2008 is Enough
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Biting the hand that reached out to touch me
I received a telemarketing call at 4:22 p.m. on January 13, 2009, in the middle of an ordinary work afternoon. It was one of those annoying recorded messages selling dentures, of all things. Although my home phone number has been on the National Do Not Call Registry nearly since its inception, we still get telemarketing calls once in a while.
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Jesus, Music and Chainsaws
Meet Forthman Murff, the man who nearly cut his own head off with a chainsaw and lived to talk about it.
The most popular clip at my web site is “Strange Cases: The Worst of Current Research,” a piece I wrote for the 10th Anniversary issue of JEMS: The Journal of Emergency Medical Services. This article gets far more hits than any other in my portfolio.
For eight years, I did a monthly column reviewing clinical research papers of interest to EMTs and paramedics. The gig didn’t pay a lot, but it forced me to keep up with a wide swath of the medical literature and was a great experience.
A couple of years into the Current Research column, I decided to liven things up by including a “Strange Case of the Month” based on offbeat but scientifically legitimate papers I encountered, such as a case series of deaths by tipping vending machines and a study of fatalities due to falling coconuts.
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