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		<title>Enormity of US Military impedes nuclear abolition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ (Essay 27) Bernard Lown, MD Among antinuclear activists there is a sense of jubilant expectation that at last a demonic class of genocidal weapons will soon be consigned to the junk heap of history. Left behind will be a shudder &#8230; <a href="http://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/enormity-of-us-military-impedes-nuclear-abolition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4611187&amp;post=357&amp;subd=bernardlown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wives, Yes; Husbands, No (Essay 26)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD The above title, instead of enlightening, mystifies. Is this some sort of reverse sexism or political correctness gone awry? Actually, it reflects a deep clinical truth that took me years to fathom. Wives know more about their &#8230; <a href="http://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/wives-yes-husbands-no/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4611187&amp;post=346&amp;subd=bernardlown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black Blood Must Not Contaminate White Folks (Essay 25)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 01:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD In the mid-20th century the Johns Hopkins Medical School was at the apogee for training doctors in the US. My matriculating there was a fluke. Every other medical school I had applied to rejected me. It was &#8230; <a href="http://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/black-blood-must-not-contaminate-white-folks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4611187&amp;post=340&amp;subd=bernardlown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Media: Unending Frustration (Part III) (Essay 24)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD If transformed into a Martian, I would be in utter awe of the power of the US media to shape global opinion. At no time was this more evident than during the Cold War, when the US, &#8230; <a href="http://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/us-media-unending-frustration-part-iii-essay-24/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4611187&amp;post=331&amp;subd=bernardlown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sudden Cardiac Death: Resuscitation or Resurrection? (Essay 23)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD In early January 2011 my son, Fred, drove me to the Brigham and Women’s Hospital emergency ward for a recurrent intestinal obstruction. The streets from our upscale suburban home are full of potholes. For the first time &#8230; <a href="http://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/sudden-cardiac-death-resuscitation-or-resurrection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4611187&amp;post=309&amp;subd=bernardlown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ivan Pavlov is alive and well, though forgotten (Essay 22)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 15:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD Clinicians soon learn that many of the problems they confront derive from the rough and tumble of living. This was true for me as well, a cardiologist with a global referral practice. Psychological problems were commonly in &#8230; <a href="http://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/ivan-pavlov-is-alive-and-well-though-forgotten-essay-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4611187&amp;post=277&amp;subd=bernardlown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Supreme Court Justice in the Examining Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD My admiration for the Supreme Court dates to the Roosevelt era. The majesty of law then seemed dazzling. Dominated by four judicial giants &#8212; Hugo Black, William Douglas, Robert Jackson, and Frank Murphy &#8212; the court had &#8230; <a href="http://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/a-supreme-court-justice-in-the-examining-room/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4611187&amp;post=271&amp;subd=bernardlown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Troubled Patient</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD Doctors pride themselves on practicing evidence-based medicine. That is the simplest part of it. Far more difficult is practicing personalized medicine. Still more difficult is engaging in a practice that bonds two human beings. The proof of &#8230; <a href="http://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/a-troubled-patient/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4611187&amp;post=263&amp;subd=bernardlown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Chair to the Rescue*</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD Not so long ago, doctors bled, purged, cupped, and performed all sorts of mayhem to cure diseases about which they had not a clue. With the advent of scientific medicine in the late 19th and early 20th &#8230; <a href="http://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/a-chair-to-the-rescue/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4611187&amp;post=247&amp;subd=bernardlown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thumpversion for the Tasered*</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Lown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD For several years I have been in a quandary about writing this article. Silence when innocent people are being killed is a moral dereliction. But intervention is also an ethical failure if it may encourage an offensive &#8230; <a href="http://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/thumpversion-for-the-tasered/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bernardlown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4611187&amp;post=240&amp;subd=bernardlown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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