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Jan 25th

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Diet Soda Makes You Fat

Researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center recently presented strong data proving that diet soda makes us fat. They found that the more diet sodas a person drank, the more weight they gained. It doesn’t get much simpler than that. But it does get more serious than that. Overall, all soda drinkers (both sugar-sweetened and diet) gained weight compared to a control group that...

Jan 18th

America's Strange Attitudes Toward Food →

Americans actually don’t eat that many more calories than other Western countries. But we pay a lot less for our food.

Jan 16th

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I had an 101 year old patient today. Also very cute.

Dec 6th

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How Doctors Die

It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be by Ken Murray Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could triple a patient’s...

Dec 4th

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Nov 23rd

I appreciate funny and politically relevant test...

I was doing some continuing medical education questions today about DVT prophylaxis, here is one of them: “A 63 year old Wall street executive fell and broke his hip while running to get federal bail-out money. He underwent hip fracture surgery last night. He is obese (body mass index = 35) and has high cholesterol, diabetes mellitus type 2, and hypertension. Other than surgery and...

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Here is a video I took of a bird in my supermarket

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City Room: Police Force Wall Street Protesters Off... →

I witnessed this I will be posting pictures of it soon… At least 20 were arrested as the police tried to keep demonstrators from marching up the courthouse steps at Foley Square, sweeping them away in mesh netting.

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“U.S. congressmen should have to dress like Nascar drivers and wear the logos of...”

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Ever notice that "Death" and "Hated" are anagrams?

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Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire?

Oct 7th

“Hello Stormagedon, it’s the Doctor…here to help. Sh sh sh sh...”

– Dr. Who

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I don’t eat enough because I am taking care of people who eat too much I am half Zohan half Zoolander

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9/11

Americans killed on 9/11: 2,977 American Troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan: 6,204 American contractors killed in Iraq and Afghanistan: 2,300 Foreign coalition forces killed in Iraq and Afghanistan: 1,192 Minimum number of Iraqi civilians killed while US presence in Iraq: 102,339 Money spent on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: 1.3 Trillion dollars Total cost of 9/11 including physical...

Sep 11th