Browsing the archives for the reminiscence category

Back to School

For five years I worked at GlassHospital’s Student Care Center. One of the great things about GlassHospital is that it sits on the campus of a well-known and fairly well-respected former Big Ten university. (What’s that you say? That’s right….Big Ten…in the 1930′s! You can still go to the main athletic gym and see the [...]

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Doctor Yenta

GlassHospital has been featured in a publication produced down the road at FancyHospital. I’m delighted to share with you the recently published issue No. 8 of Atrium, available free for download by clicking on the link here. Many readers know of my ‘wisdom’ project in which I brought together a retired biochemist and a retired [...]

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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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A Grand Rounds Celebration!

Hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend. GlassHospital is proud to host this week’s Grand Rounds, a compendium of medical-related writing and blogging from around the world. This week’s theme, in honor of the holiday, is CELEBRATION. Here at GH we’re pleased to be celebrating the six month anniversary of our debut. We have 21 [...]

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