It is with a heavy and broken heart (yes, both—imagine a massive boulder, pounded into bits of sand, then put in very large plastic bags and doused with water, rendering the bag so heavy that if you try to lift one, the plastic just stretches and tears—that heavy), that I am forced to concede, nay, [...]

There are momentous turning points in every human life. The day you meet your one true love. The day you see the miracle of new life brought into the world as a physical manifestation of your love (or, conversely, if you’re a woman, the day you push a human out an orifice). For Doc Gurley, [...]

That’s right, hands where we can see them. Nice and slow. Step away from the idea.
Whether it’s our habits, our health, or our relationships, we all want to heal something. What could be more tempting than a day where the world, all together, says “ready, steady, go!” and we charge en masse to our better, [...]

Here’s a Doc Gurley podcast on new flu facts, on Global Local Radio–for the listeners in the audience.
Cheers,
Doc in Your Ear

As we head into the last days of the holiday season, some people are feeling just a wee bit overloaded. Here’s a Doc Gurley questionnaire to help you decide if you too might be fraying at the edges:
Check which of these situations applies to you:
1) When another pedestrian wanders into the crosswalk just as the [...]

 

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A lot of spin is devoted to making global warming feel immediate. The earth has a fever is one of my favorite sayings, maybe because I’m a doctor. But I have to say, the fever analogy still just doesn’t work for me. Maybe it’s because, in some small part of my mind, I’m aware that [...]

This week’s New York Times has a good article with new facts about the flu. Seems that there have been very few experiments looking at flu transmission because there weren’t any good (read: cheap, and non-biting) animal models for flu spread. Even if you could infect them with flu, most animals then didn’t transmit flu [...]

We launch the first Doc Gurley audiocast with a Homeless Gift Guide broadcast on UK’s Global Local Radio at http://www.canstream.co.uk/copperbeech/index.php?id=78
In this broadcast, we go on a fieldtrip and gift a homeless person “live”–just to show how safe and easy the whole process can be. Listen for yourself and see how much joy you can [...]

This week’s Sunday San Francisco Chronicle includes an article by Doc Gurley about how to give a gift to a homeless person. Heavily edited due to space constraints (despite the impressive amount of space they gave me–when I get inspired, I go for it, but there’s only so much space on a Sunday paper page…), [...]

Alien Invasion of Humans Proven by Scientist
Sigourney Weaver was right
Buried in what Dave Barry calls the “mainstream media,” was an article with this happy-face headline: “Babies protect mothers against breast cancer.” What could be more warm and fuzzy than that?
However, if you, like me, clicked on this article, what you found was something shocking. [...]

No country in the world has done a more thorough job of circumcising it’s newborn boys than the United States. In many places, if you don’t put a Do Not Cross Crime Scene tape across your new son’s genitals, he’ll get whisked off and trimmed before you know it. And yet, here we are with [...]