Behind Aspen’s international skiing luster lies a deep, competitive hockey culture that makes for a tough beer league. A drive to win the bragging rights to the battered Pell Cup turns architects, bartenders, contractors, lawyers, teachers, ski bums, and friends into fierce, fist-throwing rivals…former pros, Division I college players, and old goats—or, more accurately, has-beens […]
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Over the years when I invited friends over for dinner they got pretty excited. One day I asked a guest what’s with all the excitement? Chinese food! They were expecting something I really sucked at making. To this day I don’t make much Chinese/Asian stuff. I’d rather go out and eat something someone actually knows […]
When I finished reading The Writing Life by Annie Dillard I realized my writing will never achieve the level of the great ones. But I am OK with this just as I was OK with deciding not to pursue writing for a living. Too hard, too demanding, too much time spent writing words into the […]
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Wow! I totally understand though. I believe the electronic health record is destroying medicine.
My initial reaction exactly. There are multiple things in addition to EHR’s that are destroying the practice of medicine. Don’t get me started…
Reimbursement? Why am my Endocrinologist who spends 45 minutes discussing all aspects of my health is reimbursed $75. Where is my dermatologist who spends five minutes with me freezing a bunch of Ditzels
off is paid nearly $500.
One of life’s eternal mysteries.