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Trump’s Narcissism and the Goldwater Rule

2018.11.24 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment
Trump's narcissism, Goldwater rule

Donald Trump’s narcissism is a large concern, but so is the Goldwater Rule, which insists that we should ignore the 300 pound menace in the Oval Office.

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Posted in: Medicine, Politics Tagged: Medicine, Partisan Politics, Trump

What to Say to a Rape Victim

2017.08.03 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
What to say to a rape victim, to someone who struggles with violaton and shame

What do you say to the rape victim, what can you tell her that might help her begin the process of healing? After 30 years in the emergency room, this is my best attempt.

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Posted in: Education, Knowledge Tagged: Medicine, Wisdom

Advice for New Parents

2017.07.20 by Bookscrounger 4 Comments
Child Reading, New Parents

Advice for New Parents: ‘Read to your children’; how an ER doc became a primary care doc, and began changing the world.

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Posted in: Books, Education, Medicine Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Medicine, Teaching, Tolerance, Wisdom

Human Prosperity

2017.06.26 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments

Human prosperity has increased dramatically in the past 100 years. But we tend to focus on the glitzy technology, and overlook the big reasons for it.

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Posted in: Biology, Knowledge, Medicine, Politics Tagged: Medicine

Outrageous Lebanese Genetics

2017.06.19 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

Lebanese Genetics sounds boring, but the Lebanese may be the most stereotypical ethnic group around, an inheritance from the Phoenicians.

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Posted in: Biology, Medicine Tagged: Medicine, Small Evolution, Sociobiology, Wisdom

Rising Medical Costs

2016.07.18 by Bookscrounger 12 Comments

Rising medical costs affect all of us. Health insurance prices are through the roof, drug prices are through the roof, the price of medical services is through the roof. My concern is that we have no easy remedy for any of it.

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Posted in: Medicine, Odds & Ends, Politics Tagged: Liberal and Conservative, Medicine, Wisdom

How Many Brains Do We Have?

2016.04.06 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

If you live in Acadiana, you should check out a current-events talk show on KRVS, ‘Bayou to Beltway‘.  The host, Pearson Cross, was the Department Head of Political Science here at the University for some years, and if you keep up with Louisiana politics you have seen him quoted in papers nationwide.  He has become … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Biology, Knowledge, Medicine, Politics Tagged: Medicine

Women in Medicine & Life

2016.03.25 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

I remember one of my med school classmates, a woman who told us about how she knew when she was very young that she would be a doctor when she grew up.  She had no doubt about that. “What I couldn’t figure out,” she explained, “was how I was going to become a man.” It … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Education, Medicine Tagged: Medicine

AIDS Impact

2016.01.28 by Bookscrounger 3 Comments
AIDS ribbons, Tolerance

The aids impact went far beyond the victims, because it changed the rest of us and — perhaps — created a more tolerant and compassionate world.

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Posted in: Biology, Medicine Tagged: Medicine, Tolerance, Wisdom

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