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	<title>Doc Gurley&#187; Doc Gurley &#8211; 9 Ways Docs (including this one!) Stay Healthy While Traveling</title>
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		<title>9 Ways Docs (including this one!) Stay Healthy While Traveling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the Doc Gurley SFGate article on this topic, bursting with tips on how you and your loved ones can stay




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healthy this holiday season. H1N1, food-borne illnesses, falling behind on your exercise, deep-vein thromboses, &#8220;staycation&#8221; issues &#8211; it&#8217;s ALL covered in this comprehensive round-up of practical health advice. Feel free to forward [...]


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		<title>Booby Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feeling annoyed, angry, confused, nay, veritably pissed off about how your breasts have become a punching bag for various groups? Are you wondering exactly what&#8217;s behind the battle of the sumo-sized egos when it comes to the new United States Preventative Services Task Force recommendations




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to NOT screen women in their forties with mammograms? [...]


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		<title>Doc Gurley Interview &#8211; Good Medicine, Bad Drugs&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the Doc Gurley interview over at D. P. Lyle&#8217;s website. For those who don&#8217;t (yet) know, here&#8217;s D. P. Lyle: 
D. P. Lyle, MD is the Macavity Award winning and Edgar Award nominated author of the non-fiction books, Murder and Mayhem, Forensics For Dummies, Forensics and Fiction, and Howdunnit: Forensics: A Guide For [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.docgurley.com/2009/12/24/what-is-frankincense-and-myrrh-prescription-drugs/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: What ARE frankincense and myrrh? Prescription drugs?'>What ARE frankincense and myrrh? Prescription drugs?</a> <small> Image via Wikipedia Check out the Doc Gurley article...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.docgurley.com/2010/01/15/obesity-antibiotics-should-your-weight-determine-the-drugs-you-get/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Obesity Antibiotics: Should your weight determine the drugs you get?'>Obesity Antibiotics: Should your weight determine the drugs you get?</a> <small> Image via Wikipedia Doctors have called for a new...</small></li>
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		<title>Hospitals and Debt Collectors &#8211; Two Extremes</title>
		<link>http://www.docgurley.com/2009/08/18/hospitals-and-debt-collectors-two-extremes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doc Gurley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two articles (in a series of three articles) by Doc Gurley over at SFGate have now appeared. They are an expose into the world of hospitals and debt collection policies. Medical debt collection is a nasty underbelly of hospital practices in the U.S. &#8211; and, for those without government-sponsored healthcare (such as Medicare and Medicaid) [...]


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		<title>Kidneys for sale in New Jersey</title>
		<link>http://www.docgurley.com/2009/07/24/kidneys-for-sale-in-new-jersey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the news coverage of the massive corruption arrests in New Jersey, there was a little medical shocker &#8211; &#8220;Another man in Brooklyn, Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, was accused of enticing vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000 and then selling the organ for $160,000. Mr. Dwek pretended to be soliciting a kidney on behalf [...]


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		<title>Embrace Your Placebo Effect?</title>
		<link>http://www.docgurley.com/2009/07/09/embrace-your-placebo-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a great article in Psychology Today about why and how placebos work, including some amazing facts, such as the fact that there is a &#8220;placebo heirarchy&#8221;:
* Placebo surgery works better than placebo injections
* Placebo injections work better than placebo pills
* Sham acupuncture treatment works better than a placebo pill
* Capsules work better than tablets
* [...]


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		<title>Farrah and Michael</title>
		<link>http://www.docgurley.com/2009/06/27/farrah-and-michael/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a big week for celebrity sorrow. As you&#8217;re contemplating the loss of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, be sure to head over to SFGate to check out the Doc Gurley health tips we can all learn from celebrity health coverage.
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		<title>Insider Secret &#8211; Why It&#8217;s So Hard To Get A Doctor&#8217;s Appointment</title>
		<link>http://www.docgurley.com/2009/06/15/insider-secret-why-its-so-hard-to-get-a-doctors-appointment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Even then, most of us look around the packed waiting rooms, seething during our [...]


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		<title>How To Ask A Doctor Out</title>
		<link>http://www.docgurley.com/2009/05/11/how-to-ask-a-doctor-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 12:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Do YOU Have A Necklace of Sizzling Brown Fat?</title>
		<link>http://www.docgurley.com/2009/04/24/do-you-have-a-necklace-of-sizzling-brown-fat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoa! Weird and wonderful medical news this week! The New England Journal of Medicine published three




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simultaneous reports proving the existence of a veritable Loch Ness monster of physiology &#8211; the identification, at long last, of &#8220;brown fat&#8221; in adults.  Say what?  See, the conventional wisdom for many many years [...]


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