An Update to the Seatbelt Story

Tracy 12/17/2005
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Many of you will remember this post about a guy who became paralyzed in a car accident. Well, I saw him in the hospital the other day. As a medical student, it’s not often that you get to see patients …

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Duh – it’s war!

Tracy 10/6/2005
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Here are some poll numbers on how people approve or disapprove of Bush’s job lately (thanks Bob). Quite interesting. It certainly does seem the tide is turning. I’ve read other things in which people explain why they have changed their …

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Wal-Mart Update

Tracy 7/28/2005
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Hey, check this out! Wal-Mart is reversing its position on selling the Pensacola News Journal. Ha! You can read the background for the story here.

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Wal-Mart Tactics

Tracy 7/27/2005
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Here’s a link to a story about an opinion piece written in a Pensacola newspaper that criticizes Wal-Mart, and the subsequent retaliation by Wal-Mart against the newspaper. In the Pensacola News Journal in June, columnist Mark O’Brian wrote a piece …

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Stuffers and Packers

Tracy 7/18/2005
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Recently I learned the difference between stuffers and packers. Both terms refer to people who swallow bagged drugs or put them in their rectums to avoid detection by law enforcement. In the world of emergency medicine, packers are people who …

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Wear your stupid seat belt

Tracy 7/1/2005
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In medical school, I just finished eight weeks of surgery. As part of my surgery rotation, I did four weeks of trauma surgery. The trauma team is the bunch of surgeons that takes care of people who suffer bad trauma …

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Oh Damn!

Tracy 7/1/2005
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Well, well, well. What a surprise. Here we are, all caught with our pants down waiting for Justice Rehnquist to resign, when it’s Justice O’Conner who is leaving the bench. Get ready for a fight. Open thread…

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What if?

Tracy 4/21/2005
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It’s not going so well for Bush and the Republicans. DeLay’s in trouble. Approval ratings are down. The Schiavo fiasco did not go down well. Bush’s Social Security non-proposal proposal is a bomb. The stock market is tanking. Oil prices …

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Misinformation

Tracy 4/14/2005
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Arg! The conservatives in government are spreading misinformation about how to protect young people from sexually transmitted diseases on a new website. Remember that post in which I had a little aside about how the right seems more willing to …

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Ethics Case #2: Rebecca

Tracy 4/13/2005
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Here’s another ethics case entitled “When agreeing with the patient is not enough: a schizophrenic woman requests pregnancy termination” from the journal General Hospital Psychiatry (Volume 26, Issue 6 , November-December 2004, Pages 475-480.) [full text is subscription only] Rebecca …

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Funny video clips of our fearless leader

Tracy 4/13/2005
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A lit’l bit-o-humor to brighten your day… …two very funny video clips of Dubya.

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These people are scary!

Tracy 4/9/2005
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Here’s a link to a Washington Post article about how conservatives are calling for impeachment of judges they don’t like. These people are scary. The thing that really struck me was that they are basically calling for the abolition of …

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Why do they do that?

Tracy 4/1/2005
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I was writing an email to my moderate Republican pro-life Catholic mother the other day, and a thought popped into my head. Why do many far right Christians feel a need for everyone around them to agree with them? It’s …

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Evolution vs. Creationism

Tracy 3/29/2005
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For those of you interested in this debate, here’s a great site devoted to discussion of the debate from a mainstream scientific point of view: Talk.Origins. It has lots and lots of resources. I was particularly impressed by the FAQ …

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Freedom vs. Life

Tracy 3/29/2005
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Here’s a searing commentary at Pandagon. A little quote: Anyway, the thing about this stupid “culture of life” phrase is not just the hypocrisy. I have also noticed that two values that BushCo likes to fling around are “life” and …

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Unbelievable

Tracy 3/28/2005
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The Michigan House of Representatives just passed a bill saying that doctors and other health care providers can opt out of treating a person because of moral, ethical, or religious objections. WHAT? Since when do health care providers get to …

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Scientific American weighs in on evolution vs. creationism

Tracy 3/26/2005
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Daily Kos has a very funny diary quoting from Scientific American about evolution.

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100,000 Iraqis Dead

Tracy 3/23/2005
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In the middle of the comments on another thread, someone asked about where we had heard that we are responsible for the deaths of 100,000 people in Iraq. Even though it’s old news, I think it’s worth repeating, especially since …

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