If You Read Arabic

Byadmin January 25, 2011

You might be interested in some coverage my research team got in Qatar, for our study on oncology decision making. (Link) Maybe one of you can translate it for me?

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Great Picture on Drug Development Targets
Byadmin May 13, 2013

Matthew Herper and Erin Carlyle at Forbes magazine recently put together a wonderful picture, showing what kinds of diseases pharmaceutical companies are targeting now in developing new drugs. The bigger the bubble, the larger the number of drugs under development. Further to the right, the deadlier the disease. Makes for fascinating picture: Several things strike…

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The Secrets of Creativity?
Byadmin May 17, 2012

The best thing about bad art is that it makes fodder for great reviews. Take the opening line of Mina Strohminger’s review of Colin McGee’s “The Meaning of Disgust”: “In disgust research,” she writes in The Journal of Aesthetics and Critical Art, “there is shit, and then there is bullshit.”
Guess which category she thinks McGee’s book falls under?
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Quote of the Day
Byadmin March 12, 2014

“When many remedies are proposed for a disease, that means the disease is incurable.” -Anton Chekhov (Click here to view comments)

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Before Anesthesia
Byadmin August 21, 2013

In an article from the Atlantic last January, Joshua Lang wrote a wonderful article about the challenge of deciding whether surgical anesthesia actually makes people unconscious, or whether people remember parts of their surgery and are traumatized by them later. In the article, he quotes George Wilson, a Scottish chemist who had his foot amputated…

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On Improving Communication
Byadmin June 19, 2014

“The mistake is to think that communications will solve the problems of communication, that better wiring will eliminate the ghosts.” —John Durham Peters (Click here to view comments)

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A Third Hand Quote, but a Great One
Byadmin March 29, 2013

I recently heard Dan Sulmasy give an ethics talk at a conference. Like me, Dan is a general internist. In his talk, he quoted a former President of the Society of General Internal Medicine and I thought I’d pass the quote along. That former President was Nicole Lurie, who now works for the federal government…

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If You Read Arabic

Great Picture on Drug Development Targets

The Secrets of Creativity?

Quote of the Day

Before Anesthesia

On Improving Communication

A Third Hand Quote, but a Great One

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