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Upcoming web video chat thingamabob

Byadmin February 24, 2011

Here are some details on a live web chat I’m having on Friday. Feel free to send in some fun questions.

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Name That President
Byadmin February 7, 2014

Read the following quote, and try to guess which U.S. president made this statement: “A responsible budget is not our only weapon to control inflation. We must act now to protect all Americans from healthcare costs that are rising $1 million per hour, 24 hours a day, doubling every 5 years. We must take control…

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If Batman Was Your Doctor
Byadmin December 9, 2013

I thought I would pass along this hilarious cartoon, suggesting a new way to “nudge” patients to use fewer antibiotics. Of course that nudge requires your doctor to be Batman, and Batman to be a pretty assertive type of physician: (Click here to view comments)

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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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Can Comics Improve Medical Care?
Byadmin October 28, 2013

Take a look at this wonderful video where a physician and a nurse explain how comic books, what they called “graphic medicine”, can improve medical care. You might also want to check out the website of the graphic medicine collaborative they have pulled together. (Click here to view comments)

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Too Many Opinions?
Byadmin April 10, 2013

Based on today’s Duke Opinion Page, I’m beginning to wonder if I have too many opinions. Something my wife has been telling me for years! (Click here to view comments)

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On How Politics Creates Enemies
Byadmin April 4, 2013

John Adams, second president of the United States, believed that politicians should refrain from talking too much in political settings: “A public speaker who inserts himself, or was urged by others into the conduct of affairs, by daily exertions to justify his measures and answer the objections of opponents, makes himself too familiar with the…

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Upcoming web video chat thingamabob

Name That President

If Batman Was Your Doctor

The Secrets of Creativity?

Can Comics Improve Medical Care?

Too Many Opinions?

On How Politics Creates Enemies

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