Anfractuous Notes

Alexins are alexiteric in particular and alexypharmic in general but useless in alexithymia.

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Death panels won't die

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Death panels are back... ...if they ever existed in the first place. But the concept lives on in the minds of Obamacare's political o...
Wednesday, May 07, 2014

Russian Blues

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Had to go to Russian consulate in New York, and have some observations. The crowd, anywhere from 5 to 40 people, waits outside. It is ple...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Maps of Us

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A fantastic collection of maps showing a tremendous spectrum of our lives. Play here .
Friday, March 07, 2014

Here is how to cure HIV.

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HIV depletes the number of CD4 + T cells, and causes AIDS by essentially erasing the immune system. To enter a T cell an HIV viral particl...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Reflection on House of Cards I

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If you were like me snowed a bit this past President's weekend, you might have found yourself drawn to the second season of "House...
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Thursday, February 06, 2014

Bloody mess

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My biggest fear is for the code pager to go off while I am in the restroom. It did go off angrily followed by the overhead PA system anno...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Nuts and Death

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According to the latest diet_vs_death research, nuts are good. On the heels of the PREDIMED strudy (AKA Mediterranean diet study) that show...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Perceptions of Medicare

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An interesting report published in NEJM revealed several public misconceptions regarding Medicare: more than 60% of respondents think th...
Monday, March 11, 2013

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Virtually all conversations about health care with my friends leaning Republican break down along the issue of personal vs social responsib...

Our own third-world country

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I have recently had a discussion with a friend of mine regarding international rotations during post-graduate medical training (A.K.A. resi...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Cleveland Clinic CEO: Health Reform is “Already in Place”

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Cleveland Clinic CEO: Health Reform is “Already in Place”
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Solstice. The first day of internship.

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The first day of internship fell on solstice. There is probably some symbolism in it, something about fertility. Ten days of orientation w...
Friday, June 08, 2012

eFax allows free receipt of faxes.

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Many blue moons ago I used to have a free eFax account to receive occasional faxes. Then eFax went rouge on its freebie crowd, yanked all f...
Monday, May 07, 2012

Alcoholism among Native Americans

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In the May 5 column , the Times Nicholas Kristof cites Anheuser-Busch, the company that makes the Budweiser and the bestselling beer in th...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Health disparities and IHS

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Indian Health Services (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, was created in 1955 to broader effort to refo...

Going West

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For the next four or five weeks I am working at Gallup Indian Medical Center (GIMC) in Gallup NM , on the border of the Navajo Reservation...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Praying with Patients

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In a cramped curriculum of medical education, there is hardly enough room for anything not directly related to learning how the human body w...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

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Being in the center of medical education, in fact its object – a medical student – affords a unique freedom that often does not survive as ...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Coversation is Interruption

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"There are qualities that have been ascribed to the stereotype of Jews that are also ascribed to the stereotype of women who step out ...
Monday, April 09, 2007

Would you notice frameless art?

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The Washington Post published this sweet article Monday, April 9th (which I got via Arts and Letters Daily's RSS , an aggregator of g...
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Sunday, April 01, 2007

Nuts and Bolts of CCLCM I

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They call it Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Mouthful of proper nouns and eponyms. Well, th...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Revisit of the Revisit

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Back from Cleveland where I went for the second look weekend. To second-look what? When was the first? you may ask. The first one was durin...
Friday, October 06, 2006

Preparedness

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"[Dr. Virginia Apgar] even carried a scalpel and a length of tubing in her purse, in case a passerby needed an emergency airway -- and,...
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Alexander Pine
New Haven, CT, United States
Former medical student at Cleveland Clinic College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, now medical resident at Yale New Haven Hospital.
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