Friday, July 6, 2007

You Are What You...Have?

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What makes us human? A capacity for language? Reason? Creativity? An ability to experience love, appreciate beauty, discern, relate? Our ge...
Thursday, July 5, 2007

Brief Oboe Update

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Yes, I've been practicing even on vacation. It's hard to find a good time and place in a hotel, but I managed to practice every othe...
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Racist Cookies? (a follow-up to yesterday's post)

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I remember these cookies (image used by permission ). In 1999 the Philippine government protested their name and the reference to them as ...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Patriotism, Identity, "Race," and Other Constructs

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Most people unfamiliar with a book I'm reading this summer might think from its protagonists' names, Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra and Marí...
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Monday, July 2, 2007

Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad...Resident?

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Today was supposedly the worst day this year to have to go to the hospital. July 1 is typically the first day of the training year for all r...
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Saturday, June 30, 2007

A Few Things You Should Almost Never Say to People

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"Are You NUTS?!" When I told people I was going to embark on medical school with a ten-month-old in tow, I got various versions of...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Composition and Decomposition

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I remember being afraid as I stood in line waiting to enter the anatomy lab for the first time in medical school. What I can't remember ...
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