Oops

I write a post called "blogging kills" and then I forget to blog for a week!  Ha.  Anyway, no blogging because not much to say.  I finished a script today that I've been playing around with, a half-hour medical comedy-ish thing.  My intention, very generally, was to see what would happen if I set out to create a character sort of like the Anonymous Doctor version of Anonymous Lawyer, but while writing it I realized while imperfect lawyers are potentially funny and not necessarily inherently unlikeable, imperfect doctors kill people, and that makes them not so funny, and hurts their likeability just a bit.  So the idea morphed into something else, not sure I've cracked the code on it yet but am happy to have finished a draft I am reasonably happy with.

I read some books recently that I will blog about later this week.  Just figured I should post something, after reading the comment questioning if blogging in fact killed me.  It did not. 

Oh, here's something about crazy jelly bean flavors and something else about matzoh that I things to say about when I first read the article, but I'm not sure I do anymore.  Let me try anyway -- I think gefilte fish and borscht get a really bad rap in this article.  My grandma's gefilte fish is awesome.  And I like beets.

Comments

[Jen]

Phew!

[mmk080]

I like beets too. And I also echo Jen's sentiments... phew! indeed. We thought u dropped after u ... blogged...
I am sorry that last sentence was retarded. I dont know where I got that from. Some retarded article or something.

[Diana Barryu]

Jeremy,
Have you seen this video commenting on the alleged problems of 20-somethings nowadays?
It's a hoot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7SnQPBC6yM

[Jennifer]

Oh, are you trying to write Anonymous Doctor? My mom is a doctor. I had her read your book, Anonymous Lawyer, and she seemed to be able to relate to it - she loved the book, by the way. I think there is a lot of office politics that goes on as in AL (and in all offices, really).

One thing that's interesting is how more and more doctors are going into big corporations to practice. Okay, I don't know the exact details of how that works, but I'm thinking of Kaiser Permanente, how they sort of mass produce all these doctors and make the doctors see far too many patients than they should in a week (in the name of money).

Also, a lot of the doctors at KP graduated from really good schools - there has to be something interesting going on there. Medical school prestige may be a bigger issue now.

Where I live (may not be true in the mid-West), I've seen an increase in the number of female asian doctors with white husbands.. hmm..

Another thing is that there may be less of an official hierarchy at doctor's office than at law firms. I think it's because at hospitals, "underlings" like nurses, nurse practioners, and psychologists have graduate degrees. At law firms, paralegals don't. There's a lot of rivalry at hospitals, and doctors think/wish they are better and they often look down on the nurses and psychologists or whoever for complaining about not making enough money, because they were too lazy to go to medical school and get a real medical degree. There's a lot of cynicsm.

Imperfect doctors don't always kill people.. they just prescribe the wrong thing, or get suckered in by prescription drug companies to prescribe the wrong thing... or they make people go on wild goose hunts for the cure..

Oh, and I didn't want to mention this, because this is kind of something I feel is a pet project of mine (i.e., senior thesis), but in connection to the blogging kills theme, have you ever heard of Pro-Anorexia sites? Communities of individuals with (or claim to have) eating disorders who try to cope with their eating disorders and sometimes encourage not recovering? There's a big controversy over it because the French legislature is trying to shut down the sites and establish large fines for people who try to "incite" others to be excessively thin, especially through blogging.