{"id":3495,"date":"2009-02-22T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T16:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2009-02-22T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T16:46:51","slug":"a-very-special-episode-of-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-very-special-episode-of-house","title":{"rendered":"A Very Special Episode of House"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t give his name (medical privacy) and all, but there’s a great article<\/a> in the NYTimes Magazine this weekend about Nathanael Sandstrom<\/a>, the guy I asked you to donate platelets for. I use “great” because it’s all about how his doctors finally figured out what he was suffering from and started him on the road to recovery!<\/p>\n

The story really comes off like an episode of House<\/em>, except without the mean-spirited doc at the center of it. Oh, and no Omar Epps, either. Still, give it a read<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t give his name (medical privacy) and all, but there’s a great article in the NYTimes Magazine this weekend about Nathanael Sandstrom, the guy I asked you to donate platelets for. I use “great” because it’s all about how his doctors finally figured out what he was suffering from and started him on the … <\/p>\n

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