Musings of a Distractible Mind
Thoughts of an odd, but not harmful primary care physician.
People ask me lots of questions, some good and some not so good. Is this illness I caught contagious? (How would you have gotten it otherwise?) Is this medicine going to destroy my liver? (Yes, your wife paid me lots of money to bump you off) What do you think about the odd pattern on my [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.One of my favorite series of posts I did on my old blog was a run-down of the physical exam. Some might say I ran down the physical exam as one might run down a pedestrian, I suppose, but it was a fun series to write. If you didn’t get the chance to read it [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.I got this in my email today from “Living Social.” When I first read it, I thought it said, “Your mother always reminded you to wash your behind…”, which makes sense, given the advertising subject material. I haven’t read the remainder of the deal, so we can only guess what the last sentence reads: “Pay $39 to [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.OK, so I’ve done this thing called Ask Dr. Rob, in which I answer questions that my readers have regarding health, tacos, webkins, fetuses driving speed boats, the end times, baby spit, the dangers of kumquats, and other crucial issues. But there is a big problem: nobody ever asks me questions anymore. So I asked myself: why [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.So I thought I would bring you joy on this Friday in one of the best ways I can think of: goats. Nothing brings more joy to the heart of man than goats. Well, maybe cheese puffs bring more joy, but goats are second only to cheese puffs. It’s a close call, really. But before [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.One of the rock solid things in life has always been the neutrality of Switzerland. I go to bed much easier at night knowing that at least there is one place where war is not the solution to problems. This has changed in a very saddening way: Swiss accidentally invade Liechtenstein Fri Mar 2, 10:01 [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.Dear American Academy of Pediatrics: I think there is a mistake. Kids started coming into the office recently with forms for sports physicals, and the form is different. See Below: Someone added stuff to the form! Not only do we have to continue the inexplicable obsession with the hernia check (for maximum humiliation of boys, [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.It’s time we get away from all of that serious nonsense, and back to something I am far more comfortable with: taking otherwise useful information and twisting it into utter nonsense. Yes, it’s time to journey back to the wonderful world of the physical exam. My ongoing mission is to explore the human body from [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.It’s been a very long time since I did an Ask Dr. Rob post. It’s also been a long time since I shot a spitball out of a straw and hit someone behind the ear during social studies class. I realize that just because it’s been a long time since I’ve done something, it doesn’t [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.Back to the subject at hand. To those who are relatively new to this blog, one of the most popular…uh…tolerated series of posts has been my series on the physical exam. If you haven’t done so already, you may want to go back and read the posts to get in the proper mindset (or destroy [...]
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