2008 Resolution No. 3: Uphold Magnanimity
Category: Psychobabble
I will not lose my temper when the restaurant hostess miscalculates my wait for a table by a factor of seven.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 6:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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"Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours." -Sir William Osler
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December 27, 2007
2008 Resolution No. 2: Quit Prostituting My Taste Buds
Category: Psychobabble
I will not drink sugary sodas, no matter how many advertisements I see suggesting that I am a geek and a loser for avoiding them.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 6:04 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 26, 2007
2008 Resolution No. 1: Raise My Prices
Category: Psychobabble
I will not sell my self-composure to obnoxious drivers in exchange for a moment of Up-Yours-Charlie pissy rage.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 2:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 24, 2007
A Christmas Blessing
Category: Lyrical
Whether you live in good health or poor, may you travel well on your journey, and may your eyes face the horizon with courage.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 10:58 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 21, 2007
Your Doctor Just Might Be a Moron
Category: Humor
Go ahead and give me the list and I'll confess as to whether or not I fell for these myths; if fact, how do I know that I'm not in the right? Aren't doctors known for their stubbornness?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 11:04 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 20, 2007
More Bad News for the Uninsured
Category: Patient Advocacy
...as these secrets are transformed into promising medicines, the irony of the uninsured patient hangs in the air like the stench from a rotting carcass.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:07 AM • 3 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
December 19, 2007
"Is There a Ring of Debris Around Uranus?"
Category: Commentary
The art of writing a headline is tricky, as anyone who has read a newspaper knows, and we don't mean to disparage your natural abilities, but would you consider rewriting these examples, too?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:34 PM • • 3 TrackBacks
December 18, 2007
Cancer Death Rates Drop Again
Category: Commentary
to those who think, think, think about how to exploit the Byzantine inner workings of the cancer cell to bring it grievous physiological harm...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:17 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 16, 2007
Are You Smarter Than a Medical Student? Part II
Category: Humor
The playground ditty "Ring Around the Rosies" is thought to have referred to what epidemic?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 5:39 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 14, 2007
Are You Smarter Than A Medical Student?
Category: Humor
What better way to promote our citizen's intelligence than to give everybody an "A," right?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 10:38 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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