Comments on: Rock Out With Your Gall Bladder Out

By: Gallbladder Problems

Gallbladder Problems — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:27:12 +0000

Longevity Science, thanks for some additional information.

I also like his playlist which includes David Bowie, Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Aimee Mann, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, the Decemberists and the Killers.

By: Stearypehep

Stearypehep — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:20:59 +0000

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By: Longevity Science

Longevity Science — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:52:33 +0000

Thank you for your interesting post! I thought perhaps you may find this related post about new article by Atul Gawande interesting to you: Longevity Science: The Way We Age http://longevity-science.blogspot.com/2007/04/way-we-age.html

By: Asha's dad

Asha's dad — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:36:00 +0000

Chick Pea,

Oden definitely looks older than stated age, but he all his physical features seem normal. I haven't gotten a look at his hands or feet to see if they're spade shaped, but they appear normal. He doesn't look like Andre the Giant, Jaws from the James Bond films, or George Mureson (all famous people with acromegaly). Oden just seems like he's 18 going on 35. He just seems so beaten down, like he's got 3 kids at home with a 4th on the way and two mortgage payments.

Contrast Oden with Kevin Durant, the baby faced assassin from the Longhorns.

White people from the suburbs give their kids last names for their first names, like Walker, Taylor, Hunter, Chase, Reese, Madison, or Kaitlen

By: ana

ana — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:14:24 +0000

        "I don't know, but in this article, written during residency, he calls his wife "high maintenance". 

          http://www.slate.com/id/3729/entry/24692/

Aha! Dr. Gawande is not perfect afterall! He’s named is kid “Walker”. Why do people name their kids Walker, Taylor, Hunter….?!!!

By: sparky

sparky — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:19:26 +0000

man, the way that article makes it sound, he just went to (harvard) medical school because he wasn’t good at anything else. and then started writing for slate on a whim. -_-

i do enjoy his writing (though i find it almost too detached and “clinical” at times…) though sometimes i find super accomplished people like him unnerving rather than inspiring. only sometimes though!

the ny times also featured another harvard doc-slash-new yorker writer this week with a new book out…no desi connection, but might be interesting to the gawande fans out there.:p

p.s. not that it matters, but complications came out a few years ago, not last year.

By: desishiksa

desishiksa — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:14:30 +0000

Not trying to bash him (I think he’s great too), but how much time does he get to spend with his family? Too many of these high-output guys — Rushdie, Tharoor, Verghese, etc. — end up divorced.

I don’t know, but in this article, written during residency, he calls his wife “high maintenance”.
http://www.slate.com/id/3729/entry/24692/

As someone who is married to a surgeon, I think being low maintenance is pretty much a prerequisite for staying married to someone in that profession. Maybe he just means she likes to spend his money.

By: coffeescoop

coffeescoop — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:27:28 +0000

“What Atul says is novel mainly to those outside of the field. No genius in that.”

Sure — but he explains medicine to the layperson and in that there is genius.

Yes, chickpea, I know he is married with kids. Did you really have to remind me?

By: siddhartha

siddhartha — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:06:23 +0000

Your title cracked me up Siddhartha.

Thank you

By: ashvin

ashvin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:51:34 +0000

Your title cracked me up Siddhartha.