v: to prevent; to “nip it in the bud” (apologies to Barney Fife) Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
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What is Truth?
What is truth? Hard to say. Facts and fiction seldom appear in our universe as pure polar opposites. They arrive bound at the hip like hydrogen and oxygen, seeping into every crack in our lives, quenching our thirst for knowledge,…
Hypnocritical
We humans seem programmed to spot our own faults in other people so well that we should replace the word hypocritical. We’re hypnocritical. Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
Beginnings
I believe that life begins at penetration. At least, that’s how it felt for me. Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
Passion for Global Health Drives Medical Student
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center website — May 15, 2013 Fourth-year medical student Tracy Cassagnol almost chose a career in journalism, but an undergraduate trip to report on farm workers in the Bahamas sparked a change of heart. “I…
Mumps and Whooping Cough: Researchers Seek New Cures for Old Foes
Wake Forest School of Medicine website—January 2013 Over the past decade, the United States has seen outbreaks of mumps and whooping cough, despite childhood immunization programs in place since the 1960s. Wake Forest School of Medicine (WFSM) researchers are…
Seed Money Launches Successful Arthritis Research Program
Wake Forest School of Medicine website—December 2012 Research funding from the National Institutes of Health and from foundations is extremely competitive. Only about one in 10 grant applications advances beyond the initial peer review process to be considered for…
The Fire Inside
Book Review: AND SO IT GOES: KURT VONNEGUT: A LIFE by Charles J. Shields Henry Holt and Co., 2011 Many biographies include in their titles the phrase, “a life.” When it comes to Kurt Vonnegut, what a life it…
Wake Forest School of Medicine Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative – 2011 Annual Report
I helped conceptualize the format and wrote the text for this annual report. Click on image to download PDF Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!