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Doc Gurley Pop Quiz!* “Dare not speak its name” refers to (choose one): 1) Traditional Jewish law about the four-letter name for God 2) George Carlin’s send-up of TV censorship [WARNING: definitely R-rated video] 3) The CIA’s role in Guantanamo Bay interrogations 4) Homosexuality – Lord Alfred Douglas’ description of his relationship with Oscar Wilde […] 1) Assess: Labor Day is a great annual reminder of the value of work, and also a chance to evaluate the impact your work is having on your health. If you’re the classic office-drone, here are some things to evaluate and adjust, before they can cause some miserable health problems – is your space ergonomic? […] I was a third year med student before I found out what pimping was. No. Not that kind, the medical kind. See, the insider slang in medicine for a certain type of aggressive questioning is…well, pimping. Doc Gurley Med Slang Dictionary: pimping; (def.) verb, as in to pimp; was pimped; got pimped; will be pimped. […] Yeowza! Who knew that structural cells within your body are going on field trips? Raise your hands. No one? Well, neither did I. Last year we awarded a Doc Gurley Most Explosive Medical News of 2007 prize to a body (har) of work which shows that any woman who has ever been pregnant has male […] Back-to-school is a distinctive memory for all of us over the age of 7. There are few things more evocative than the smell of a pristine box of new crayons. All those sharp little points, begging you to take a chance, to pick a color and be creative. When you’re in school, there’s so much […] Yeah! A BOGUS Award winner here at Doc Gurley – this time for a Gold-Medal-Worthy triple jump of BOGUS assumptions. How big are these leaps? Let’s just say these could, in comparison, make the powerful Olympian from Cameroon look like she’s merely doing the bunny hop. Follow along, as we track a minor, small-study-result to […] |
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