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Okay, so I was officially an Olympic-level grump for yesterday’s National Grouch Day. Our clinic lost a superb human being – and a wonderful clinician – to a sudden, untreatable paroxysm of (brace yourself for this one) retirement. Excuse me? How selfish is that? Doesn’t he know there are more important issues at stake here […] In a BBC news report on a preliminary research discovery that testicles may become a source for stem cells, Professor Robin Lovell-Badge (how British is that name?) is quoted as saying that further work needs to be done; therefore the issue “will have to be left dangling a little longer.” Could you turn your head […] For a lovely bit of fiction that rings as true as crystal, head over to the Atlantic magazine. A short story by Julie Shumaker, titled Patient, Female explores the world of professional patients, the doctors in training who depend on them (and can intentionally or unintentionally offend them) and the tangled family ties that medicine/healthcare […] Here’s a nice data-review in the Harvard Health News about the role of optimism and health. This article is a good summary of several large studies on whether having a better outlook on life can help your health. It is a long article (four online dense pages), so here, for all you Doc Gurley readers, […] Reader Response: The recent Doc Gurley post, Asking: Or Is It Pimping? provoked interesting and very insightful comments from our readers – and also revealed a profound difference of opinion. One school-of-thought reader put it most succinctly by stating: “Sounds like whinning (sic) to me, Gurley…Man up, dude.” Doc Gurley Perspective: I, for one, love […] 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. […] |
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