Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Advice From the Wu Wei Zone
I've gotten in the habit of giving "advice from the wu wei zone." What's funny about this is that I often get looks like the one this dog is giving.Huh?What's also funny about this is that I know that the people who need to "get it" will, and those who don't will either struggle with it until they do, or not.Either way, doesn't matter to me.Not that I'm cold and heartless about it. I trust that


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Physician Profile: Joel Morgenlander, MD, Wears His Heart on His Lapel
Joel Morgenlander, MD, Duke professor of neurology, loves his work, his students, and his lapel pins.
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Transplanting Below the Diaphragm
Since 1984, the abdominal-organ transplantation team has performed thousands of kidney, liver, and pancreas transplants in children and adults, as well as combined transplants such as heart-kidney and lung-liver -- one young patient with congenital heart disease recently received a heart-lung-liver transplant.
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Implanting Hope
A drug-delivery device implanted in Lucy Thompson's eye gives her relief.
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The Mistake of Avoiding Pain
I am convinced that a huge amount of our emotional and mental distress is a direct result of our desire to avoid pain.Pain is a gift.Pain is a signal that something is wrong. It's like an alarm system. If you feel physical pain for any length of time, you know something is wrong with your body.The same applies to emotional pain.And we will do almost anything to avoid emotional pain. We stuff


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Macular Degeneration Drugs Go Head-to-Head in Large-Scale Clinical Trial
Duke is a site for this long-anticipated, multicenter clinical trial, which will compare the effectiveness of Lucentis and Avastin in treating this blinding eye disease.
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Living Meditation
Meditation isn't necessarily some mysterious, mystical exercise. In it's purest form, it is simply quieting the mind and it can be done anywhere at any time.I wanted to offer a few tips for doing some simple meditation exercises for people who are busy...at work, in traffic, generally in situations where your circumstances can seem overwhelming and frustrating. Sometimes life just comes at you


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Rhinoplasty: Better Breathing and Better Looking
Jeffrey R. Marcus, MD, talks about the risks and benefits and do's and don'ts of rhinoplasty -- or "nose job."
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The Perception Deception
Look at this picture and focus on the black dot in the center. Now lean forward and backward while staring at the dot.Does the outer ring move?We've all seen pictures like this. The real question is what is reality? Is the outer ring really moving or do we just perceive it as moving?We've all seen hypnosis in action. We all know about subliminal advertising. Why do advertising executives


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Daily Affirmations and Mantras
This is Stuart Smalley, brought to life by Al Franken on Saturday Night Live in the late 80's and early 90's in a bit he called Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley. He has said that he based the character on his own experience with Alcoholics Anonymous.It was a funny bit.The funniest thing that I've found is that daily affirmations actually work. In many ways, they can function as mantras.It


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