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Jan 11, 20234 min read

Now, where did I put my glasses?

A common medical term is sequela. You pronounce it like this: seh-QWEL-uh. And it means the after-effects of a disease. In other words, a...

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What Our Prehistoric Ancestors Taught Us about Social Connection (and Why COVID Changed All That)

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Jun 26, 20223 min read

What Our Prehistoric Ancestors Taught Us about Social Connection (and Why COVID Changed All That)

Let us turn back the clock several million years. We humans survived in small groups of families and clans. We sat around campfires, we...

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Feb 11, 20223 min read

How do some people thrive in chaos?

A casual comment by a colleague came out of the blue: “I am just tired of the pandemic, tired of the political discourse, tired of this...

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Jan 10, 20224 min read

The Queen's Gambit and COVID: Checkmate

An international chess game is brewing as Russia has positioned more than 100,000 troops close to the border with Ukraine. Any further...

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Like Rats in a Cage, Are We Witnessing the Collapse of the Healthcare System?

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Dec 27, 20214 min read

Like Rats in a Cage, Are We Witnessing the Collapse of the Healthcare System?

A classic laboratory experiment involving rodents goes something like this. These smart little caged rats quickly figure out if they...

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Dec 19, 20213 min read

Do I have to draw you a picture?

The virus variants affect us all, and our lives hang in the balance Growing up in the murky world of thoroughbred racing on the East...

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Dec 12, 20213 min read

“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”

The most reprinted newspaper editorial in the English language appeared in the September 1897 New York Sun when eight-year-old Virginia...

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Riding the COVID roller coaster. Have we reached the “Point of No Return”?

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Dec 4, 20214 min read

Riding the COVID roller coaster. Have we reached the “Point of No Return”?

Our world plummeted down the rabbit hole of chaos in March 2020 when the nightmare of COVID disintegrated our daily lives. With the...

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Lesson from the Tree Guys: Don't Get Killed

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Oct 5, 20213 min read

Lesson from the Tree Guys: Don't Get Killed

A brisk horizontal wind swept through our community in September. Not quite a tornado, but the winds toppled large trees, pulled down...

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Sep 7, 20212 min read

Not the Spam You Think

Some Divisions Never Heal (and Why We Need to Put Our Differences Aside Now) Austin, Minnesota, was, in the 1980s, a rural community...

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How to Find Meaning and Purpose during a Pandemic in a Most Unexpected Way

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Aug 26, 20213 min read

How to Find Meaning and Purpose during a Pandemic in a Most Unexpected Way

Stevie has the personality, the looks, the anatomy, the architecture to be, without question, a winning performer. She has the right...

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It's Not 'Game Over' with This Deadly Pandemic

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Aug 10, 20213 min read

It's Not 'Game Over' with This Deadly Pandemic

We're playing the same risky game with a deadly pandemic. We know what works. We know how to institute a game-winning strategy, but in...

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Troubled Times Call for a Declaration of Independence

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Jul 30, 20214 min read

Troubled Times Call for a Declaration of Independence

Troubling times. With COVID we have taken many steps forward toward eradicating this plague, yet now we are taking steps backward as...

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Jul 19, 20214 min read

The Plague That Won't Go Away

We have become too complacent about the risks from COVID. The results can be disastrous. Let's look at some prudent guidelines.

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Apr 16, 20215 min read

The Main Thing Is the Main Thing

Where should you put your attention in a post-COVID world? As we slowly stumble out of the pandemic fog and try to find our way in a...

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Life after COVID (Spoiler alert: not much different) but Medical Care Is Changed Forever

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Mar 23, 20213 min read

Life after COVID (Spoiler alert: not much different) but Medical Care Is Changed Forever

Our nightmare of death and misery is over a year old now. We live with spikes and plateaus, shots and deniers, masks and distancing,...

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Feb 8, 20213 min read

The Road to Normalcy Took a Gravel Road

For most of us, the nightmare of this pandemic started a year ago with the onset of shelter in-place and stay-at-home executive mandates....

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Feb 1, 20213 min read

COVID-19, Confusion, and Complications

The lines were long. People with children were standing in line for a shot in the arm, eagerly waiting to be immunized against a killer...

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The COVID Vaccine: The Promise, the Perils, the Hope, the Forgotten

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Jan 25, 20212 min read

The COVID Vaccine: The Promise, the Perils, the Hope, the Forgotten

A year ago. We had yet to ponder the implications of a deadly virus attacking the world. We had no clue what lay ahead for us. A year...

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Jan 8, 20211 min read

ED Talk: Mutants among Us

With widespread vaccine protection on the horizon, Dr. Ed warns about mutant strains among us and just how infectious such variants can...

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