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		<title>#Premeded</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with similar Twitter chats, this will be an hour-long discussion about issues and questions related to pre-medical education as well as medical school and clinical practice every week. The day and time will be Wednesdays at 9 PM EST. Here are some ground rules: 1. At the beginning of the chat, please introduce yourself, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sospokesaroj.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5243835&#038;post=837&#038;subd=sospokesaroj&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I joined Facebook back in 2004, only months after the site was launched. The internet, though I didn&#8217;t realize it at a time, was still a very disconnected place. Social media was fundamentally in its infancy, with Facebook joining only a few other social networking sites (MySpace and Friendster come to mind). Twitter and many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sospokesaroj.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5243835&#038;post=830&#038;subd=sospokesaroj&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media as a Tool for Patient Empowerment in Developing Countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in India recently, I spent time with one of my relatives. While I was there, he came down with a minor cold, and walked to the doctor&#8217;s office just down the road. I stayed at home until he came back. When he did return, he had with him a packet of various [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sospokesaroj.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5243835&#038;post=806&#038;subd=sospokesaroj&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cost of The Flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the weather warms up, flowers start to bloom, and allergies kick in (sigh), it&#8217;s fair to say that the flu season is (pretty much) behind us. However, it&#8217;s important to understand the financial cost of each flu season. I got an email from someone at FrugalDad (http://frugaldad.com) with a link to an infographic that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sospokesaroj.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5243835&#038;post=803&#038;subd=sospokesaroj&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Early Puberty in Girls: What We Know and What The Government Has Done (Or Not)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you imagine puberty occurring at around the age of 6, or even younger? It&#8217;s happening. Puberty is the inevitable rite of passage that everyone will go through. There are changes in shape and mood, in appearance and outlook. Its onset at around age 10 or 11, and continuation into one&#8217;s mid-teens is considered normal, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sospokesaroj.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5243835&#038;post=787&#038;subd=sospokesaroj&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unsolicited and Unwarranted Emails: Privacy in the Internet Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sospokesaroj.wordpress.com/?p=781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not the most tech-savvy individual in the world (most of my close friends know this all too well) but I know enough to know how to handle the Internet, especially when it comes to privacy. Rarely do I sign up for anything, and if I am forced to, I use one of several [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sospokesaroj.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5243835&#038;post=781&#038;subd=sospokesaroj&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Brother&#8217;s Entry to Penn Masala&#8217;s Remix Competition</title>
		<link>http://sospokesaroj.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/my-brothers-entry-to-penn-masalas-remix-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sospokesaroj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edit: My brother won! Thanks for your support! Hey everyone! I know I haven&#8217;t been terribly active here, and I do apologize. Life has a funny way of taking unexpected turns, both new and exciting (but oftentimes time-consuming!) so blogging has taken a backseat for now. However, I really wanted to plug my brother&#8217;s work. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sospokesaroj.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5243835&#038;post=761&#038;subd=sospokesaroj&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten years later&#8230;where do we stand?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like I&#8217;ve written or told this story a hundred times before. I&#8217;m not even sure if it made out into some tangible form, or if I replayed the events in my head from time to time over the last decade. Every passing September makes my heart ache. I was thankfully not directly affected [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sospokesaroj.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5243835&#038;post=751&#038;subd=sospokesaroj&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What should we do?  How should we react?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 01:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sospokesaroj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is probably the umpteenth article about how to handle the news of Osama bin Laden&#8217;s death, but it comes with my own experiences and perspectives on the matter. My apologies, but I do hope it does bring something new to the discussion. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- The rumors about bin Laden&#8217;s death came to my attention while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sospokesaroj.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5243835&#038;post=742&#038;subd=sospokesaroj&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Osama is dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 03:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost ten years ago, I watched the towers fall. I watched my idyllic vision of the world crumble amidst the rubble and twisted metal frame. Almost ten years after the Twin Towers fell, Osama Bin Laden has finally been killed. At the time that I&#8217;m writing this, details are few and far between. What is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sospokesaroj.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5243835&#038;post=738&#038;subd=sospokesaroj&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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