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  • It's nice to know the Scut Monkey cartoonist is still alive and well. Absent, however, is my specialty. I'm OK with that.

  • House is back!

    Season three of House, M.D. just came out on DVD. Guess who's getting it Netflix'd? Heck, yeah! Old episodes of Frasier are good, but the drama, pathos, intricate character studies, and (granted: melodramatic, unrealisti…

  • A day off

    When you're guaranteed only four days off a month, it would be understandable to want to make them the most spectacular, enjoyable, and exciting days of the month. But I'm not like every other freak of the hospital. I do…

  • Like weeds

    According to my records (i.e., this blog), it's been three-and-a-half months since anyone has compared me to a martial arts movie star. I was aiming for six. Alas, it was not to be.I was rounding in the hospital when a r…

  • Obituary

    I attended the largest high school in Oregon, with nearly 2,400 students in four grades. The state university I went for undergrad boasted more than 40,000 students and a stadium that could fit 109,000. My medical school…

  • The education of a resident

    It's hard to explain to someone who's never seen an operation what it means to be a resident in the OR. Many people think an operation as a gigantic, single breath-holding spell that requires mental discipline and sadist…

  • A set-up

    For my family's Labor Day holiday barbecue, I met several of my mom's old friends from high school. Whenever my mom reunites with old classmates from the motherland, they usually engage in wickedly fast and schoolgirlish…

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