A Little Medical Snark
October 28th, 2004
Filed under: Medicine
“Doctor: Arafat Has Blood Platelet Deficiency” screams the CNN.com headline. Blood platelets? What other kinds of platelets are there? All platelets are blood platelets. That’s like saying someone has a “deficiency of blood red blood cells.” Sheesh!
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May 19th, 2011 at 8:54 am
I know I’m way back in the archives here (back what Arafat was alive), but I had just come across a music review the other day where the author said, “it was a soulful lullaby of a tune”. As opposed to a soulful lullaby of a basketball game.
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