Archive for October, 2007
Banking Baby’s Blood
You may recall my article from a few weeks ago entitled, “Living in the 3rd Dimension,” when I wrote about my sister-in-law and the 3D Ultrasound she was planning for her baby. I wrote about her experience (which was, technologically speaking, not without problems but resulted in some great pictures of my future nephew [...]
Women: Think before you Drink
Alcohol has become a very confusing substance in recent memory. When I was growing up, it was something that only the adults drank, but it was something that could be very bad for me so I wasn’t encouraged to start. It was a substance associated with terrible addiction, yet served as a rite [...]
A Gain of No Pain
I remember in a recent episode called “Insensitivity” of the TV show House, MD, a woman named Hannah is taken into the hospital after she and her mother are in a car accident. As with most of these episodes, there are several symptoms which the patients exhibit that prove to be medically mysterious, but [...]
No Room for Error
In spite of what my wife thinks when she looks over at my desk, I’m a pretty organized person. I work within the realm of what I call “organized chaos,” in which there aren’t necessarily “piles” of paper on my desk but really one big “pile” in which everything resides. Contrary to logic, [...]
