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Cruel Shoes

GlassHospital is on vacation this week, writing to you from vibrant Toronto. Toronto is home to the Bata Shoe Museum, well worth a visit if you’re ever here on a Thursday night when admission is free. In addition to a display featuring shoes of Elton John and

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Taking Stock

This week I wanted to tell you how grateful I am that you’ve been a GlassHospital reader. We’re at the six month mark of our “go live,” and I wanted to share with you some of the successes that you’ve helped make possible. In six months of “publication,” GlassHospital has been seen by: 9,000 unique [...]

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RIP: HP (1939-2010)

Talk about kicking a city when it’s down. You can take the boy out of Cleveland, but you can probably never squeeze all of the burning Cuyahoga out of me. After watching the media frenzy surrounding basketballer LeBron James and his utter betrayal/stabbing us in the back exercising his economic options, now this: Harvey Pekar [...]

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Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 41

GlassHospital is excited to announce that on July 6th we’ll be hosting the worldwide web’s Grand Rounds. What does this mean? Tune in here July 6th. We’ll be posting the finest medical writing from around the blogosphere. Anyone writing about an aspect of medicine is eligible to send in a post. Doesn’t matter if you’re [...]

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