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	<description>The director of the Sexual Medicine Center leaves penile implants behind, and launches a quest for knowledge about Artificial Intelligence, extended life, and the issues inside the health-care industry.</description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Big Business!</title>
		<link>http://drchip.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/its-big-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>retired urologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On his blog, Science-Based Medicine, Dr. David Gorski posted about the pharmaceutical marketing technique of &#8220;seeding trials&#8221;. I had participated in one such ruse, although I was unaware that it had its own official name. As I commented to Dr. Gorski:
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		<title>Kind vs. Kindly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>retired urologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m altruistic, which isn&#8217;t the same thing as being kindly. I hold doors open for little old ladies. That&#8217;s not the same as liking the people I meet. - Eliezer Yudkowsky
 You know better than to think that a random doctor will have extraordinary clarity of mind and the power to find truth within confusion.  It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drchip.wordpress.com&blog=4525937&post=592&subd=drchip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if doctors were tenured?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>retired urologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reason is the unique path to knowledge. This is the credo of rationalism. Existence as a pure rationalist may be a highly-prized state, but getting there certainly is not &#8220;half the fun&#8221;. There is a lot of pain involved in recognizing and discarding long-held positions when they do not pass the rationality test. On the lead page of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drchip.wordpress.com&blog=4525937&post=579&subd=drchip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Singularity Summit &#8216;08 from a non-nerd</title>
		<link>http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/singularity-summit-08-from-a-non-nerd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>retired urologist</dc:creator>
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San Jose, California: the most expensive place to live in the USA. The international airport is only three miles from the historic downtown district, but my imaginative taxi driver was still able to get the meter up to $25. On Sunday morning, city employees are out power-washing the sidewalks and pedestrian alleyways. The &#8220;light train&#8221; seemingly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drchip.wordpress.com&blog=4525937&post=555&subd=drchip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do you know the way to San Jose?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>retired urologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long-time reader, first-time visitor to Silicon Valley. I just arrived for the Singularity Summit. It will be interesting to see how out-of-place a redneck sex doctor will be in this sea of geniuses. More to follow.
Add-On: see today&#8217;s Summit summary.
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		<title>Nude Banzai</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>retired urologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post is a chapter from my not-yet-published book, Chasing a Light Beam. If you actually read it, please let me have your criticism.


 
NUDE BANZAI
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.  
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		<title>Out of my league</title>
		<link>http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/out-of-my-league/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>retired urologist</dc:creator>
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The students at Park Shore Junior High came from “feeder” elementary schools, back in the days when no one went to private schools, and you lived where you learned. I didn&#8217;t have much experience with kids from the “haves” neighborhoods; I was a “have-not”. I don’t mean I was homeless or raised by beggars, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drchip.wordpress.com&blog=4525937&post=417&subd=drchip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bigger is better</title>
		<link>http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/bigger-is-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>retired urologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the mid-1970&#8217;s, few doctors and almost none of the general public were aware of the existence of one of the 20th century&#8217;s most wonderful and most overlooked inventions: the inflatable penile prosthesis. Not so for the late Lafayette, Louisiana barrister J. Minos Simon (it&#8217;s a Cajun name, pronounced &#8220;minus see-maw&#8221;). His private medical library rivaled that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drchip.wordpress.com&blog=4525937&post=409&subd=drchip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No good deed goes unpunished</title>
		<link>http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>retired urologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Doc, I just cain&#8217;t get a hard-on by no-ways, and it&#8217;s torturin&#8217; my wife and a-killin&#8217; me.&#8221; The man was from the &#8220;redneck&#8221; area of Louisiana, a society very different from the Cajun-influenced culture of &#8220;Acadiana&#8221;, the site of my practice. He was an evangelical born-again-Christian 54-year-old hypertensive diabetic who had not been able to have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drchip.wordpress.com&blog=4525937&post=404&subd=drchip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doctor education #2&#8230; more real-life drama</title>
		<link>http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/doctor-education-2-more-real-life-drama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>retired urologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a call from a pharm rep for a company that markets one of the three well-known pills for treating erectile dysfunction one day about five years ago. She lived and worked in the alluvial plain area of the Mississippi delta. If you have never listened to a woman from &#8220;the delta&#8221;, as they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drchip.wordpress.com&blog=4525937&post=354&subd=drchip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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