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Dr. Ed
Sep 4, 20234 min read
What Is It about September?
Our primitive ancestors survived on the blistering savannas of Africa by recognizing the importance of rituals and routines. They...
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Dr. Ed
Mar 15, 20234 min read
Hello, Spring. Where Are You? A Short Essay on COVID and Clutter
Phil was right. The groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter, and he was right. For the last several months, we here in the upper...
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Dr. Ed
Jan 19, 20233 min read
Why Goldfish Have a Longer Attention Span than We Do
We live in a world of constant, unpredictable, intermittent inattention. We are bludgeoned and bombarded with a tsunami of digital...
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Dr. Ed
Jan 11, 20234 min read
Now, where did I put my glasses?
A common medical term is sequela. You pronounce it like this: seh-QWEL-uh. And it means the after-effects of a disease. In other words, a...
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Dr. Ed
Dec 21, 20223 min read
The Big Bank Heist
It’s easy to drown in a sea of nostalgia and remember the good old days, which in actual fact may not have been so good. However, the...
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Dr. Ed
Nov 29, 20224 min read
The Asteroid That Destroyed Healthcare as We Knew It
We humans survived on the grassy plains of East Africa millions of years ago by the power of community. The power of connectedness....
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Dr. Ed
Oct 31, 20224 min read
Where’s the Canary in the Healthcare Coal Mine?
Coal mining is a profoundly dangerous profession. Before there were federally mandated safety measures, these early pioneers were aware...
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Dr. Ed
Oct 3, 20223 min read
The race. The lesson.
The Twin Cities Marathon takes place annually typically in October and has been described as “America’s most beautiful urban marathon.”...
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Dr. Ed
Jul 5, 20225 min read
What Dorothy Said to Toto
In the 1939 iconic musical fantasy, Wizard of Oz, Dorothy cradles her little dog Toto when a tornado transports them from her home state...
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Dr. Ed
Jun 26, 20223 min read
What Our Prehistoric Ancestors Taught Us about Social Connection (and Why COVID Changed All That)
Let us turn back the clock several million years. We humans survived in small groups of families and clans. We sat around campfires, we...
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Dr. Ed
May 20, 20223 min read
In a Heartbeat, Life Unravels
Here in Lake Woebegone, spring has arrived. Flowers are blooming, grasses growing, farmers are plowing and planting, and we lovingly...
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Dr. Ed
Feb 11, 20223 min read
How do some people thrive in chaos?
A casual comment by a colleague came out of the blue: “I am just tired of the pandemic, tired of the political discourse, tired of this...
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Dr. Ed
Jan 10, 20224 min read
The Queen's Gambit and COVID: Checkmate
An international chess game is brewing as Russia has positioned more than 100,000 troops close to the border with Ukraine. Any further...
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Dr. Ed
Dec 27, 20214 min read
Like Rats in a Cage, Are We Witnessing the Collapse of the Healthcare System?
A classic laboratory experiment involving rodents goes something like this. These smart little caged rats quickly figure out if they...
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Dr. Ed
Dec 19, 20213 min read
Do I have to draw you a picture?
The virus variants affect us all, and our lives hang in the balance Growing up in the murky world of thoroughbred racing on the East...
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Dr. Ed
Dec 12, 20213 min read
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”
The most reprinted newspaper editorial in the English language appeared in the September 1897 New York Sun when eight-year-old Virginia...
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Dr. Ed
Dec 4, 20214 min read
Riding the COVID roller coaster. Have we reached the “Point of No Return”?
Our world plummeted down the rabbit hole of chaos in March 2020 when the nightmare of COVID disintegrated our daily lives. With the...
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Dr. Ed
Oct 5, 20213 min read
Lesson from the Tree Guys: Don't Get Killed
A brisk horizontal wind swept through our community in September. Not quite a tornado, but the winds toppled large trees, pulled down...
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Dr. Ed
Sep 22, 20213 min read
Real People, Not Just a Number
Would You Do This If You Thought You'd Get Cancer? Let us imagine a football stadium. We don’t have to imagine because on any given...
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Dr. Ed
Sep 7, 20212 min read
Not the Spam You Think
Some Divisions Never Heal (and Why We Need to Put Our Differences Aside Now) Austin, Minnesota, was, in the 1980s, a rural community...
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