3D Eye Surgery (or I am a Fool)
Media outlets of all types see April 1st of each year as a time to play with their audiences. These stories rarely "catch" me because they typically have to be…
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I have been sick for about 10 days. With what started out as a cold. It still amazes me that, with all our sophisticated technology, we cannot figure out how…
The Common Cold
I have a cold. It is a very common cold. Nothing special. Just enough to make me want to sleep at 2 in the afternoon. We can land humans on…
Influenza Epidemics
My grandmother will turn 92 this April. If you do the math, you will see that she was born in 1918, a year in which hundreds of thousands of Americans…
H1N1
I had my annual physical last week and my nurse practioner mentioned that they had an abundance of the H1N1 flu vaccine. Because I have asthma, I almost always get…
Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Radical Medical Technology
Unless you have been on an island somewhere lately, you probably know that Eunice Kennedy Shriver has been hospitalized for the past few days and died this morning at age…
Recognizing Patterns for NetFlix
My area of research when I was in computer science was artificial intelligence. AI is a broad field with many subfields, each of which has many applications. Within AI, I was…
Changing Medical Technology
I just finished reading My Lobotomy by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming. Howard Dully received a transorbital lobotomy (also known as an "ice-pick lobotomy") when he was 12 years old. The…
