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		<title>Happy Medic: I have a question for you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Mary Roach&#8217;s hilarious book Bonk, there are apparently quite a few cock-ring emergencies in San Francisco. She is discussing the theory of constricting venous return and the evolution of erector rings, and then in the footnote, she unexpectedly &#8230; <a href="http://burnedoutmedic.com/2010/09/happy-medic-i-have-a-question-for-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>There is Power in a Union by Philip Dray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed a book review somewhere and this one, There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America, by historian Philip Dray, looks interesting. Funny timing too, since for months around here we&#8217;ve been getting both &#8230; <a href="http://burnedoutmedic.com/2010/09/there-is-power-in-a-union-by-philip-dray/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise &#8211; Slater and JetBlue part ways</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Steven Slater no longer works for JetBlue. No one saw that coming. For those of you who missed this piece of news &#8211; and there are probably very few of you who missed it &#8211; Slater is the flight &#8230; <a href="http://burnedoutmedic.com/2010/09/surprise-slater-and-jetblue-part-ways/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nil bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drunk guy. Quite obvious he&#8217;s patronized us several times before. &#8220;Hey man, I don&#8217;t want no ambulance bill! Last time they sent me a bill. I don&#8217;t want another bill for the ambulance! I don&#8217;t wanna pay for this!&#8221; &#8220;Did &#8230; <a href="http://burnedoutmedic.com/2010/09/nil-bill/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hot chocolate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t think of a cute title, but I figure that I&#8217;d probably never write anything about hot chocolate anyway. (Of course, I never thought I&#8217;d hear about someone calling 911 specifically for hot chocolate either.) Meet Mark Eskelsen, who &#8230; <a href="http://burnedoutmedic.com/2010/09/hot-chocolate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>There are enough traffic scofflaws already</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something interesting that Tom the 12-lead expert posted: a cath lab nurse, Yvonne B. Singletary, wrote about the ticket she received for not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign while en route to a cath lab &#8230; <a href="http://burnedoutmedic.com/2010/08/there-are-enough-traffic-scofflaws-already/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bad customer service example ***RESOLVED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not happy. If I ever provided this kind of customer service, I&#8217;d be in so much trouble. This is the tale of my United Airlines travel voucher and the time and effort wasted because of it after its &#8230; <a href="http://burnedoutmedic.com/2010/08/bad-customer-service-example/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>168 hours a week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I happened to glance at the paper the other day and noticed a letter written by a reader, responding in agreement to an earlier article, complaining about how in a certain city average public safety salaries were significantly higher than &#8230; <a href="http://burnedoutmedic.com/2010/08/168-hours-a-week/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to recommend a very interesting book to you. It&#8217;s titled Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) and it&#8217;s written by Tom Vanderbilt. To give you an idea of what &#8230; <a href="http://burnedoutmedic.com/2010/08/traffic-by-tom-vanderbilt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Oh jizz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out these 2 weirdos &#8211; Michael Kevin Lallana and Michael Wayne Edwards Jr &#8211; who were caught engaging in semen-related activities. I can see the words coming (bad pun) out of the women&#8217;s mouths (bad choice of words) already. &#8230; <a href="http://burnedoutmedic.com/2010/08/oh-jizz/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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