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The worst headache…
I was driving to work, later than usual due to some clinginess on J’s part. I was heading north on I-95, listening to the non-stop coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting last week, when my phone rang. The display on my car showed a number I didn’t recognize. I hit the “Answer” button.…
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An unexpected benefit of implementing EMR
This blog has been mostly a place for me to record my life with boys, but here’s a completely different subject, just for a change: On January 3 of this year, the clinic I work in went “live” with an EMR – electronic medical record system. Our entire university medical campus is slowly implementing the…
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Just came across an interesting science blog…
Interesting blog that I just learned about…my eye was caught by this title: Level of HIV virus in the blood is major determinant of sexual transmission | Science Speaks: HIV & TB News. although it doesn’t really say much that’s new; as we knew already from other studies – “Simply put, the higher the level…
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Tomorrow: Haiti!
Getting ready to fly to Haiti (at an un-Godly hour tomorrow morning – ugh!) I’m excited about the weather forecast there – high in the low/mid-80’s and lows in the mid-60’s – perfect! I’ll be staying at the Hotel Montana – which looks very nice, and has a pool, and a fitness center, as well…
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thinking about culture differences
i attended a talk yesterday about the “Ethics of Bedside Rationing” – mostly focused on the question of who gets scarce medical resources like kidney and liver transplants… a colleague (someone not born in the U.S.) asked a question about whether it would matter in the choice betwee two identically-situated transplant candidates (same prognosis before…