Classmate Cheri Blauwet
won the Boston Marathon
a couple weeks ago
. She’s now won the Boston, LA, and New York marathons, and she’ll be heading to Greece this summer for the paralympics. In her free time she memorizes
pathology, physiology, and pharmacology like the rest of us, runs an international disability organization, and somehow has time for her way-cool boyfriend Dan. I
usually consider myself a fairly driven fellow, but she simply blows me out of the water. Congrats again, Cheri.
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I guess I’ll have to start including
mountain lion
maulings
in my differential diagnosis now. Yikes.
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Big geeky day. Got a
Gmail
account (
Enoch beat me
) and looks like my historical anatomy links made it onto
Metafilter
.
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I recently came across an astounding collection of historical anatomy illustrations at the NIH’s
Dream Anatomy Gallery
.
Historical Anatomies on the Web
is another great exhibition with anatomical drawings from 300+ years ago. The NIH’s latest
exhibition
,
Changing the Face of Medicine
is not only full of great content on women in medicine, but is also a great, clean site design. I love it.
Man, big government like the NIH never can do anything right, can it?
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Just as
President Bush is about to announce his plan to send men to Mars (and the moon)
, our Immunology professor made a great point today–
the Earth’s atmsophere protects us from a great deal of ionizing radiation
, but once you’re in space, your body is barraged with cosmic radiation with almost no protection. If there’s ever any plan to make a space base or Mars
travel (
which could take more than 8 months on the low end
), we’ll need to find a way to shield people from the radiation exposure.
Which got me thinking–do you think astronauts do sperm or egg freezing before they leave? Probably, right? Not just because of the radiation, but in case
anything were to happen to them. Couldn’t find anything related at the NASA site.
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Happy holidays
to everyone–fellow medbloggers and other readers. It’s been a fun and exciting couple of months, and I’ve enjoyed the comments, rants, and debates
online. Through this blog I’ve had the opportunity to correspond with other medical students across the country and world, read about the latest medical and
health policy news, and make some new friends. Here’s to a safe, happy, and healthy 2004.
Just finished redoing my
photos
site; cleaned it up and simplified the code.
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Dear British visitors: What’s with all the “fetus in fetu” searches for the past day? I’ve gotten
over 100 in the last 24 hours
, pretty much all from the UK or Europe. Can anyone tell me what’s up? Is this in the tabloids or something? I didn’t find anything new or breaking news
at
Google
…
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There’s plenty of data and quantitative analysis about health insurance, but here’s a little qualitative from the NYT:
For Middle Class, Health Insurance Becomes a Luxury
. Something’s gotta break soon, now that the middle class are being affected, of course.
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I was gonna post something to this effect, but never got around to it, so I guess I’ll just let the NYT do it:
A New Way to Unclog the Arteries
.
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