Another of Life’s Wonderful Lessons Because It Is a Wonderful Life
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Dr. Ed
- Nov 14
- 3 min
What Empowered Patients Can Learn from the Car Repair Guy
When it comes to maintenance of our cars, we here in the Midwest take the annual winter checkup seriously. If the car does not start,...
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Dr. Ed
- Oct 31
- 4 min
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
- 3 min
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
- Sep 6
- 3 min
What is it about September?
"Life is difficult." That's the first line of Dr. Scott Peck's iconic book, The Road Less Traveled. From that point on, the reader was...
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Dr. Ed
- Aug 29
- 4 min
The Worst Moment of Your Life
Greg Norman was the number-one golfer in the world in 1998. He was flamboyant, he was charismatic, he was an athlete right out of central...
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Dr. Ed
- Aug 13
- 2 min
The Gift: A Moment in Time away from Gimmicks, Gadgets, and Digital Devices
The dogs and I went for an early-morning brisk walk on our customary route through a wooded area adjacent to our home. Usually, my mind...
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Dr. Ed
- Jul 5
- 5 min
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
- 3 min
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
- Jun 3
- 2 min
With the World in Chaos, Where Do We Find Solace?
Regardless of what we do for a living or where we live, to some extent we are all connected by the demons of our digital world. According...
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Dr. Ed
- May 20
- 3 min
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
- Apr 21
- 6 min
What keeps you up at night?
What do you fear? In your quiet moments. In ancient Rome, when the conquering generals would return to Rome following their victory in...
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Dr. Ed
- Apr 4
- 3 min
Which road are you taking?
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. At the risk of botching a...
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Dr. Ed
- Feb 25
- 3 min
Just When You Think the World Is Ending, a Kind Act Renews Our Faith in Humankind
The geopolitical chaos of the last several days in Ukraine may well be some of the most significant events of our lifetime as powerful as...
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Dr. Ed
- Feb 11
- 3 min
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
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
“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, 2021
- 4 min
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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