Plain Dealer Reader Representative Ted Diadiun kicked off his series of weekly chats today on cleveland.com. Among the topics Ted addressed in his initial chat included:

• Is there a conservative or liberal bias at The Plain Dealer?

• Why is there so little space for comics in the paper?

• Can you address the Muslim community concerns about their portrayal in the paper as voiced in the protest at The Plain Dealer last week

• What happened with Dick Feagler's last column in the print edition?

... plus much more!

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Next chat: Monday at 11 a.m.

Izzy of Undisclosed Location has just become a board-certified family physician:

There are so many moments during my days now when I see glimpses of my family and friends through the patients I treat. I see it in a way they might look at me. I see it in all the worries, all the problems, all the joys and the sadness. It makes me want to learn more and make sure I know all the answers, make sure I know just the right things to say to make things better - even though sometimes I know that's impossible. It breaks my heart that for some of them all I can do is stand near and put a caring arm around them.

It's become all too frequent now the times when I'll think about a patient I saw a day or so earlier and wonder if there was something I missed or a different diagnosis I should have thought of. I want to answer all my messages quickly and return those phone calls that are requested by family members after seeing their loved ones in the office. All of this makes most of my days last about two or three hours longer than what they are scheduled but I know that I have to do it. I would hope that the person seeing my dad or my mom would do the same for them.

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