Even more Salmonella issues

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Once again (this now happens every couple of months) the FDA is forcing a recall of food products (notice that they are called food products, not food) tainted with salmonella. This time it is hydrolyzed vegetable protein manufactured by Basic Food Flavors (that’s some flavoring they are adding…)

The ‘food product’ […]

Twitter Updates for 2010-03-09

Feeling the difference today between practicing Haiti-medicine vs. US homeless medicine. An impressively larger gap than you might think… # Giving a talk on issues regarding underage drinking at a local high school. Great topic. #

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-26

Haiti: at Stanford for Relief 2.0 conference. Great info on moving into more coordinated care- esp for vulnerable groups. # Want to follow Haiti Relief 2.0 conference at Stanford re: health and use of social media? Hashtag: #KLF2HAITI #

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-21

Having a Haiti moment at JFK: there is apparently debris all over our runway (source?). We have to go around, on a bus, dragging our bags. #

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-20

live chat NOW! where we report LIVE from Haiti on our medical disaster relief trip – http://tinyurl.com/y8qr92g #

Haiti Traveling

How quickly we humans normalize even the most extreme scenario – as long as we see it over and over. By now, it seems perfectly normal for our fringed-draped bus to 4-wheel it over piles of rubble. We automatically get out and walk up the steep dirt-road hills of this large urban city while she […]