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Residency is the time in a physician's life when he or she has graduated from medical school, but is not yet fully licensed. It can range from three years up to thirteen years (depending on specialty and subspecialty), and is often the most intensive time in a physician's life.  Read More »

Up until November 14th of this year, I was living pretty good, at least as far as health insurance went. I got my prescriptions for free (and I was on birth control for a while, so that was really nice), got in to see my Primary Care Provider whenever I wanted, and got lab tests run all the time. I didn't have to pay a cent for it, and my mom only had to pay like $3 a month for it.  Read More »

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, whose members are commonly known as Mormons, is a rather controversial organization based on their religious beliefs.  Read More »

Sometimes, blog topics are just dropped into my lap, begging to be written about. That was exactly the case with this one. Because I am a Mary Kay consultant, I get e-mails from the company about various promotions that they are doing. Yesterday, I got an e-mail about the launch of a campaign called "Beauty That Counts."  Read More »

The other day, I was sitting in the break room for lunch. I was tired and exhausted, and glad to finally have a break from drawing blood. There were a few other people in there, including, at one point, the guy who is training me. We were just chatting, enjoying ourselves, and one of the ladies eating her lunch says she thinks she needs to find her husband another job. Why?  Read More »

Hello everyone,

We ran an update of the database last night and managed to fix some problems we've been having on the site. Unfortunately, we seem to have created a few more.  Read More »

I regret that I did not have a chance to write this blog yesterday, but today will have to do. Seventy years ago, the first major event of the Holocaust took place: Krystallnacht, the night of the broken glass.  Read More »

Everyone has said it in the days leading up to the election. No matter the outcome, this would be a truly historic election. But the focus of those saying this has primarily been on the Presidential election, not the other parts of the election from around the country. Granted, our Presidential election is huge, and I suspect because of it, we will see a great deal of change in the next 4 years.  Read More »