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I don’t like Mark Driscoll.

I like Rob Bell including his new book. (not that new any more.)

Although I don’t think either of them are heretics or the end all of preachers.

I don’t really love Campus Crusade in fact it makes me cringe.

I don’t like George Bush all that much.
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So its here the first global health application….

and I panicked.  I am also ill with some RSV like illness.

Suddenly in the last week, I have looked around realized I have it made.

I have a brilliant mentor who has actually succeeded in founding a clinic in one of the most ( Read more... )

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The other day we were doing what residents do best. Fantasize about having a better schedule.  Our colleague BOB seemed to have won the jackpot, he had the last two weeks of Dec off and then an extra five days including News Years for a family wedding.

JANE, another ( Read more... )

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My intern on nights with me this past week was a south spoken Syrian.  He spent two years working to get a visa to come and study pediatrics here. He wants to be a pediatric cardiologist. He will be one of the only in the entire nation and even surrounding nations when he ( Read more... )

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Three years ago when I was in the mist of my third year of medical school. I went through a 2 month period where I rarely slept more than a few hours at a time. It wasn’t the call schedule, it wasn’t the stress of residency applications or Step 2, it wasnt even entirely the ( Read more... )

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I gave my annual lecture at Wake Forest last week. It was a beautiful tapestry of beginnings and endings of my life.

Becoming a disabled physician is one of the greatest things I have done in my life but it also was among the most painful.  Being told that you have no right ( Read more... )

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The sermon on Sunday was on good friends.

The kind of friends who you can show up dripping wet on their door step after the worst day and they will let you in, let you cry a bit, tell you to clear off the laundry from the sofa and rest or hand you a crying baby and to get ( Read more... )

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I have been in 7-8/10 right hip pain post-call for about a month and half.

Yesterday was Grand Rounds and I was post call. It was on chronic pain in connective tissue disorders….NO REALLY it was.  I slumped in the back, ate my oatmeal and hoped that sleep would overtake me ( Read more... )

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One of the things about growing up with a progressive although manageable illness is it teaches you gratitude for the little things that make life truly beautiful.

Baking something yummy.

North Carolina Wine
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My mentor gave Grand Rounds on Global Health yesterday.  I was post-call and in pain but I stayed the extra hour, set in the middle of the intimidating auditorium. I found myself nodding and smiling even after one of he worst two week periods of my professional life. About ( Read more... )