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		<title>The 3 month-old doctor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 02:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When most patients see a doctor in hospital, they assume she&#8217;s been practicing for years. No one thinks the doctor might only be 3 months old. And when some nurses with decades of experience see a new doctor, they assume the doctor knows more than he really does and more than they do &#8211; despite knowing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11267809&amp;post=4393&amp;subd=humanbehaviorblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top Posts 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com/?p=4368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I started this blog in 2006 under the same name &#8211; human behavior &#8211; but under a different URL: americaninoz.wordpress.com. Back then it was truer in form to a &#8216;blog&#8217; as I tended to reflect on current events, so posts were best read when current. It was also truer to the URL, as it focused [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11267809&amp;post=4368&amp;subd=humanbehaviorblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art Break: Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother spent her birthday here in Sydney and her present this year was something I knew she&#8217;d love: a painting of her house in Virginia. The house is our first house after decades of apartment life, and the only home her grandchildren have ever known. I was even married in the house, on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11267809&amp;post=4318&amp;subd=humanbehaviorblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last days</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>humanb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race & Ethnicity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Expatriate Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After five long years, yesterday was the last day of medical school. And today is just a Thursday. It was all rather anticlimactic in the end. I spent five years socially unhappy as a black American in her 30&#8242;s among a cohort of Australian fresh-out-of-high-schoolers. I was sick of school before I even started the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11267809&amp;post=4308&amp;subd=humanbehaviorblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When doctors cry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>humanb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To wrap up my medical education, I&#8217;m spending six weeks as a pre-intern working in the geriatrics ward of a Sydney hospital. I had already done a geriatrics rotation, but I love caring for the elderly, so I wanted to do another. Instead of choosing the brilliant male geriatrician under whom I had studied before, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11267809&amp;post=4278&amp;subd=humanbehaviorblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WTF has Obama Done So Far?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[American Culture & Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever your opinion of Obama, let it be based in fact. Here&#8217;s what he&#8217;s done &#8211; presented as briefly and as simply as possible: What the Fuck has Obama Done So Far? Filed under: American Culture &#38; Politics<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11267809&amp;post=4280&amp;subd=humanbehaviorblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When TV dies</title>
		<link>http://humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/when-tv-dies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around midday on Sunday a storm hit Sydney Harbour. The lightning struck so loudly at one point that I was sure something close by had been hit. It had. Bye, bye shiny, flat-screen, surround-sound, gazillion-inch TV. Bye bye. I wasn&#8217;t too upset by it. It&#8217;s under warranty. And gone are the days of childhood when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11267809&amp;post=4188&amp;subd=humanbehaviorblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sydney Halloween</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>humanb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Impressions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Expatriate Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always had a special fondness for Halloween &#8211; in part because the holiday occurs in October, the month I was born. For the egocentric child in me (now gone), I looked on the month of October with great excitement because my birthday was coming. And for the sugar-obsessed child in me (who lives on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11267809&amp;post=4205&amp;subd=humanbehaviorblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art Break: &#8216;To Do&#8217; List</title>
		<link>http://humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/art-break-to-do-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>humanb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trompe l'oeil]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com/?p=4190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love coincidences. I know I&#8217;m supposed to shrug them off as random concurrent events &#8211; like rational people do &#8211; but I prefer to give them meaning. I choose to live in a world with unseen forces. Today I received an email notification about a new blog post from a dear friend. She&#8217;s a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11267809&amp;post=4190&amp;subd=humanbehaviorblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baptism by fire</title>
		<link>http://humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/baptism-by-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>humanb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every culture has its ritual for young boys and girls. In black America, there was once a rite of initiation into the world of mainstream beauty. And it didn&#8217;t involve training bras or lipstick. It involved a red-hot stove and a cast-iron comb. I found this little piece of my childhood in one of my memory [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanbehaviorblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11267809&amp;post=4157&amp;subd=humanbehaviorblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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