Gold medals are gold for a reason. However, my skating coach said to me, “Competing is not about winning a medal. It’s about doing your best.” I replied, “If medals aren’t important, then why are they so shiny?” They aren’t made of tin or stone.
So somehow I came up with the crazy idea [...]
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Freezer burn is a tradition in every household. We visited a friend’s mother-in-law’s house a while back. There was a huge freezer in the basement, and I thought about all the shows and movies where people hide a dead body in the freezer. So as a joke I opened it up, ready to pretend [...]
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Sweaty hands? Feel the pressure? When I was younger, I used to sweat at the drop of a hat. In high school, I was in a show choir, “The Top 20.” One dreaded night just before a performance, I ripped my pants in a bad place, but in Ethel Merman style, the show [...]
“I’m scarred for life.” Not “scared” as in, “Run, Forrest, Run,” but as in, “You hurt me. You hurt me bad!”
Scars never really go away. They can diminish, but a scar is a scar: Al Pacino, Scarface– Batman’s Two Face– Joan Rivers– Oh, wait, those are multiple face lifts.
Remember in Lethal Weapon (I [...]
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Red is a bold color. You have to be brave to wear an all-red outfit. How many men have you seen wear a red suit, besides The Joker and Elton John?
I wear red ties. I don’t have any red pants or shirts. Shoe colors are “cordovan” or “ox blood,” but not red. Better [...]
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Joan Rivers says she’s had so much plastic surgery that when she dies, she’ll donate her body to Tupperware. You can laugh at her, as well as at her book, Men Are Stupid…And They Like Big Boobs: A Woman’s Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery.
However, she has a point: people are cruel when it [...]
Sunburn happens in 35% of American adults & 80% of kids every year. Sunburn is easier in fair white-skinned folks with light hair. Sunscreen prevent sunburn
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Plantar Warts make the skin grow too rapidly so they look like cauliflower. Plantar warts are from Human Papillomavirus (HPV). Plantar warts can be hard to treat
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“I’m hairy noon and night. Hair that’s a fright. I’m hairy high and low. Don’t ask me why. Don’t know” (Hair, the musical).
At my school, Denison University, when we produced Hair, they actually had a nude scene, though the lights were spinning all over the place, and I could tell a bum bum [...]
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Sunburn makes me realize how often people slap me. “Hey mate!” Slap on the singed shoulder. “Can you believe that!” Slap on the red thigh. “Give me a hug!” Slap Slap Slap on the burned back.
Remember on I Love Lucy when sunburned Lucy wore a tweed dress on the runway? She walked like domo [...]
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Injuries can be the kiss of death to an athlete. When Nancy Kerrigan got konked on the knee before the Olympics, her scream was the whine heard ’round the world: “Why me? Why me?” (A normal person would have just yelled, “Ow!”) On the other hand, golfer Ben Hogan almost died in a 1949 [...]
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Sweaty hands? Feel the pressure? When I was younger, I used to sweat at the drop of a hat. In high school, I was in a show choir, “The Top 20.” One dreaded night just before a performance, I ripped my pants in a bad place, but in Ethel Merman style, the show must [...]
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Gold medals are gold for a reason. However, my skating coach said to me, “Competing is not about winning a medal. It’s about doing your best.” I replied, “If medals aren’t important, then why are they so shiny?” They aren’t made of tin or stone.
So somehow I came up with the crazy idea to [...]
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on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 at 4:20 pm and is filed under Dermatology, Infections.
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Cooking is an art form. When I was a medical student, I didn’t know how to cook. Everything I made was either a salad or a sandwich. One time I invited my now partner-in-life to dinner. I served a baked potato, but I didn’t have any butter– so I did what Martha Stewart would do– [...]
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The Beatles sang a great song, “Here Comes the Sun.” I love the sun; it makes a gray day… well, sunny. “Sunny, thank you for the sunshine in my life…”
Regardless of how much we love the sun, skin cancer is on the rise. So a rock group like No Doubt needs to come up [...]
When I was a freshman in college, my fellow pre-med friend, George, pointed at my face and laughed. I asked him what was so funny. He chanted, “You’ve got a herpes, you’ve got a herpes…” and did a funny bunny-like dance.
The classroom erupted in laughter as I defended myself, “It’s a zit!” (This [...]
“How dry I am…”
Is that song about alcohol, hair, or skin? When I was a medical resident, a fun dermatologist (who cussed like a sailor) gave us a lecture. He said that in the winter time, dry skin is very common. He called it “winter’s rash.” His solution to the problem of dry [...]
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