August 2011
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Aug 30th
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By the way...
Tomorrow is the big day. Step 2 CK, it’s about time we meet. Wish me luck.
Aug 25th
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Aug 25th
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12 year old boy delivers his own baby brother →
Whoa.
Aug 25th
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Aug 19th
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Aug 19th
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Aug 19th
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Aug 18th
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Aug 18th
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Stress can literally break your heart.  →
I was just reading about Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or “broken heart syndrome” when I came across this “20 Things You Didn’t Know About Stress” list in Discover. Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy is when the bottom of the heart balloons into the shape of a pot (a tako-tsubo) used in Japan to trap octopus. Most often occurring in postmenopausal women, grief or another extreme...
Aug 17th
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Aug 15th
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WatchWatch
Central Park Dance Skaters! When I lived in San Diego, I really wanted to join the Derby Dolls but was exceptionally frightened of getting my ass kicked. Fortunately, I have found a home and happy skating family here in New York! After seeing these awesome people in the park one day, I got skates and started skating with them on the weekends as a nice break (until I injured my hand). What a...
Aug 12th
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Aug 11th
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Aug 9th
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Aug 8th
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The Phantom Menace of Sleep Deprived Doctors →
Great NY Times article from Friday… Interns can no longer work the 24 hour shifts of medicine’s historically hazing past. Surprisingly, studies have shown that this actually has not made a huge impact on medical errors. It is not only the sleep-deprivation of doctors that is the problem… It’s procedures like inadequate, interrupted sign outs and operational management...
Aug 8th
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Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings… My new favorite TV show.
Aug 7th
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Aug 5th
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Healthy NYC school lunches! →
NYC public school lunches… Ahead of the nation in the fight against childhood obesity. A great piece on healthy eating in NY public schools. It is possible to eat healthy at $2.67 a day and the food looked pretty yummy.
Aug 5th
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Aug 3rd
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Aug 3rd
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Aug 1st
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6 am train
I know I am on time when two blond Russian women pass me on the platform. Deeply engaged in their conversations, they walk past me and some how acknowledge their own clock reaffirmed by my presence. I stand by the first billboard that sporadically changes knowing that as soon as the new one is laid down, someone will splice it up and add their own grammatically incorrect commentary. The...
Aug 1st
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