Robin Williams talks about his aortic valve replacement: http://ping.fm/H9OHR (Thanks, to Dr. Wes at http://ping.fm/41AQU)

New favorite fountain pen, 77¢: http://ping.fm/keDdE

"We have contests in which we decide who is the most beautiful woman in the world... We should be able to have a World's Most Perfect Kidney contest." -- David Cronenberg, in Aphrodites of the Operating Theater: La Specola Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, BoingBoing. http://ping.fm/IS4Kd

Someone please prove me wrong: A table of the benefits of common medical therapies (aspirin, statins, etc.) DOESN'T EXIST.

Differential Diagnosis of Urine Color and Odor

Via the Primer on Kidney Diseases. (Love that text.)

Ben Franklin in the NYT Pursuit of Happiness Blog (http://ping.fm/pUvLu)