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New Years Resolutions that
we'll be sure to keep: "Never pass wind in a wetsuit! "
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Crack-U-Up
Medical Fun!
A woman goes to the doctor
for her yearly physical. The nurse starts with her vital signs.
"How much do you weigh?"
she asks.
"115," she says.
The nurse puts her on the scale. It turns out her weight is 140.
The nurse asks, "Your
height?"
"5 foot 8," she says.
The nurse checks and sees that she only measures 5' 5".
She then takes her blood pressure
and tells the woman it is very high.
"Of course it's high!"
she screams, "When I came in here I was tall and slender! Now
I'm short and fat!"
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Don't you love Bravo
TV's 'Project Runway'? This innovative dress, not from the show, would
have been great for those with intense party plans this weekend! Certainly
puts out some signals, doesn't it?
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Feature Article: Summer
Love
Patricia L. Raymond MD FACP FACG
The love letter stayed crumpled in my purse for a month. I was afraid
to open it.
I had identified the envelope immediately, by the gold ink and familiar
handwriting inscribing my address. But I was afraid to open it…would
I prove a disappointment to the sender? After all, this was to be
our first contact in six months.
The love letter was from me. To me. As part of our New Year’s
Eve ceremony, the members of my church had been assigned to write
a love letter to ourselves, full of praise, forgiveness, and hopes
and dreams for our future selves.
After filling both sides of the unlined 4x5 ½” sheet,
we lovingly folded our letters and then sealed them in SASE, putting
them in the care of our pastor, who was to mail them after six months
had elapsed. As predicted, I was startled on receipt of the letter,
having no recollection of the words I had labored over six months
before.
I glowed with joy as I finally read the words from my past-self this
morning. Past-me reminded me of the need to live and love fearlessly
and joyfully in the present. She encouraged me to let past transgressions
go. Goals that had been pushed to the wayside by daily time constraints
got a fresh burst of juice. Dreams discussed in the letter had either
been realized or were now revitalized. I experienced pure love. Me-love.
The love that no one else can provide for you, that speaks to your
heart.
Sit down this week and write a love letter to yourself.
It doesn’t have to be long, but allow it to be from your heart.
Share it with no one else. Dare to write of your pride in your accomplishments,
forgive yourself past trespass, and dream of what your future-self
might become. Seal it and stash it where you’ll find it mid
2006.Today, dare to be beautiful to yourself. Write
a love letter to your own heart.
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Meddler's Mock Medical Music:
In honor of our new Medicare prescription drug plan
(this was planned!?!), it's The Fifty Ninth ‘Scrip Drug
Song (feelin' Loopy)" Parody by Rick Duncan from AmIRight.com.
Whoa, man. I’m fading fast
The doc said the effects would pass
But, walkin’ round, I’m wobble/stoned
This isn’t fun, I’m feelin’ loopy
La la la la la land and
Feelin’ loopy Hit a lamppost, with
my noggin
Now it’s been two hours throbbin’
Take them pills three times a day
Antidepressants make me loopy
La did de da dee dah I’m
Feelin’ loopy
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I got no weed to smoke, no alcohol to drink
Yet somehow feel loaded and it’s hard to think
And the pharmacy charged me a hefty co-pay
Wife, I love you, cause I’m loopy
Boy, did I oh, my ha ha
Do ba dee whee ho ha lah di dah… |
If you have any fun Mock Medical Music, please share
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and we'll credit you!
The Sanity Store:
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Bedside Manners:
Letter to the Future You
No convienient clergy to hold and post your letter
of praise and hope to yourself? Try this f~ree service www.FutureMe.org.
At the FutureMe website, you can send a letter to yourself for as
little as a month away, or as long as several decades. Not meant to
be a reminder service, brouse some of the funny and poignant letters
their authors have chosen for open access. Then, write your own letter
to your future.
A 'Pat on the back
' to...
All those who sat and thought about their goals, great
or small for 2006-- and special points to those who didn't sit while
canoodling, but exercised! Concieve it, believe it... then achieve it!
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Dr.
Patricia Raymond takes medicine seriously...and herself
lightly. Dismayed by the increasingly
adversarial relationships in healthcare and our loss of joy in our
caring interactions, Dr. Raymond started Rx
For Sanity to spread her Rx for change to her medical colleagues.
The author of “Don’t Jettison Medicine: Resuscitate Your
Passion For the Career You Loved” and dozens of published articles
and abstracts, Dr. Raymond serves as an expert resource to the media.
She established Simply Screening
in 2004 to allow her to practice gastroenterology screening in an
atmosphere of comfort, respect, dignity and timeliness in partnership
with her patients, and hosts NPR's ‘House
Calls’, a weekly medical call-in show that empowers patients
to step up and accept responsibility for their own wellbeing.
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