When I was a kid, I used to read everything from Spider-Man to X-Men, but Iron Man was never one of my favorite comic book heroes. Who would have imagined in years to come that all these superheroes’ stories would become blockbuster movies? I guess it’s like Bonnie Tyler’s hit song, “I Need a [...]
Chest pains: yes, certain things give me chest pains. People who don’t put their shopping cart away! Grocery stores should handcuff the cart to such patrons and un-handcuff them when they return the cart. Litter bugs! Can’t you put your cigarette in your ashtray for proper disposal later? The highway is not a [...]
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When I was a child in New York City, my parents actually belonged to a country club. I remember these ladies with B-52 beehive hairdos in their swimsuits lying on the pool chairs. It was from these ladies that I learned the sidestroke.
Here’s how it works. The ladies would dip their polished toenails [...]
Six Feet Under is probably my favorite television series ever. The Fisher & Sons Funeral Home was not a fun place like a disco club or an amusement park, but it was a quite interesting. In the very first episode, Nathaniel Fisher, the father of the family, is driving his brand-new hearse and smoking [...]
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“Scab” is such an interesting word. I remember the culture shock in third grade when we moved from the Big Apple to Nowhereland, Ohio– and the shock was more for them than us. They looked and talked to us like we were Martians. (”We come in peace, but if you aren’t peaceful, I’m going [...]
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on Sunday, September 27th, 2009 at 12:21 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular, Pulmonary.
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Mountain biking is exhilarating, moving, and fun. I am also the world’s slowest mountain biker. Lance Armstrong should present me an award for this. While I believe in pushing myself physically, I have my limitations. I don’t like looking like road-kill on the side of a bike path.
We’d never been to Lake Tahoe [...]
Choir performances were always nerve-wracking for me when I was growing up, but in ninth grade we actually had something fun to do in a performance. We clapped our hands and stomped our feet, like a choo-choo-zam-bing! The risers were shaking as we did that, and suddenly the girl in front of me was [...]
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on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 2:58 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular.
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Stroke of luck. Have you had any lately? I don’t know the last time I was affected by a stroke of luck. I golfed my entire childhood and always tried to keep my strokes down, but it seemed it was always the last three holes that destroyed my score. Michael Phelps had amazing strokes [...]
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on Sunday, June 21st, 2009 at 11:48 am and is filed under Cardiovascular, Neurologic.
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Sex after marriage is something we’ve all heard about– and most have ignored. Sex after heart attack? Now that’s a million dollar question.
In The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke has a massive heart attack. (I still can’t believe that’s the same actor who seduced Kim Basinger in Nine ½ Weeks. It’s like he entered a [...]
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on Sunday, May 31st, 2009 at 3:23 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular, Sex Issues.
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PCI is coronary artery intervention done during cardiac catheterization. PCI done during an acute coronary event. Over a million PCIs are done on Americans every year.
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Trans Fats – Yummy but don’t be a dumby with your heart | Trans Fats | No Trans Fats
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on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular, Food, Video.
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Vytorin is a cholesterol lowering medication. Vytorin was reported January 14, 2008 about the ENHANCE trial. Vytorin has not been shown to reduce CIMT
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In the movie Beaches, Bette Midler was with Barbara Hershey to the end. Barb was lying on a chaise-lounge on the beach wearing an oxygen mask, because she was dying of congestive heart failure from cardiomyopathy (enlarged, weakened heart).
The audience heard Bette singing “Wind beneath My Wing,” and I’m sorry, but I cry [...]
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on Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 at 9:24 am and is filed under Cardiovascular.
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Caffeine makes the world go round. As a child, I never liked my parents’ instant coffee. It tasted like brown water to me.
But when I was a college freshman and had to study all night long, I was really tired. So, one day, my friends had me drink a cup of [...]
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on Saturday, December 6th, 2008 at 2:29 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular, Food.
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Chest pains: yes, certain things give me chest pains. People who don’t put their shopping cart away! Grocery stores should handcuff the cart to such patrons and un-handcuff them when they return the cart. Litter bugs! Can’t you put your cigarette in your ashtray for proper disposal later? The highway is not a garbage [...]
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on Friday, August 29th, 2008 at 5:59 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular, Emergencies.
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Ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer must have had a pretty big ego to think he could hire prostitutes and not get caught. Hello! But then again, it seems most powerful people get a swollen head and feel untouchable-until they get a swollen lip when they get caught. Perhaps if the head did visibly swell up, it [...]
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DuPont used to advertise “better living through chemistry.” Couples usually talk about the “chemistry” that brought them together. (In Britney Spears and K-Fed’s case, I think their chemistry involved ethanol, among other things.) Bad chemistry between Moonlighting’s Cybil Sheppard and Bruce Willis made the show a smash.
When I was taking organic chemistry, our [...]
Courage: what does it mean to you? To the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz, it meant he would be king of the forest (though personally I think Queen would be more fitting). For Kerri Strug, the Olympic gymnast, it meant landing on one leg on the vault event to ensure a gold medal [...]
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Six Feet Under is probably my favorite television series ever. The Fisher & Sons Funeral Home was not a fun place like a disco club or an amusement park, but it was a quite interesting. In the very first episode, Nathaniel Fisher, the father of the family, is driving his brand-new hearse and smoking [...]
Korean as I am, I’m not very Korean. I didn’t learn the language, so all my relatives call me “stupid” in Korean. I don’t even know how to spell “stupid” in Korean– something like “pa-bow.” When I go to South Korea, they think I look Chinese. In fact, when I eat dim sum, the Chinese [...]
Arnold Schwarzenegger– excuse me, Governor Schwarzenegger– is quite an interesting man. When I was a teenager and saw him in Conan the Barbarian, I didn’t think he could act. (How hard can it be to act like a barbarian?) Even decapitating his enemies didn’t seem real. Lederhosen would have been more realistic on him– but [...]
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on Saturday, August 5th, 2006 at 2:37 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular.
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Sweat– or is it perspire? According to the dictionary, both verbs sweat and perspire mean “To excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin.” Proper Brits know “Horses sweat; men perspire; but ladies glow.” Judy Garland didn’t know about glow. She said, “I wish I could just perspire. Unfortunately, I sweat!” Tina Turner sweats so [...]
Things pop all the time. “Pop goes the weasel!” “I’m so mad my head is going to pop off!” “Pop open the trunk.”
We pop off the heads of dandelions. At the movies we eat pop corn. In the Midwest, soda is called “pop.” Champagne corks can pop into your eye and cause damage (a [...]
There are too many homonyms and acronyms that all sound the same but have different meanings. How in the world can we keep up with all the different meanings for the same-sounding words?
For example, PSA in medicine means “prostate specific antigen,” but at the news station it means “public service announcement.” There are many [...]
When I was a child in New York City, my parents actually belonged to a country club. I remember these ladies with B-52 beehive hairdos in their swimsuits lying on the pool chairs. It was from these ladies that I learned the sidestroke.
Here’s how it works. The ladies would dip their polished toenails [...]
One of my favorite movies is Something’s Gotta Give with Diane Keaton. Why did she show up at the Oscars wearing her Annie Hall outfit? That is so ’70s, and she didn’t win the Oscar again in that outfit.
Anyway, Keaton’s young daughter is dating old Jack Nicholson. While “fooling around” Nicholson starts to have [...]
In Asia, red meat is as rare as pink diamonds in America (though I’m sure J Lo might have a trove). When my cousins immigrated from South Korea in 1975, I remember how much red meat they ate. They ate so much steak and Korean beef BBQ that I thought they were going to put [...]
