Archive for April, 2007

Med Student Duck Hunt–on Laughter and the Best Medicine respond to this

Med Student Duck Hunt–on Laughter and the Best Medicine

It’s odd. I have yet to don a white coat or take a patient’s blood pressure, and yet medical culture has already influenced how I think about certain specialties and how I perceive myself as fitting into them. In part, this is because I come from a medical family–both my parents are psychiatrists (Yeah, I [...]

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Deconstructing Addison’s Blackbirds and Cheery Trees 2 responses

Deconstructing Addison’s Blackbirds and Cheery Trees

Last night, I discovered a wonderful quotation. Because of it, I dreamt myself into an a sunny world without sky or ground but was everywhere filled with a loose matrix of flowering cherry boughs and small flitting blackbirds. Dreams often show us the importance of things we might otherwise ignore. So when I woke , [...]

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