MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'garfield'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:41:22 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3429134&cid=t_206134_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2010%2F04%2F01%2Fjaime-escalante-dies-of-bladder-cancer%2F Filed under: Bladder Cancer, Daily newsJaime Escalante, the East Los Angeles math teacher whose story inspired the movie Stand and Deliver, died from bladder cancer at his son's home on Tuesday. The 79-year-old teacher was best known for transforming Garfield High School's math curriculum. Although Garfield High School once had struggling students, Escalante's persistence helped them master advanced math and science courses. During Escalante's time at the school, it had the fifth-highest number of advanced placement calculus students in the country, including the students that made him the most famous teacher in the country. In 1982, 14 of Escalante's students who passed the Advanced Placement calculus exam were accused of cheating. However, their innocence helped raise the working-cla... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3429134 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3429134 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1921034&cid=t_206134_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F10%2Fgarfield-fiendish-theif.html We drive home from school in a whirlpool of words.“A banana has two uses, food and entertainment!” he chortles. I am immediately aware that someone has stolen my child and replaced him with someone with verbal diarrhea. I turn to my daughter for clarification, “he’s been like that all day, since first thing, since assembly.”He hangs out the window to shout at the traffic guard, “hey give me yur lollipop and I’ll lick it fur you!” I hit the automatic window button and try not to amputate his arms in the exercise.“What happened in assembly?”“Popcorn, get yur popcorn here!”“He won the award thing, you know, ‘caught in the act of doing something good.’”“Gosh! Did he…….that’s …….wonderful…….isn’t it?”“Well it would have been.” I hardly dar... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1921034 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:58:00 +0100 1921034 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1868580&cid=t_206134_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F10%2Fghost-of-garfield.html I stand in the middle of the kitchen listening to NPR tell me that my brain, just like everyone else’s brain is incapable of multi-tasking. I happen to agree with them even though my behaviour betrays me. The implication, is that people positively choose to multi-task, rather than having multi-tasking thrust upon them. Personally, I can think of few things finer than having the luxury to devote all my attention to just one thing.Maybe I should pass the message on to the next generation.I know he likes to read these........I know he likes to ride this.........But rarely have I seen the two combined so determinedly.*Get the code:-Cut and pastefrom this littleboxy thing below If you like what you read, send it to someone in 'need.' (Source: Whitterer on Autism) Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1868580 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:59:00 +0100 1868580 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1594004&cid=t_206134_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F329135608%2F Pharma, as you know, has an image problem. Those of who us have followed the industry for several years could see it coming, but the generals and many of their troops missed, or perhaps ignored, the warning signs. In a chat with DTC Perspectives, Bob Garfield, Advertising Age columnist and host of National Public Radio’s On The Media, says lack of trust allowed the infamous Bob Jarvik ads for Pfizer’s Lipitor to be come a scandal when, he speculates, it may have amounted to nothing in years past. You can watch by clicking right here. Regarding online social networking: “If you’re scientists, and not just marketers, and you’re in the public health business, you should want those reports (by consumers from online sites)…even if that artificially inflates ... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1594004 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:18:59 +0100 1594004 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1526905&cid=t_206134_129_f&fid=36035&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fchronic-pain%2Flife-with-chronic-pain%2Fcluck-pluck-and-luck%2F James A. Garfield apparently said: “A pound of pluck,” While smiling broadly, “Is worth a ton of luck.” It makes me wonder about his life Do you think he had pain everyday? You think the trauma of politics Isn’t also a pain, in a way? Pain comes in many shapes and forms Your knee, my back, her neck; Other parts of life can also throb Sometimes life’s a wreck. Your spouse loses a job, Your teen-aged son wrecks the car The baby throws up on your best shirt And you’ve lost your Northern star. Sometimes the roof falls in And all we can do is cluck, cluck As we strive to move forward each day We’re driven by stubborn pluck. I have so many questions Not many answers that’s for sure, But I’m still on my feet, With a future that’s often obscure. I wonder if the road of li... Life with Chronic Pain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1526905 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:07:10 +0100 1526905