Archive for the ‘ This Life in Progress ’ Category
This is a story that says that anything is possible and fun, in love, for a short time, probably until everyone finds their senses. Not that complicated, really. Entertainment value is good to high thanks to very good performances from Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. Steve Martin is good too. A divorced couple finds new [ READ MORE ]
Meet CJ a young black dope-dealing male who was diagnosed with Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis in his mid-twenties. After a few years of extreme non-compliance with his medications and follow-up he lands on dialysis at this early age. By now he has started to sample his own merchandise and is addicted to cocaine, and opiates. His [ READ MORE ]
I do not blog well on the road. But I do take photos[ READ MORE ]
Tonight was one of those nights that I would probably have talked about many moons later and wished I had recorded it in some way. I would have consoled myself that my memory was good enough anyway. I would then have been satisfied that the lack of my own journalling was of no consequence and [ READ MORE ]
This piece from The Economist shocked me about what is going on in French workplaces. Nowadays I have a better idea of what I mean when I say Work-Life balance. But I still have problems with my compass. My internal mechanisms that should help point me toward the place of balance do not work as [ READ MORE ]
As a scientist, most of what I do is driven by data. This extends even to my personal life. I make decisions based mostly on what is indicated by the existing information. So when I reviewed my dashboard and saw that the most popular page of the few I have written is the “Most Irritating [ READ MORE ]
During the course of medical training every doctor-to-be is schooled in the avoidance of conflict with patients. We are told to suspend moral judgements on patients` lifestyles, politics, religion and so on and hone in only on the human being that needs our help. For this reason one (as a patient) might find it difficult [ READ MORE ]
Thanks to a covered garage and the summer heat, I no longer have any use for my microwave![ READ MORE ]
As a boy I wish I could see through people. Something like x-ray vision, but not as boring in black and white. I wished I could see the state of the inner organs, from which I could draw a sense of the workings of the brain, the thoughts of a person. This would be the [ READ MORE ]
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