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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Expensive Sterile Saline, or Tapwater? It’s a Wash!

January 30, 2008 – 8:31 pm

If you grew up in the rural South like Doc Gurley, your childhood memories include such everyday events as peeling all the epithelium off both knees and elbows, stubbing the entire top off both big toes, and then sliding into so much dirt with said injuries that the injured skin looked like a new, high-tech [...]

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Tick Tock–Is That Your Toenail I’m Hearing?

January 28, 2008 – 7:51 pm

Ever feel like even your skin is exhausted? Like your feet are seeping tiredness into the floor? Well, there may be some truth to your sensations. BBC health news today reports on a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) article where researchers discovered that each cell of your body has its own internal [...]

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Handwashing–Again!

January 25, 2008 – 1:32 pm

You’d almost think this article was a follow-up to a Doc Gurley post titled 10 Creative Ways To Get Your Doctor To Wash His Hands. Read the article if you want a review of the issue of doctors and handwashing (or lack thereof). Read the Doc Gurley November 16 post if you want a quirky [...]

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Was Heath Ledger Snoring? Or Was It Something Worse?

January 25, 2008 – 10:56 am

There’s only one way to feel about the sudden death of Heath Ledger–what a tragic loss of youth, life, and talent. While we may never know what actually happened, the story about his death raises some important opportunities to learn, and, hopefully, prevent future deaths like this. First point: the medicines that were found in [...]

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How To Break Bad News

January 19, 2008 – 8:29 pm

Dr. Judah Folkman died this week in Boston. News organizations used the occasion to report on his decades-long cancer research career. Given his status as a distant, non-celebrity, non-Nobel surgeon, you may be asking yourself why you, personally, should care about his death. Here’s why.
We were in our second year of medical school, feeling the [...]

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Welcome to Grand Rounds

January 17, 2008 – 1:52 pm

The Doc Gurley post on using a mood-altering computer game is included in this week’s grand rounds of medical blogs. This week’s host, Alvaro Fernandez, of www.sharpbrains.com did an awe-inspiring job of reviewing 40 sites. He lists each with a fun, catchy one-sentence summary. Talk about setting the bar high! If you’re looking for [...]

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Yeowza! Important Bad News!

January 14, 2008 – 11:02 pm

Typically, health news is a litany of faux fears. You know what I mean, alarmist stuff that makes it seem like an act of insurance-revoking foolhardiness merely to leave the house without a respirator, a bottle of thermonuclear disinfectant, and a NASA-approved re-entry pod. In a surprising twist, here is a truly alarming bit of [...]

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Okay, I’m Obsessed

January 13, 2008 – 2:47 pm

For all you loyal Doc Gurley website visitors (yes, all two of you), you may be thinking this is another article about Dave Barry. But nooo. Just to prove how fickle my fantasy stalker-affections are, I’m outing myself right here, right now, on international Internet, as being obsessed yet again–only this time with a face. [...]

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Wow Dude, That’s Some Excellent S#*t…

January 13, 2008 – 1:47 pm

We here at Doc Gurley know what question keeps you up at night, fretting and pondering–can you, with minimal effort, and no side effects, have a better stool? Can you, by doing so, even avoid disease? Well, boys and girls, the answer in the health news this week is a resounding no s#*t. You [...]

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Still Fondling the New Year’s Resolutions?

January 10, 2008 – 10:58 am

If so, check out the audio version of the Doc Gurley New Year’s Resolution article. You can go to your own, personal, leather-seated, ladder-racked, mahogany-paneled library of Doc Gurley podcasts on U.K.’s Global Local Radio just by clicking http://www.canstream.co.uk/copperbeech/index.php?cat=DocGurley. Bookmark the site, let your family and friends know where it is (in case you get [...]

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