Very true. Just finished the Steve Jobs biography and am feeling very motivated to get this thing rolling again…
Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book. All somebody needs to do is scroll through your library on that click wheel, and, musically speaking, you're naked. It's not just what you like--it's who you are.– Steven Levy
I’m not suggesting we allow misery, or deny appropriate medications. I’m saying, things sometimes hurt. We live in a time when sturdy carpenters want Percocet for minor finger injuries. When teens want Lortab for ankle sprains. When young women with sunburns want something to ‘put me to sleep.’– Edwin Leap
As somebody who has broken his arm (several times) and the majority of his fingers and yet never takes anything stronger than Advil (ok, occasionally, Aleve), I have to agree.
Development and psychometric evaluation of scales that assess stigma associated with illicit drug users. #
Coauthored an article with Joseph Palamar and Perry Halkitis from CHIBPS (at NYU). I might be biased but I happen to think this drug stigma scale is one of the more rigorously validated ones out there… Just saying.
Sex parties among young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in New York City: Attendance and Behavior. #
Does one article make you an expert? If so, I’m now a gay sex parties in New York City expert… Published in Journal of Urban Health.
Since the Surgical Safety Checklist is my major research project right now, I feel obligated to post this: An airline pilot’s wife goes in for a routine surgical procedure that quickly turns into an adverse event.
A case for safety leadership team training of hospital managers. #
Newly minted article. I’m still new to the style of writing for health management journals, but can safely say I’ve got at least one under my belt…
QIN (n): A Chinese zither, with strings stretched across a flat box. (Scrabble score: 12)– The Scotsman
FIQH (n): An expansion of Islamic sharia law, based directly on the Koran and Sunnah. (Scrabble score: 19)
For those pesky Scrabble games where you somehow always end up with every Q and no U’s.
The Dutchess and The Duke – Living This Life on Luxury Wafers Sessions.
Totally unrelated to public health–it’s just been playing in my head all day.