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The Mexican Doctora

Just like most Americans, I have been to a variety of doctors in my life. Dr. Leach my pediatrician, Dr. Kramer in Boston, Dr. Marin in San Diego... and I can't forget those nameless, faceless clinic and ER docs I have seen throughout my life of food poisoning and broken glass.

But I never would have imagined that a most thorough and complete exam would have taken place in Tijuana. And it didn't - for me. But I was witness to a friend's examination in Mexico that would put any doctor in my past to shame.

My friend, suddenly without insurance, was running out of her "crazy" pills. They are very expensive in San Diego, but with a 15 minute drive and walk over the boarder, they are affordable. But you still need a prescription to get them in Mexicol - you have to visit a Mexican doc. So we did.

And let me just say... Dr. Esmeralda (60 year-old female doc in Tijuana) gets some major points and broke some serious prejudices in my book.
--Dylan
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2004.01.12
Passage of the Moment
Our lives are geared mainly to deflect the darts thrown at us by the laws of probability. The moment we're able, we insulate ourselves from random acts of hate and destruction. It's always been there - in the neighborhoods we build, the walls between our houses, the wariness with which we treat the unknown. One person in six million will be struck by lightning. Fifteen people in a hundred will experience clinical depression. One woman in sixteen will experience breast cancer. One child in 30,000 will experience a serious limb deformity. One American in five will be victim of a violent crime. A day in which nothing bad happens is a miracle, a day in which all the things that could have gone wrong didn't. The dull day is a triumph of the human spirit, and boredom is a luxury unprecedented in the history of our species.
--Douglas Coupland, "All Families Are Psychotic"

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Legalese of the Moment
Hee. Memepool linked to proper usage of the Photoshop trademark. I love how all the "correct" examples use like twice as many words as the incorrect versions, and how Adobe is fighting a losing war against "photoshop" becoming a verb. (I think they're a bit safer in their struggle to stop it from becoming a synonym for "digital image", though they have another tough road to hoe to get people to add in "Adobe" beforehand.)

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