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Happy new year and inauguration day everyone. Medicine should be this easy.

First post in 2009!

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas guys! Too bad I could not make it to the annual CHO party, but I really miss you all. I have nothing new to report - same job, same boyfriend, same car...oh, I found out that Natalie Cjvan..(how do you spell her name again?) is now a PICU attending at Kaiser Oakland, but for those of you who are still working at/for CHO, this is probably not news.

Love,
Karen

Coffee Art

[more coffee art]

just thought there might be some coffee drinkers in this group who will appreciate this...

Many doctors plan to quit or cut back: survey

sorta gloomy outlook on our careers...

http://health.yahoo.com/news/reuters/us_doctors_usa_survey.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/17/primary.care.doctors.study/index.html

One of my favorite story lines of this election season.

The pertinent excerpts from Gen. Colin Powell's Meet the Press appearance:

- "I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, "Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim." Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is?"

"I feel strongly about this particular point because of a picture I saw in a magazine. It was a photo essay about troops who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. And one picture at the tail end of this photo essay was of a mother in Arlington Cemetery, and she had her head on the headstone of her son's grave. And as the picture focused in, you could see the writing on the headstone. And it gave his awards--Purple Heart, Bronze Star--showed that he died in Iraq, gave his date of birth, date of death. He was 20 years old. And then, at the very top of the headstone, it didn't have a Christian cross, it didn't have the Star of David, it had crescent and a star of the Islamic faith. And his name was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, and he was an American. He was born in New Jersey. He was 14 years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until he can go serve his country, and he gave his life. Now, we have got to stop polarizing ourself in this way. And John McCain is as nondiscriminatory as anyone I know. But I'm troubled about the fact that, within the party, we have these kinds of expressions."