Musings of a Distractible Mind
Thoughts of an odd, but not harmful primary care physician.
About a month ago I got an invitation by John Schumann, who authorizes the Glass Hospital blog to go to Iowa. Now, I don’t consider going to Iowa a particularly bad thing, but it is an unusual place to be invited to. I am all in favor of corn and abundant use of the [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.15% offscrub jackets with code “jackets_save” Moving to the south is an eye-opening experience. First, there’s the friendliness of everyone; I remember the first time a stranger talked to me in the grocery store, it made me nervous. In Philadelphia, where I went to med school, anyone talking to you in the grocery store was [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.A thought struck me when reading an excellent post on Warmsocks’ blog. The vast majority of responses to my recent posts on doctor/patient relations have been positive. Yet a vocal minority of people have read what I wrote in a negative light – that I am somehow projecting my doctor arrogance into those posts and [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.My world changed four years ago today. Today is the 4th anniversary of when I started distractible blogging. Beginnings I had actually written a couple of posts on another blog called “Rob’s Odd Blog,” but it was panned by Oprah and Steve Jobs, so it never went far. I was also writing for Dmitriy at [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.Taking a break (or at least a slow-down) from writing has its risks. One of the things that has helped me over the past four years (yes, I am soon upon my 4th blog-o-versary) is that I kept writing. Writing begets writing. The more you write, the more you write. Once you start to slow [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.I have to confess, I really get into lists of the “Top X blogs.” X doesn’t have to equal “Medical;” I just like seeing what people find worthwhile. OK, I will also confess a mild obsession about where my blog stacks up. That obsession starts when you begin to blog and continues regardless of your [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.It’s interesting to see how different things are over at The Health Care Blog. First, it’s different to have to write “health care” instead of healthcare. I personally am all for not using up or resources by adding the space between the two words. Ihaveconsideredeliminatingspacesaltogether, but it gets confusing. Iwon’tdothat. One of the big differences [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.I was sitting in the third session of the medical blogger track at Blogworld Expo and noticed something. On the screen to the right of the speakers was a live feed from Twitter. It seemed that everything posted there had the word “Blogworld” in it, so I twittered the following: Like magic, my tweet went [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.It was a legitimate challenge. When I mentioned to a fellow blogger that I was appearing on NPR, and he raised a very important question: ”Is that really a good thing? I thought that the point of blogging was to pose a challenge to the mainstream media, but it seems like bloggers feel like they [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.I am sitting now in the medical blogger track at the Blogworld Expo. As is generally the case, I got here too late to bum around with the med bloggers last night. It happened when I went the the “Putting Patients First” summit in DC as well. I just seem to have that kind of [...]
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