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[**BBC News | World | UK Edition**](http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/default.stm) says: >[**Ukraine candidate ‘was poisoned’**](http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/europe/4088345.stm) >Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko’s mystery illness was caused by poisoning, doctors say. Interestingly enough I worked for a health and environmental risk assessment firm in my youth and one of the substances that we investigated was dioxin. The only disease that it…
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[**code: theWebSocket;**](http://ahawkins.org/) says: >[**MarsEdit 1.0 Released!**](http://ranchero.com/marsedit/) > Another fine product from Ranchero Software. It just works, like the rest of the stuff Brent writes. Yep. You’re soaking in it, Madge. I couldn’t agree more.
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Surgical Education in the United States: Portents for Change This is an excellent article clearly identifying the problems that face surgeons and surgical education and the potential for severe physician/surgeon shortages in the next decade or so. > A recent survey of 70 medical schools in 35 states reported shortages in surgeons that approximate 20%.…
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Switch-Case » Podder.py version 0.3.3 is out. In this version Clint Ecker has fixed a problem I was having with podder.py not following cgi redirects. Clint’s podder.py script in combination with [NetNewsWire][1] has proven to be a simple and effective combination at combining podcast downloading and iTunes. I can’t say enough good things about [NNW][1],…
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I’m on call this week. Oh joy. Call isn’t one of those things used to build a practice anymore — but that’s a topic for another day. I was consulted, “General Surg consult to on-call surgeon.” The patient is in the ICU, came in via the ED the night before last but they (ED) didn’t…
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Fixed a small but potentially confusing problem where if some of the Markdown syntax was incorrect in a post then all the posts on that page wouldn’t have Markdown markup correctly rendered. Simple fix to put the rendering part in a try statement. Now only the incorrectly formatted post doesn’t get rendered correctly. This should…
