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		<title>Environmental Justice &amp; Health Equity: What is our role as family docs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Friends! Join our amazing residents as we lead a tour of our community along with talented leaders from environmental justice organizations in Los Angeles!
Register at the AMSA National Conference or by contacting our chiefs &#8220;Harbor FM Chiefs&#8221; &#60;harborfmchiefs@gmail.com&#62;,
Saturday, March 13, 10:30 am &#8211; 1:30 pm
Off-site
Environmental Justice on the Streets: A Tour of South Central [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=89</link>
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		<title>The Buzz at Booth 628</title>
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From knee-high pink stockings and spandex to Michael Jackson’s famous white glove, the atmosphere was vibrant and ebullient at the massive downtown Kansas City Convention Center. Add to the mix The Spazmatics, an 80’s cover band, and what you’ve got is one serious tribute to all things 80’s. Welcome to the first day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=82</link>
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		<title>What can you do with a bike and a burrito?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesdays, nothing real special about the day when you work 80 hours a week as an intern. There is no real beginning nor end to our work, so the notion of a hump day defining a midpoint between weekends seems quaint. After last week, I now look forward to Wednesday for a whole new reason: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=80</link>
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		<title>Town Hall Meeting with Congressman Adam Schiff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Alhambra, CA
Town Hall Meeting &#8211; Congressman Adam Schiff
Given our commitment to vulnerable and underserved populations, it was no surprise to see Harbor Family Med residents and faculty making public our mandate for health reform. A seething, volatile crowd of thousands listened intently to the panel where Rep. Adam Schiff and others discussed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=78</link>
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		<title>The Spiriva Guy &amp; PharmFree Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been to Primary Care Lecture recently, you may have noticed a tall, dapper gentleman standing in front of the spread of Charro Chicken &#8211; that&#8217;s the Spiriva guy, a frequent guest by the medicine department to provide food during Primary Care Lecture. They organize Primary Care Lecture Series during the 2nd half of the year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Get Sick in July?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you happen to get sick this summer in Southern California and you wind up at my hospital, you can expect to find a gaggle of eager, intelligent, competent and caring new, young doctors (we like to call them &#8216;interns&#8217;) ready to listen intently to your story, as well as your heart and lungs of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=59</link>
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		<title>Individuals Can Still Make A Difference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reflecting back on the summer months of 2007, it brings back warm feelings of a cramped high school classroom swarming with high school teenagers, undergraduates, medical students, residents and hundreds of nats.  This past summer I had the wonderful opportunity to give back to a “Summer Project” that inspired me to become a family [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=58</link>
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		<title>Baby Catching 101&#8230;Lesson #1 &amp; 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently flash-backed to the first day I found out my intern schedule.  The emotions I felt made my whole stomach turn&#8230;I was to start on the California Hospital OB rotation!  (or how I like to call the hospital &#8211; The baby delivering capital of the world!)  You see, Cal OB recently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=57</link>
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		<title>Todos Somos Marcos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last 13 years, the Zapatista movement of the indigenous people of Chiapas has attained global recognition as a preeminent people’s movement for open and representative government, basic human rights and respect for the Earth and all its people. While many know the story, few have experienced first-hand their daily struggle to survive in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=53</link>
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		<title>Do you &#8216;ear&#8217; me?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As hard as it is to tear my thoughts away from the fantastic cultural journey I’m on, I think I owe it to myself to discuss the reason I am/we are here: to provide medical care to the people of Altamirano, Chiapas.
The pathology and variety of disease seen out here in rural Mexico is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=52</link>
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		<title>neighbors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my first journal entry and first blog post from Chiapas, Mexico. Today is September 4, 2007. These thoughts were written en route from Los Angeles to Mexico City, the first leg of my journey but were realized today when we arrived in Altamirano, site of Hospital San Carlos and our home for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=51</link>
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		<title>Part 2: Representin’ at the AAFP conference, Kansas City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to make Casey happy? Then ask me to travel to a great city with my friends (and colleagues) to talk on and on about a job and place I love. Just look at how much fun we had.
Join us next year!





Harbor Family Medicine heads to Kansas City!


Only one thing can beat that, and that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Representin&#8217; at the AAFP conference, Kansas City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah.  We&#8217;re here!  5 residents from our program (Jose, Suganya, Casey, Eva, and myself) arrived in Kansas City, Missouri today for the annual American Academy of Family Practice (AAFP) National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students.  We&#8217;re accompanied by our wonderful program director, Dr. Castro, and our associate program director, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=49</link>
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		<title>kicking my oil addiction</title>
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my car smells like french fries &#8212; badly burnt french fries
Exciting stuff, friends. My little baby &#8220;Yelley Elley&#8221;, my sunny yellow new-old diesel 240D Mercedes Benz, has made the leap off the grid. Just last week I started filling up with biodiesel. Straight out the pump, can you believe it?
 
What is  biodiesel, exactly? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=46</link>
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		<title>from the desk of the Resident Clinic Director &#8211; improving patient care and diabetes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all. No, not another anti-Pharm diatribe from me. This one is a clinical diabetes case from the Harbor-UCLA family medicine clinic:
You all know that a few of us family med residents have been involved in the diabetes chronic care collaborative with Drs. Snyder and Cheng. We&#8217;ve been trying to provide intensive and attentive care [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=45</link>
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		<title>Human Guinea Pigs &#8212; &#8220;standardized patients&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emily Yoffe describes in excruciating detail the adventures of serving as a standardized patient to medical students, to evaluate their physical exam skills. I remember the days of medical school when were evaluated in this way. It definitely was awkward, for both the medical students and the &#8220;patient&#8221;, but it was greatly appreciated. She shares [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=44</link>
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		<title>What Big Pharma knows about you and your patient&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the multi-billion dollar world of pharmaceutical sales, the pharmaceutical industry (with the go-ahead from the AMA) joins you and your patient in the examination room&#8230;
A [pharmaceutical] representative can quickly access a breakdown of pharmaceuticals prescribed by any physician on a handheld computer, enabling that representative to deliver a tailored marketing pitch to physicians selected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=43</link>
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		<title>The Ashtray of the South Bay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s so special about Redondo Beach?
Well, aside from its blue, breezy skies, its cute boutique shops and restaurants, and it being the beachside home to a number of our residents, Redondo Beach is the ONLY beach in LA County that is NOT SMOKE-FREE. For you visual learners, look here. Hermosa beach? Smoke-free. Santa Monica beach? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles youth &#8212; street poetry, creative change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;Young Gangsters&#8217; Special Weapon: Poetry&#8220;, LA Times, March 2007:
Use this time to tear up the old contracts, Henrikson told his young writers, who listened to him as if he were a guru. &#8220;People die never getting to know who they are,&#8221; he went on. He read them a Rumi poem, written in the 13th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=41</link>
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		<title>Clinic thoughts, Chiapas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[8/29/06  I am getting tired of eggs for breakfast and have gotten a box of bran flakes in town.  My teammates make (gentle) fun of me.  Consulta externa.  Giardia, otitis media, gingivitis, allergic rhinitis, probable fibroids.  On the inpatient service, a 33-year-old man with a heart the size of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harborfm.com/blog/?p=40</link>
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