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Kill all the Pigs

By David W. Boles on October 1, 2009 8:50 AM | 4 Comments
"Kill all the pigs!" -- was the fallow and forsaken outcry in Egypt.  "If the pigs are dead," the ill-rationed reasoning flew, "then we won't get the swing flu virus."  Oh, how woefully wrong they were.

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Hiding from the Swine

By David W. Boles on May 4, 2009 12:11 PM | 2 Comments
Last week, three of the top ten sellers on Amazon.com were surgical masks.  People were buying the masks in a feint effort to protect themselves from the onslaught of the Swine Flu pandemic. This week, we are brought into the realm of the ridiculously sublime in the fashionable, yet tasteless, animal face surgical mask:

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HIPAA Violations on Medical Dramas and Soap Operas

By Gordon Davidescu on April 6, 2009 1:33 PM | 5 Comments
In 1996, Congress passed a law bringing into effect the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, part of which was meant to protect the privacy of patient information. The simple act of calling a patient and leaving a message saying the results of a clinical test was now forbidden and considered a HIPAA violation.

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Inhaling Second and Feeling Fourteen

By David W. Boles on January 15, 2009 12:55 PM | 14 Comments
There is nothing grosser or more despicable than inhaling someone else's smoky exhale.

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Deleting Risky Teen Sex

By David W. Boles on January 8, 2009 1:13 PM | 23 Comments
Why do so many teens reveal the gross details of their unsafe sex lives online? Dr. Megan Moreno -- assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison -- wondered the same thing and set out to understand why.

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From Fresco to Rescue: The No Good Samaritan

By David W. Boles on December 22, 2008 2:27 PM | 10 Comments
Gospel of Luke, chapter 7, verses 25-37:

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Soap Operas and Public Health

By David W. Boles on December 17, 2008 9:45 AM | 14 Comments
We can learn a lot from television.  Sometimes the best teaching comes when presented in a dramatic form.  Soap Operas have been a stable of American television for fifty years and their very structure brings form to understanding.

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