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Chatterlines: April 2009

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Views and news that won't fit in print. Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Swine flu: Will this little piggy go to market? My son David posted a status update on Facebook shortly after 9 last evening: “AHHH, SWINE FLU AT UD! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! News crews were staked out in a van beside his dorm at the University of Delaware. 8221; the headline read. No It was more like, “Here we go again.”. About a year ago, David was diagnosed with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma. Except for the cancer, he stayed well. David re...

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Chatterlines: May 2009

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Views and news that won't fit in print. Friday, May 22, 2009. Gene and I have been in France the last 10 days - first in Paris, with a day trip to Rouen, and then in St-Jeannet, a tiny village in the foothills of the Alps, north of Nice. The trip was absolument superbe, incroyable, magnifique, formidable. And every other French superlative you can think of. Everywhere we went, I kept saying, “This will make a great blog! A toute à l'heure, mes amis! Sunday, May 17, 2009. Reston, where Lorin and I live, i...

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Chatterlines: Show your support?

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Views and news that won't fit in print. Sunday, January 10, 2010. Ah-hem. If you were on Facebook this past Friday, you probably saw some “colorful” conversations. Here’s a synopsis, in brief:. 8220;Purple.”. 8220;Green.”. 8220;Black, of course! 8220;Maroon with a pretty pink design.”. 8220;Tan.”. 8220;Beige.”. 8220;Magenta.”. Turns out women of every stripe and hue were posting the color of the bra they were wearing at that moment. A bit of online exhibitionism? Donations to the foundation were up, too.

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Chatterlines: The ‘practice’ of medicine

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Views and news that won't fit in print. Tuesday, January 19, 2010. The ‘practice’ of medicine. I like trusting the medical community. I like trusting that four years in med school, three or more years as an intern and resident working 24-hour shifts, several years as a fellow engaged in a specialty, and day-to-day experience with all kinds of patients make doctors knowledgeable, skillful and fully capable of curing disease. My science-medical writing course at Hopkins, Medicine in Action. What did he or ...

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Chatterlines: January 2010

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Views and news that won't fit in print. Saturday, January 23, 2010. Almost everyone who receives a cancer diagnosis - or has a loved one who’s been diagnosed - sooner or later goes online to learn about the disease. Quite often, we scare the pants off ourselves. Speaking for myself, I’m not always looking for information. I’m often looking for reassurance. And that can be hard to find. It can be tough to tease out hopeful trends from scary statistics. Unfortunately, I can’t. I’ve googled ...A top biostat...

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Chatterlines: June 2009

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Views and news that won't fit in print. Monday, June 29, 2009. To be or not to be: A Francophile in Paris. Everyone who learns that Gene and I went to Paris last month asks the same questions: “Where did you go? 8221; and “What did you see? Did we scale the Eiffel Tower, spend days in the Louvre, stroll through the Jardin du Luxembourg and the Jardin des Tuileries, or seek out le cancan at the Moulin Rouge? Did we take the nighttime Illuminations Tour or cruise down on the moonlit Seine? Aka Boul’M...

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Chatterlines: Confounding statistics

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Views and news that won't fit in print. Saturday, January 23, 2010. Almost everyone who receives a cancer diagnosis - or has a loved one who’s been diagnosed - sooner or later goes online to learn about the disease. Quite often, we scare the pants off ourselves. Speaking for myself, I’m not always looking for information. I’m often looking for reassurance. And that can be hard to find. It can be tough to tease out hopeful trends from scary statistics. Unfortunately, I can’t. I’ve googled ...A top biostat...

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Chatterlines: Break's over

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Views and news that won't fit in print. Friday, January 15, 2010. But now I have a handle on my job, David is back at college and my parents are settling into their new place. Another tidal wave of change and upheaval has washed through - for the moment. I can get back to the business of writing. If you’ve read earlier posts, you know that I’ve wrestled with a way to orient Chatterlines. Should it simply be an online journal, with reflections on the quirky things that happen every day? I invite you to jo...