Month: August 2021
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Human Interest
TRY TO OUT-COLLECT THIS GUY!
We’ve all known people whose hobby it was to collect things—baseball cards, stamps, coins, rare books, and on and on.…
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Human Interest
MANNERS: WHAT’S HAPPENED TO THEM?
The dictionary defines manners as “social comportment, ways of behaving with reference to polite standards.” Basically, manners refer to the…
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Aging
IS THERE A TEST TO TELL IF GRANDMA IS GETTING ALZHEIMER’S?
“35 million people worldwide were estimated to be living with dementia.” That’s a huge number, but it doesn’t include the…
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COVID-19
FDA AUTHORIZES ADDITIONAL COVID-19 VACCINE DOSE, CDC/HHS RECOMMEND 3RD BOOSTER SHOT
The Food and Drug Administration has given emergency use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to allow for…
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Human Interest
THE ROBERT TRENT JONES TRAIL
I haven’t blogged about golf for awhile, so I think this is a good time to write about the The…
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COVID-19
VACCINE HESITANCY: WHY PEOPLE REFUSE COVID-19 VACCINE
I’m old enough to remember what life was like before vaccines. As a child I had measles, mumps, and chicken…
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Human Interest
REMEMBERING WHY WE MOVED AWAY!
When you move away from the place you lived for seventy-two years, you often second-guess your decision. Doubt, regret, and…
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Heart Disease
DRUG OPTIONS FOR TREATING CHOLESTEROL AND REDUCING CARDIOVASCULAR RISK
A subject I’ve blogged about several times is cholesterol. The biochemistry of cholesterol, it’s clinical significance, and guidelines for treatment…
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Physician Office Issues
THE CONCIERGE PRACTICE MODEL
ADDENDUM: A recent editorial in Medical Economics gave new perspective to the concierge practice model. Specialdocs, a company that transforms…
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