sacredhands on Aug 31st, 2007Vaginal Rejuvenation For Cosmetic Reasons Maybe Not So Tight
Go ahead. Stand in an open field and scream at the top of your lungs. Think anyone cares? Probably not, as long as you live out in the country. Move to the city, though, and plenty of people will tell you to shut up. What makes sense in the country doesn’t always make sense in [...]
sacredhands on Apr 25th, 2007Robert Ebert Reviews His Salivary Gland Cancer
Let’s face it: after fifty, it’s all a crap shoot in terms of health and longevity. The body seems to have a trajectory that becomes more clear with each passing year. Little clues are revealed here and there, but the big picture doesn’t reveal itself until that tragic moment when suddenly the doctor tells you, [...]
sacredhands on Mar 28th, 2007Dr. Atul Gawande Notes for a Better Life
Read an excerpt from Better, A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
You might want to memorize this doctor’s face. It belongs to Dr. Atul Gawande, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard. He’s the surgeon who came up with the idea of bar coding surgical tools so they don’t get left behind [...]