I have noticed this phenomenon many times...you hear a word or hear about something that you have never heard of before...and then within a day or two you hear it again. I always wonder how that could be...I mean I'm 45 years old. I read a ton, so you would think this would be an unusual occurence.
Last night I started reading Elizabeth Edwards' Saving Graces in anticipation of Elizabeth Edwards' book-signing next week at Quail Ridge Books. In the first chapter (which is as far as I got before I fell asleep at the unusual hour of 9:30...not a comment on the interest of the book, but on the busyness of my day!) Edwards talks about finding the lump in her breast near the end of the Kerry-Edwards campaign, just days before the election. She mentioned that she called her physician in Raleigh, Dr. Wells Edmundson.
We live near Raleigh and I had not heard of Dr. Edmundson. This is not unusual because although Raleigh and my town of Fuquay Varina, are somewhat small towns/cities and the small world-ness of it is apparent every day, there is a huge medical community here because of the fine hospitals and the medical schools at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill.
This morning I was reading the newspaper, The News & Observer, which I try to do every morning before getting the kids off to school. There was a letter to the editor in response to a prior letter that claimed that "physicians are trying to hurt or restrict flu shots." It was an interesting letter which explained that most physicians do not make money on flu shots, consider them one part of an overall medical relationship with their patients and can't compete with the drug stores and grocery stores who are giving flu shots to anyone who wants one regardless of their overall health, risk factors, etc.
One of the two doctors who signed the letter? Dr. Wells Edmundson...I wonder if he's on my plan???
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