a great bill. But it's a lot better than no bill.
More soon. But I've got to mark the moment. Comment - Like
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Mar 21, 2010, 11:56 pm
Someone called Stupak a "baby killer" on the Senate floor. (But... isn't a baby killer a guy who votes against the Children's Health Insurance Program? I must be confused.)
Campbell, initially suspected as the lawmaker who shouted the phrase, told reporters that he didn't say it and believed that it... Comment - Like
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Mar 10, 2010, 10:30 pm
From the White House:
"President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Dr. Jill Biden, react while watching Sasha Obama and Maisy Biden, the Vice President's granddaughter, play in a basketball game in Chevy Chase, Md., Feb. 27, 2010. (Official White House Photo by ... Comment - Like
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Mar 10, 2010, 9:46 pm
The man who discovered PSA writes an op-ed piece arguing for scrapping it as a screening tool. Comment - Like
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Mar 3, 2010, 11:36 pm
New writing of mine, posted elsewhere (and broadcast on All Things Considered on 3/4/10):
"It doesn't take a CT scan to know that President Obama should keep exercising, watch his diet, and quit smoking. So deciding not to do a test like a coronary artery calcium CT scan isn't just about avoiding th... Comment - Like
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Feb 15, 2010, 11:08 am
Graph: Black tar heroin vs powder heroin, and HIV among injection drug users vs HIV among men who have sex with men, in a map of the US and Canada from Ciccarone and Bourgois 2003--click on the graph for a full-size picture.
Black tar heroin is moving east, says the LA Times, in this first part of a... Comment - Like
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Feb 7, 2010, 7:06 pm
It's certainly possible that nurses might report a doctor to bosses or regulators just to be spiteful. But the system has to make reporting easy, and safe, to make sure that quality issues don't get missed. That's what makes it such a travesty to criminally prosecute nurses for reporting concerns ab... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2010, 8:54 pm
iPhone photo in the lobby of the West Roxbury VA hospital. Maybe it shouldn't, because it's the same hospital and the same patients--with a few more younger guys back from Iraq and Afghanistan than the last time I was here--but the president and retired General Shinseki (now the chief of the VA) mak... Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2010, 9:53 am
I just spent three weeks in our local Veterans Administration system. Mention "VA" to any group of doctors and you are sure to hear funny stories; a great many doctors have at least some of their medical training within VA hospitals, and those hospitals are full of characters among both their staff ... Comment - Like
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Jan 4, 2010, 11:02 pm
Above: Radovan Karadzic, psychiatrist and perpetrator of the Srebrenica massacre and other atrocities in Bosnia. Below: Ikuo Hayashi, a neurosurgeon and one of the perpetrators of the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack.
Yet another doctor has apparently joined the ranks of violent absolutists, as a Jord... Comment - Like
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Dec 14, 2009, 12:32 am
Click for:
Coolest outfit ever.
I wanted a dress really bad at that age, and also I always loved Spiderman, and also, like him, I liked dinosaurs (he's holding one, and he's got a dinosaur book in the other hand), so, hey, I'm looking at this kid, and I'm saying,
Living the dream, young brother. Liv... Comment - Like
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