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Appreciated care
As a patient, you do not want to be “interesting.” Being interesting typically means your symptoms are not coalescing into a standard diagnosis or for unknown reasons you…
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Book review: Being Mortal
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande Mr. Gawande is an excellent writer. He’s the kind of writer who writes stories, and then…
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I am below average
It’s one of those facts that gets brought up to illustrate how people don’t think rationally: way more than 50% of the population believes they are above average…
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That time of the month
By the time this is posted, it will be past that time of the month, but as it is… right now I’m in it. The last one or…
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What price, a life?
There’s the story about a guy who sees all these dying starfish washed up on a beach (why starfish? Probably because the name is cool) and sees a…
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Book review: The Children Money Can Buy
The Children Money Can Buy: Stories from the frontlines of foster care and adoption by Anne Moody. Ms. Moody is a social worker who got her first job…
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