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		<title>Birthdays, Bonds and Being Bowled Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Beyond Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birthday]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been one of the most raucous Junes yet. Tons of fun, including a 7-cake birthday celebration (almost a week long event, where I ended up cutting into seven cakes!), lot of letting the (proverbial) hair down, and fooling around in general. Life&#8217;s been good. This series of celebrations started with Jitendra sir&#8217;s birthday [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scepticemia.com&#038;blog=17567581&#038;post=3051&#038;subd=scepticemia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Make a wish...</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Posers!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Clean up your act, bro!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Food fight... the aftermath</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Posing with the cakes...</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Wish karo, Dish karo...</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The worst book to give a Grammar Nazi</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Menage a trois. Not really.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Gifts!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Go Open Access!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Eat that!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Crossing the Bar</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Blade runners!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Reckon I can stand on this?</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Sweet.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">What&#039;s with the epithet, man?</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Party Animals!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Look, mama, I&#039;m standing!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Big deal!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The cake that the mailman smashed</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Wrong spelling. On MY birthday cake. Sigh.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Before the apocalypse at an unlimited Buffet Lunch.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Tweedledee-Tweedledum</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Go green. Also, can you read anything?</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">7th time unlucky</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">After the apocalypse (Vikram Sir&#039;s treat)</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Still holding on</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Sweep me off my feet... literally</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The customary zapping before cutting the cake</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The clouds - a constant birthday presence</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">You got this all wring, mate!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Acting silly.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Perfect spelling and grammar</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Waiting for Food</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Sweet memory</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Stuff your face</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Before dinner... no after pics though.</media:title>
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		<title>Protected: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: A Public Health Challenge</title>
		<link>http://scepticemia.com/2013/06/15/emerging-and-reemerging-infectious-diseases-a-public-health-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://scepticemia.com/2013/06/15/emerging-and-reemerging-infectious-diseases-a-public-health-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[#MedEd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RATPISS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reemerging infectious diseases]]></category>

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		<title>Anti-Bloomberg Bill in the Soda Wars: Two Wrongs do not Make a Right!</title>
		<link>http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/24/anti-bloomberg-bill-in-the-soda-wars-two-wrongs-do-not-make-a-right/</link>
		<comments>http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/24/anti-bloomberg-bill-in-the-soda-wars-two-wrongs-do-not-make-a-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-bloomberg bill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[conflict of interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diabetes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portion size limitation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since posting my rant on the now age old debate about paternalism (or as the people over in USA are calling it: Nanny State) versus public health, I have been reading a lot more about the Soda wars and it emerges that now it is way more hotly debated than ever before. Following in the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scepticemia.com&#038;blog=17567581&#038;post=3031&#038;subd=scepticemia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Family Physician: A Dying Romantic Idea</title>
		<link>http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/23/the-family-physician-a-dying-romantic-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/23/the-family-physician-a-dying-romantic-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical Humanities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[general practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been known to lament the loss of the prestige of the basic medical degree (MBBS) in India. While you may or may not agree with it, the truth remains that nobody who is doing (or has recently done) an MBBS course wants to stay out at that level. Everyone wants to go and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scepticemia.com&#038;blog=17567581&#038;post=3018&#038;subd=scepticemia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>USMLE 2013 and IMGs: All That Glitters is NOT Gold</title>
		<link>http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/21/usmle-2013-and-imgs-all-that-glitters-is-not-gold/</link>
		<comments>http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/21/usmle-2013-and-imgs-all-that-glitters-is-not-gold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[#MedEd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have pretty much been declared the official (Indian) USMLE rumor-monger by one of the most famous USMLE coaching institutes that held introductory classes to tell the masses what USMLE was all about. Thank you sir, you made my day. Now, again, another disclaimer. The last time I wrote about the USMLE match (this one: [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scepticemia.com&#038;blog=17567581&#038;post=3008&#038;subd=scepticemia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post #1: India &#8211; One of the Fastest Growing Economies</title>
		<link>http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/19/guest-post-1-india-one-of-the-fastest-growing-economies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranab</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post written by Ms. Deepali Kaul. I have made slight grammatical and syntactical edits and otherwise, left it untouched. This article and its opinions and contents are not due to me, but to Ms. Kaul. Any links are not endorsements and are meant for informational purposes only. If you want to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scepticemia.com&#038;blog=17567581&#038;post=3000&#038;subd=scepticemia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New York Soda Rule: Raising the Debate on Paternalism in Public Health</title>
		<link>http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/18/new-york-soda-rule-raising-the-debate-on-paternalism-in-public-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paternalistic attitude in unilateral implementation of public health policies, especially with respect to banning of (harmful) substances, has been one of the issues that I have been debating not only with my colleagues, but also with my own self, for a while now. Aside from the obvious stake in the matter as a student of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scepticemia.com&#038;blog=17567581&#038;post=2995&#038;subd=scepticemia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Start-up Bites the Dust: Elsevier Buys Mendeley</title>
		<link>http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/10/another-start-up-bites-the-dust-elsevier-buys-mendeley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medcetera]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When TechCrunch reported that there were talks going on between Elsevier and Mendeley this January, I did not want to believe it. Being an ardent user and advocate of the platform, I wanted it to stay out of the clutches of Big Pub. But it is now official, Mendeley has been acqui-hired by Elsevier for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scepticemia.com&#038;blog=17567581&#038;post=2986&#038;subd=scepticemia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aaron Swartz&#8217;s Guerilla Open Access Manifesto</title>
		<link>http://scepticemia.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartzs-guerilla-open-access-manifesto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[#HCSM]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Largely credited to Aaron Swartz, this has also found an in depth criticism in Peter Suber’s now archived, Earlham.edu blog on Open Access. I am reproducing it, in memory of the deceased Swartz, as a reminder of the duty that befalls us all. Guerilla Open Access Manifesto Information is power. But like all power, there [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scepticemia.com&#038;blog=17567581&#038;post=2962&#038;subd=scepticemia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>#Anonymous Hack MIT Sites: In Memoriam, Aaron Swartz</title>
		<link>http://scepticemia.com/2013/01/14/anonymous-hack-mit-sites-in-memoriam-aaron-swartz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The online vigilante justice group, anonymous, has hit out at the MIT for the role they purportedly played in bringing about the demise of Aaron Swartz. They took down the Cogeneration Project page and another page which seems to not be loading now. They apologized for taking the Cogen project page down and launched the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scepticemia.com&#038;blog=17567581&#038;post=2961&#038;subd=scepticemia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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