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Blog housekeeping Blogging Humor

Enamored of a long run for a short slide

In today’s earlier post, a commenter stated: You sure do like that “long run for a short slide” phrase. I wondered: Is that true? Do I use that phrase too much? So, like any good blogger, I did a search. And what did I find? I found that, in the entire history of this blog […]

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Medicine Politics

It’ll take more than Shannon Brownlee’s bloviations to make this doctor’s head explode

Mike the Mad Biologist posts a link to and excerpt from an article that he seems to think will make “M.D.’s heads explode.” It didn’t. At least, not in the case of this M.D. Basically, it’s about physician reimbursement, a topic guaranteed provoke controversy, divided between those who think doctors are already overpaid (most non-physicians) […]

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Blogging Science

Vote for your favorite science blog

Thanks to fellow ScienceBlogger Abel Pharmboy, it would appear that I was mentioned in an article in The Scientist about science blogs in general (not ScienceBlogs in particular). I’m gratified at how many mentions of my humble blog I see in the comments, and far be it from me to toot my own horn… Oh, […]

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Cancer Medicine

Where does Georgetown get the money?

Last week, upon arriving back at my office after a day in clinic, I noticed an odd box sitting in my “in” box. I didn’t recall having ordered anything recently, and my first thought was that an order for the laboratory had somehow been delivered to my office instead of my lab by mistake. It’s […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Thomas Cowles twisting in the wind defending the “cancer boy” urban legend

I’m rather amused. No, I’m very amused. Yesterday, as you may recall, I discussed a seemingly alarming e-mail that’s going around about a 17-year-old boy with melanoma whom the State of California had allegedly removed from the custody of his mother because she and he had wanted to use “advanced natural medicine” to treat his […]