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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Nobel: The View of an Insider</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nobel Peace Prize, the most highly regarded of global recognitions, is frequently controversial. The surprise designation of President Barack Obama as a Nobel recipient was greeted in the American media with ambivalence and even disdain. Some commentators suggested that being in office a mere nine months did not allow for an imprint on global [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&blog=4611187&post=174&subd=bernardlown&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Wiring of Racism in the USA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Racial discrimination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Election of a first black President evoked much wishful thinking that the US had entered a post-racial era.  It took 45 years after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act, but at last we had arrived, if not to the promised land, at least to a more equitable social order. The arrest of the distinguished [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&blog=4611187&post=165&subd=bernardlown&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doctor both to patients and to the World</title>
		<link>http://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/doctor-both-to-patients-and-to-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commencement address]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commencement Address
Bernard Lown, MD
University of New England College Osteopathic Medicine
Portland, Maine
June 06, 2009
My task this morning is simple:  to congratulate you, to share with you a singular thought or two,  to challenge you and hopefully not burden you with soaring rhetoric and tired platitudes.  These orations are supposed to be short, uplifting,  and instantly forgettable. Long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&blog=4611187&post=152&subd=bernardlown&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medical technology—A deadly encounter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD
I first met Ed K. after he died, or so I was certain. Therein began an experience the ending of which was as bizarre as its beginning. 
A dreary winter afternoon was dragging on endlessly. I was interpreting electrocardiograms for the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital where I was a postdoctoral trainee with the renowned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&blog=4611187&post=129&subd=bernardlown&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on a Defibrillator in Every Household*</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumerism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cardiac arrest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD
Our newspaper of record, the Boston Globe, headlines on its front page, “FDA approves sales of home defibrillators”(09-17-04) The article explains the reason given for FDA approval, “that the average person can safely operate the machines. When used appropriately, defibrillators can dramatically improve a patient&#8217;s prospects for survival.” Both statements are true. Any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&blog=4611187&post=108&subd=bernardlown&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Salt: Culprit or the Stuff of Life?*</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blood pressure]]></category>
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Bernard Lown, MD
Adhering to a healthy life style requires understanding some basic facts of biology and nutrition. In this age of market medicine we are constantly bombarded with products that we do not need but persuaded that we can not live without. An effective defense against such hype is to be guided by sound information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&blog=4611187&post=101&subd=bernardlown&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of Pain Beyond the Power of Healing*</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Casualties of War and Militarism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[loss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD
Whenever I read of an Iraqi war veteran’s suicide or of a soldier afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder, I feel a frisson of anguish. My emotional reaction may be due to the many Holocaust victims whom I have doctored. They have taught me that some remembrances of pain and savagery are so deep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&blog=4611187&post=98&subd=bernardlown&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time Spent with Patients a Critical Factor in the National Health Crisis*</title>
		<link>http://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/time-spent-with-patients-a-critical-factor-in-the-national-health-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD 
That we have a dysfunctional health care system is now widely acknowledged. No longer does one hear that Americans receive the best medical care in the world. Moreover, the US crisis in health is noteworthy for a blatant contradiction. Despite our investing a king&#8217;s ransom on health care, one-third of the population is inadequately protected against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&blog=4611187&post=84&subd=bernardlown&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conspiracy and the Corporate State</title>
		<link>http://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/conspiracy-and-the-corporate-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD
I never cottoned to conspiracy theories of history. Yet throughout my long life  I was nearly overwhelmed by their seduction, by their connecting of puzzling dots in the flow of political events, by their seeming logic in accounting for the inexplicable and by their simplicity in forging through the quagmire of life’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&blog=4611187&post=64&subd=bernardlown&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Doctor as a Placebo*</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD
We are living in a paradoxical age. From medicine we expect miracles; from doctors, brush-offs. Physicians, no longer revered figures, communicate less and less with their patients. History gathering is hurried and frustrating, and even these precious minutes are misspent. Instead of focusing on the patient, the doctor peruses electronic records. Frequently, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&blog=4611187&post=46&subd=bernardlown&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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