He’s Not Just Unusual Or Even Unusualler Than Most; He’s The Unusualist Raymond Crowe describes himself as “Australia’s only unusualist.” I am unsure why Australia has one at all or why it has no more than one. Perhaps there is an immigration quota. I am also unaware of the number of unusualists populating other countries. [...]
Entries from September 11th, 2007
The Shadow Knows – Great Shadow Puppets
September 11th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
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Why Paying For Preventive Care Is A Bad Bet For Health Insurers
September 11th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
And Why Presidential Candidates Are Desperately Trying To Come Up With A Better Healthcare Plan – Or Should Be Anyone interested in the causes of the healthcare crisis in this country, examples of the law of unintended consequences, or the impact of economics on everyday life would do well to note today’s AlignMap1 post, How [...]
Tags: patient compliance
An Homage To Nursing
September 10th, 2007 · Comments Off · Self-Referential
DrHGuy Meets The Director Of Nursing The Director of Nursing at the Medical Center where DrHGuy served his residency once remarked to him that during her own training at that same institution, her nursing class was taught to stand respectfully when a doctor entered the nursing station and to serve properly chilled orange juice to [...]
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Rejection Letters To Authors That Were Mistakes and How To Buy Goods Online That Aren't
September 9th, 2007 · Comments Off · Media
Cyber-Bookmarks From DrHGuy: 9 September 2007 Cyber-Bookmarks From DrHGuy are annotated links to arguably worthwhile, recently published online reading, new or revised websites of potential utility or ostensible interest, and other internet-accessible experiences that, were it not for the casually collected, cavalierly collated, & capriciously collocated components comprising these posts, could easily be overlooked – [...]
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Needlework by Julie Showalter – Chapter 5
September 8th, 2007 · Comments Off · Julie's Needlework
Julie Showalter Julie Showalter was my much-beloved, fiercely smart, extraordinarily sexy wife, who died in 1999 from cancer diagnosed the week of our wedding nearly 20 years earlier. She was also a prize-winning writer. This blog includes many other posts about her and the unlikely but true story of our romance (See Julie FAQ) as [...]
Powering Up InFlight
September 7th, 2007 · Comments Off · Aha! Items
A Visit To The Heck of a Guy Hardware Store More than nine months have passed since the Heck of a Guy blog last showcased a non-virtual, three-dimensional, hold it in your hand & show it off to your buddy hunk-o-hardware sort of tool.1 That drought has been broken by a nifty item (pictured below) [...]
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The Presidential Campaign, Preventive Care, and Patient Compliance
September 6th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
John Edwards On Patient Compliance & Bloggers On John Edwards If you are both obsessed with the bioethical dilemmas implicit in patient compliance and fascinated by nuances of public health policy pronouncements made by presidential candidates in locations like Tipton, Iowa – and really now, who isn’t? – then you, my friend, are in luck: [...]
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Aspens Alight
September 5th, 2007 · Comments Off · Photos-Lord of Leisure
The Lord of Leisure1 Photo Gallery The Lord of Leisure writes: My favorite method for photographing aspens is using back lighting to make the distinctive yellow of that tree pop before the viewer’s eyes. Therefore, it proved no surprise that the late September day when this shot was taken near Aspen was plagued by clouds. [...]
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Great Photos, Great Hoaxes, Great Speeches
September 4th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Media
DrHGuy Cyber-Bookmarks: 4 September 2007 Cyber-Bookmarks From DrHGuy are annotated links to arguably worthwhile, recently published online reading, new or revised websites of potential utility or ostensible interest, and other internet-accessible experiences that, were it not for the casually collected, cavalierly collated, & capriciously collocated components comprising these posts, could easily be overlooked – which [...]
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Lists Of Top Songs and Wikipedia Fudges and A Pro-Exclamation Mark Essay Under The Google Sky
September 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off · Media, Music
DrHGuy Cyber-Bookmarks: 3 September 2007 Cyber-Bookmarks From DrHGuy are annotated links to arguably worthwhile, recently published online reading, new or revised websites of potential utility or ostensible interest, and other internet-accessible experiences that, were it not for the casually collected, cavalierly collated, & capriciously collocated components comprising these posts, could easily be overlooked – which [...]
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