Breadcrumbs in a cake? I’d never head of such a thing. But I had a few leftover baguette crusts in my freezer, and the memory of an amazing cake I’d made a few years back from this wonderful little vintage cookbook, Favorite Tortes and Cake Recipes by Rose Oller Harbaugh and… Read full post »

By now, you’ve heard that Susan G Komen For the Cure, which at first announced that it would withdraw its funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening programs, now appears to (but may not actually) have reversed that decision after an enormous public outcry.

Komen is n… Read full post »

It’s one of my favorite things to do in New York. Dinner and a play.  It’s also among the most challenging combination of activities in the Big Apple to pull off well.

So much can go wrong - not having a reservation and spending a half hour wandering Restaurant Row with the… Read full post »

You’ve heard by now that Pfizer has recalled about a million birth control pills due to concerns the the hormone dosing and pill order in the packs could be wrong. This could affect the pills efficacy, exposing women to unplanned pregnancy.  There are no concerns beyond this about safet… Read full post »

Sometimes it’s fun to act like a tourist and see your home through fresh eyes. That’s what we did yesterday, when we joined a Manhattan Walking Tour of the West Village that had tempted us with a great low-price offer on Gilt City.  Blessed with unseasonably warm weather, the comp… Read full post »

Thanks DV for the wonderful Ardith Mae Goat Feta you brought me today at the Union Square Green Market after you found my blog and realized that I was a fellow foodie.  I had it for lunch and it was the best feta I’ve tasted to date. Not salty like/… Read full post »

It’s a question I’m often asked by my patients after they learn that they not only have an abnormal Pap, but a sexually transmitted infection – Human Papilloma Virus.  Are they obligated to tell their current or future potential sexual partners that they have HPV?

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If this is what you see out your bedroom window when you wake up -

This is what you have for lunch.

Sausage, Kale and Potato Soup with Fig Compote

I don’t know if I’m gilding the lily with the compote or not, but whenever I see sausages I… Read full post »

When I find out, I’m gonna’ be so mad….

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The Problem : Lost Face Time = Lost Joy

One day, about 5 years into using the electronic medical record in my practice, I came to the realization that I wasn’t having fun anymore. I was sitting throughout most of every office encounter facing a computer screen, my back to the patient… Read full post »

Results from the Kentucky Ovarian Cancer Screening Study at first glance look incredibly promising.  Among the over 37 thousand women who underwent annual pelvic sonograms, the 5-year survival rate for all women with ovarian cancer in the screened group was 75% compared with 54% for unscreened women…

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As a result of mandatory work hour restrictions, residency programs have moved from the traditional call schedule, where they worked up to 36 hours at a time, to a night float system with distinct day and nightime shifts similar to the ones nurses have worked for years. While no work restrictions…

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It hasn’t been easy. I’ve been married for almost a quarter century to a man who eats whatever he wants and is still the same weight he was in high school. That means having to sit next to him at Sunday morning breakfast watching him sop up the yolks of his…

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ONCE UPON  TIME… Before Facebook and Twitter and Google+, and long before the word “social media†became religion, something called the Medical Blogging made its appearance on the world-wide web. In those days, there was a small, close-knit community of medical bloggers, who read and comme…

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Asking a blogger to pick her top posts of the year is like asking a mom which of her children she loves best. Because I love them all. Finding out which posts you love most is not possible – my stat counter only reports details on the last few days. So I…

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                      I came across this compelling little dyad in a pop-up gallery on 57th St on New Year’s Eve.  Artist Kristian Glynn compares his own financial status –  ”Empty”  to that of his surgeon girlfriend �…

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A New Year calls for a new Grand Rounds.  Let’s see if we can move this blogger-era dinosaur into the new era of social media by integrating it more fully into Twitter. Submit your post to tbtam@rcn.com by 11:59 pm on Jan 1. Include your twitter @profile name and a shortened…

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In this week’s episode of Teen Mom 2, Kailyn heads to her gynecologist for birth control and leaves with a Mirena IUD in her uterus. The entire encounter, obviously edited, ran more like a commercial for Mirena than a contraceptive counseling session. Other contraceptives were mentioned generic…

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Sing along,now, everyone -

“It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank…”

Best Christmas song ever.

Can’t believe I just now discovered it, thanks to Boerewar’s Emergency Medicine Chronicles. (He’s got a very funny video cover and all the lyrics there. ) The Tele… Read full post »

The wonderful thing about braised meat is that it literally cooks itself. The not-so-wonderful thing is that you need to plan ahead for the pr0longed cook time, especially if there is also a pre-braising marinade.

Which means that if you decide at 10 am to make marinated braised short ribs… Read full post »

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This latke recipe was good enough in 2007  to garner my blog a mention in the New York Times.

Secrets of the latke masters. Happy Hannukah. [The Blog That Ate Manhattan]

I figure that makes it good enough to re-post today.  Happy Hanukkah!

Potato Latkes

3 pounds potatoes (I use… Read full post »

It’s bad enough that the federal government is preventing younger teens from getting easier access to the morning after pill.

Now we find out that older teens, who by current law should be able to buy ECP’s without a prescriptin, are being told by pharmacies that they can’t either.Â… Read full post »

New York has been my home now for 18 years, but it feels even more like home now that my old buds from Philly have moved here too. Add in a sister and her daughter visiting for the weekend and dinner becomes a truly sweet repast. Make it it all… Read full post »