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68The Book Turned Into Movies Genre
Watching 'Angels & Demons' the other day got me to thinking about the books that I have read that have become movies. It is a commonly held belief by readers that movies are notoriously worse than the the...
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76How To Visit A Doctor
1--I am not a doctor. No comment within should be taken as doctor's advice or substitution for medical treatment. 2--This article is intended as a tutorial on how to utilize a doctors visit. It does not include all the information regarding a...
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76Serpent Worm
Introduction Dracunculus medinensis is classified as belonging to the class Secernetea, subclass Spiruria, order Spirurida, superfamily Dracuncluoidea, family Dracunculidae, and genus and species Drancunculus medinensis. It is commonly called...
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70The American Epidemic
Image collected from Google images. Introduction In 2004 U.S. Surgeon General, Richard H. Carmona, stated the present generation will be the first not to outlive the previous generation, and the first to have...
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75Falling Through The Cracks: A Lesson In Healthcare From Being A Patient
I spent December 30, 2010 in the ER. My only other trip to the ER before then happened the previous July when I had my first gall stone attack. Despite my confirmed diagnosis, this time was different, very different. Even though I have worked in...
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58Semantics in Relationships
Perhaps we can call this a rant rather than an article. But it has been on my mind a long time and writing has long been a vent for frustrations. It starts with my rather patchy social...
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58Adventures in EMS: Close to Home
I have always had a certain kind of contempt for drunk drivers. To me it was a high ranking crime. Partly because of the act itself being so deplorable, but also because, in my job, I see the gory...
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74Adventures In EMS
People in EMS are crazy. It is a pre-requisite of the job. If you are not crazy going in, you will either be turned or foisted out by your own sanity. We are among the crudest of folks as well as some of...
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67Adventures in EMS: Slowly Dying
There are many tragedies to encounter in EMS. This weekend alone two terrible events took place in the districts I work in; my friends and family were EMT’s for them. In one, a young man crashed his...
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58This Family Thing
I should have known as soon as I heard about my friends' marriage. Undoubtedly it began before that, but it was my first concrete evidence. Every wedding of every friend before, I had privately greeted...
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