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I saw my friend Ramona’s post and multiple posts on twitter about Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty earlier today yesterday. It’s past midnight and I know I am late.
I initially did not want to write anything. My reasoning was that any medical person in my country could fill volumes with the gut-wrenching instances of [...]

F I E L D W O R K . Ammampuram, originally uploaded by © Claude Renault.

Brings back memories of my ancestral village!
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dEr Dr. Pulmo,
tnx 4 referring yr patient Mr.X.
I found dat d CT scan of hs thorax showd a mild pleural effusion on d ryt cYd. there’s no abnormality n d lungs n mediastinum. I dnt tnk tube drainage or needl aspiration S needed @ dis point n tym.
We cUd w8 n woch d clinical [...]

My good friend Dr. Ramona Bates, plastic surgeon and quilter extraordinaire from Little Rock, AR, is the host of the latest edition of SurgeXperiences, the blog carnival of all things surgical.
She has done a great job (as usual) with posts that rival the weekly Medical Grand Rounds.
Suture for a Living: SurgeXperiences 208.

Welcome to the latest [...]

Thanks to Ves for tweeting about this article in Popular Mechanics
AllergyNotes 100 Skills Every Man Should Know: 2008’s Ultimate DIY List http://tinyurl.com/6hqp43 about 6 hours ago from web

100 Skills Every Man Should Know: 2008’s Ultimate DIY List

Brains and charm are fine, but a real guy needs to know how to do real [...]

From Shadowfax

Read the rest of the story at Shadowfax’s blog…
Movin’ Meat: Something you don’t see every day.
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the greatness of this man was his simplicity

Generations to come, it may be, will scarcely believe that such a one, as this, ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. - Albert Einstein

October 2 is Gandhi Jayanti and International Day of Non-violence.
Some quotations…

An eye for an eye will make the whole world [...]

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Via: Police release X-ray of teen stabbed in head | UK | Reuters.
PS. Technically, these are CT scanograms, not radiographs. Never x-rays!
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