memories for Oct 29

2015

2015 Oct 29
Auvi-Q Recall

I never prescribed Auvi-Q because I don't think they were ever covered by Medi-Cal managed care plans, but I thought they were kind of cool. They're kind of like Siri talking you through a scene from "Pulp Fiction".

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2015 Oct 29
Molecular Version of the Myth of Sisyphus

Christopher S. posted this animated GIF on Facebook and I knew I'd seen it somewhere before….

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2015 Oct 29
Apparently Approaching the Stationary Phase of Moore's Law

Without some new breakthrough in physics, it seems unlikely that the original formulation of Moore's Law will continue to hold. This is certainly not the first gloomy forecast.

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2015 Oct 29
TB test

So it's kind of embarrassing that the first time I ever heard of the LAM-ELISA test was because of the unsolved murder of Elisa Lam.

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2015 Oct 29
Zombies and Othering

Imagining a grim meathook dystopian science fiction story where some terrible virus causes people to shuffle along like zombies and not be able to talk and generally be out of it, but they aren't actually undead, they're just sick.

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2015 Oct 29
Heart Attacks are Still a More Likely Cause of Death than Cancer

Realistically, if you eat a ton of bacon, sausage, or Spam or eat an entire porterhouse steak every night, you're probably not going to die of cancer. Coronary artery disease is probably going to get to you first. (crossposted on Facebook)

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2015 Oct 29
Everything Causes Cancer

Crazy headlines like these might make you want to throw up your hands and just start smoking cigarettes and inhaling asbestos…

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2007

2007 Oct 29
flashback: the unit

Love is watching someone die.

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2006

2006 Oct 29
feeling abandoned

I have spent the last 80 hours or so without speaking to another soul. (I am not counting buying stuff at the store, or communicating via computer.) I can’t help but wonder if anyone would miss me if I disappeared.

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2003

2003 Oct 29
recursion

Again, I am perhaps entering a situation that seems remarkably familiar. (Sisyphus' stone rolling down again.)

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2002

2002 Oct 29
On Digital Rectal Exams

digital root word digit, from Middle English, from Latin digitus finger, toe. (Courtesy of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.) We don’t stick computer probes up there, just fingers.

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