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‘Best’ ways to die?

Two ophthalmologists go for a walk and contemplate death

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A cloudy view of the future

Some days I just can’t help feeling great about the future, especially the future of medicine. And then on other days, like today, I watch videos and read stories on the Internet of people being gunned...

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Not to wax poetic . . .

Thanks to the Polar Vortex, this has been a harsh—some might say cruel—winter in my little town that sits along the border between North and South. Thankfully, we have the poetry of William Carlos...

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Making fun of doctors

‘Like’ it or not, physician jokes abound on Facebook

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Why a new oral therapy for hepatitis C may be a game changer

Why a new oral therapy for hepatitis C may be a game changer

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How to spend $450 million wisely

Blowing through a half-billion dollars is probably a lot harder than it seems

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Working the system at expense of veteran care

Sending email messages about how to cheat

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The Grotto of Font-De-Gaume

Examining the intelligence of the early man through artistic expression

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Art Appreciation: The Grotto of Font-De-Gaume

Examining the intelligence of the early man through artistic expression

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Using hard words (or, if you prefer, complex verbiage)

Using hard words (or, if you prefer, complex verbiage)

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Working hard, hardly working?

Where the experts may have gotten this one wrong

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Why doctors have bigger houses than lawyers

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Nicotine eye patch hits ophthalmic nerve

Does occlusion of eye to achieve smoking cessation really make sense?

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The 12-year-old CEO

This person looked about as much as a twelve-year-old as do I, and at the risk of sounding rude I told him that perhaps one of us had enjoyed a little too much champagne. "I will explain," he said, and...

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Why pediatric ophthalmologists don't go to late night parties

Just like cataract surgery has evolved during my career from a three-day inpatient experience of extracapsular extraction to a three-hour outpatient experience of phaco, we physicians and our practices...

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Dopamine: My drug of choice

What attracts the attention of neurons in ophthalmologists

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How long will you live?

Test subjects not going to take short-life span sitting down

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Unpopular science

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If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy?

By just about anybody's definition of success, ophthalmologists are successful: intelligent, well-paid, able to make people’s lives better and held in high esteem by the public. Not to mention...

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Ophthalmology and death by poison

Ophthalmologists certainly have the means to go around poisoning people

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