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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Lost Tampon: The Music Video

September 26, 2008 – 2:40 pm

One of the most popular Doc Gurley posts is New Episode of Lost: The Tampon. Coming soon will be the World Premiere of our first Doc Gurley video – and you can now check out the amazing Krause music soundtrack on YouTube! Then head over to www.thisiskrause.com and get an earful of fun.

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Wet Nurse Rising

September 25, 2008 – 10:32 am

Here’s an interesting and provocative article about the impact of the contaminated infant formula scandal in China. There is a resurgence of demand for wet nurses – who are impressively paid, according to the numbers in this article (well, that is in comparison to the usual pay in China). One of the reasons the article [...]

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Gluten: How Much Is Too Much?

September 24, 2008 – 11:02 am

If you have a gluten-related disease, know someone with gluten sensitivity or just wonder about how someone could ever give up croissants for life, you might be interested in a nice article in MedScape that asks the question, how much gluten is too much? gluten is present in tons of food – everything made of [...]

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Taming The Retch

September 22, 2008 – 5:01 am

For the last week, we here at Doc Gurley headquarters have been experiencing a 24/7, one-after-the-other, family-wide puke-o-rama. If you didn’t know better, you’d think we were joyfully re-enacting a cruise-ship Norwalk virus outbreak – perhaps for a rapt CDC audience. You know what it’s like – one day, you’re busy with your many tasks. [...]

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Meet The FTC, Your New Drug Watchdog.

September 18, 2008 – 9:26 pm

The FTC recently stepped in and – after lengthy (and more than fair) warnings – charged five companies with ‘making false and misleading claims for cancer cures’ and they are set to go in front of judges in court. Several other companies settled for fairly trivial financial amounts and before even that over a hundred [...]

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Nurse Ratchet Grand Rounds!

September 16, 2008 – 5:19 am

Wahoo! Check out this week’s Grand Rounds at Nurse Ratchet’s new site. Great graphics, fun info, priceless insights – what more could you want?  While you’re there, poke around and read one of Doc Gurley’s favorite Nurse Ratchet posts – the pulp fiction edition. Somehow I can’t place myself in any of these graphic covers [...]

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A Silver Lining In The Silver Lining…

September 11, 2008 – 10:04 am

Here’s a nice data-review in the Harvard Health News about the role of optimism and health. This article is a good summary of several large studies on whether having a better outlook on life can help your health. It is a long article (four online dense pages), so here, for all you Doc Gurley readers, [...]

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College Care

September 10, 2008 – 5:56 am

First-time college-goers are experiencing huge life changes this time of year. With a heads up from the New York Times health news, I found that PsychCentral has developed a nice, detailed list of articles for the college-bound about ways to make the transition work – very practical advice on topics, including the (yikes) difficult roommate. [...]

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An Apple A Day…

September 9, 2008 – 5:01 am

Looking to expand your productivity and your mind? Head over to AppleQuack for this week’s Grand Rounds – and then check out some of the site’s handy reviews and tips on how to Mac-out your approach to working in healthcare. A great way to combine tips and snips (of posts). Enjoy!

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From The Malebag: Man Up, Dude!

September 8, 2008 – 5:28 am

Reader Response: The recent Doc Gurley post, Asking: Or Is It Pimping? provoked interesting and very insightful comments from our readers – and also revealed a profound difference of opinion. One school-of-thought reader put it most succinctly by stating: “Sounds like whinning (sic) to me, Gurley…Man up, dude.”
Doc Gurley Perspective: I, for one, love to [...]

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