This shape for this life; this pattern for that. Threads, molds, mixed metaphors....

"A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."

- Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

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New head of global surgical society aims to keep Africa on the cutting edge

Polymath

What are you willing to be hostage to?

http://ping.fm/SeVCd Journal Watch Emergency Medicine March 6, 2009 Benefits of Urgent Evaluation and Treatment for TIA and Minor Stroke

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Today, I think I would like to be like all those people who sleep EVERY day - when it's dark out....

Language is to meat as sin is to...

Enlightenment is some species of madness

Unmediated Gestalts

Does state subsume context?

To be broken once is something; to be broken infinitely is... to be remade.

I guess my polytrauma patients should be grateful to Boffard...

“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.” Buddha quotes
...My affections are blissfully unengaged....

Blithe

Google Earth helps discover rare hominid ancestor in South Africa http://ping.fm/ArjGY

Attitude cannot be taught, only nurtured

"A large literature from behavioral economics
and psychology finds that people often make inconsistent choices, fail to learn from
experience, exhibit reluctance to trade, base their own satisfaction on how their
situation compares with the satisfaction of others and depart from the standard
model of the rational economic agent in other ways."

Daniel Kahneman and Alan B. Krueger

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