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  • Easter/Age

    My father called yesterday to let me know that one of his friends passed away from a heart attack. He was only a year older than my father. It was clear from the tone in his voice that he was thinking about his own mor…

  • Senseless

    So, I spent last Sunday afternoon in a audiophile store. Speakers on the floor for display ranged up to about 20,000 a pair and there were quite a lot of speakers around. I sampled DVD, BluRay, DVDA. No HDCD or SACDs …

  • Corpse

    Sometimes, when I look at a person under anesthesia, still, except for a mechanical rise and fall of the chest, I'm reminded of the first time that I looked at a dead body from the eyes of a doctor. As a first year in m…

  • Easter

    There are few things more frustrating to me than losing a long post. Well it happened. Sigh. Reconstruct.It's Easter evening. Christ is Risen indeed. My parents are visiting this weekend, and they are now spending t…

  • Bel Canto: Another Interlude

    "People love each other for all sorts of different reasons," Roxane said, her lack of Spanish keeping her innocent of the conversation, slow-roaster guinea pigs on a spit. "Most of the time we're loved for what we can d…

  • Hormones, Rings, and a couple other things...

    In the next couple of days, I'm going to have to get back to working hard-core on research, yet again. Before that begins ... (tomorrow!) I'm going to get a little more writing in and address a couple other things that …

  • Out of Order - Death

    Written on 6.10.2007, 8:30 pm CST. As the years go by, one encounters more and more death in the circles one frequents. Not a particularly cheerful way to re-enter the world of Xanga, but it seemed to be the most approp…

  • Doctor Who

    I just watched the Lazarus Experiment, episode 6 of the third season of the 2005 Doctor Who series. There are a lot of possible things to discuss, but before I launch into it, I wanted to make a couple observations. Th…

  • FragileA couple days ago, shortly after Christmas, while whizzing off to another procedure, I chanced to pass a patient being wheeled towards the CT scanner. She was young, maybe in her early 20's. There was a semicirc…

  • DeathI got an email earlier today with some horrible news. I have a couple of friends who just got married last year... a baby on the way, and the two were happy as a clam. Both physicians that I knew and were friends …

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