Monthly Archives: May 2008
Weather Update
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 27th May 2008They (the weather forecasters) did it again. They predicted the end of the world for the second day in a row and all we got were mosquitoes. Don’t place your faith in man – or at least not in the weatherman.
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Local Weather
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 26th May 2008Last night all the local TV stations interrupted regular programming to warn of an impending storm. The Weather Bug icon was flashing madly with the same warning. A severe thunderstorm was approaching Lubbock. Winds in excess of 70 mph were predicted. A wall of dust was said to be descending on the city. Hale was…
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Erik Sjöberg – The Forgotten Tenor
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 24th May 2008Last January I wrote that Birgit Nilsson considered Erik Sjöberg one of her three favorite tenors; the other two were Gigli and Di Stefano. I had never heard of Sjöberg and asked if anyone reading the piece could supply some information about the Danish singer. Several months later I was contacted by Torben Sjöberg, the…
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Blue Blues
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 21st May 2008This is a little off message, but every time my wife and I go to Grand Cayman (several times a year) we go to Blue – the five diamond restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Its an extravagance, but we rationalize by saying that our kids are paying for it. The place is noteworthy for its…
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The Insurance-Hospital-Pharmaceutical Complex
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 13th May 2008The naiveté of the press when it covers medicine is wondrous. There isn’t any cockamamie nonsense they won’t swallow whole. Katherine Q Seelye has a piece in the New York Times that is about politics. I don’t know much about politics so I can’t comment on most of it. But in discussing the positions of…
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Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 11th May 2008The pdf file below contains a detailed review of Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity that we published the the August 2007 issue The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. cisplatin-nephrotoxicity
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Who Should Die?
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 7th May 2008A recent report considers how physicians should triage patients in the event of a sudden catastrophe that overwhelms the medical system. “The suggested list was compiled by a task force whose members come from prestigious universities, medical groups, the military, and government agencies. They include the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control…
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