Musings of a Distractible Mind
Thoughts of an odd, but not harmful primary care physician.
As many of you may know, I am fascinated with the Christmas tradition in the town of Galve, Sweden in which they build a giant statue of a goat. What could bring more yule cheer than a goat? Perhaps a Llama, but not much else. Anyway, there is another tradition in which some scoundrels try [...]
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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.The party-line statement for the pharmaceutical industry regarding the high cost of prescription drugs is that a large amount of money is needed for research and development. From their own website: Significant time and money is needed to research and develop new, safe and effective medicines. Economists estimate that it takes an average of 12 [...]
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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.A skeptical reader from Houston asks: "What are the effects of speedboats on a fetus?" Now, I have to start out by addressing the purists out there who would point out that a child does not become a fetus officially until the 9th week of gestation, meaning that the title of this blog should actually [...]
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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.Obviously, many of the letters sent to me since my inaugural "Ask Dr. Rob" post have been a bit on the silly side. I will go that route fairly soon. But one of the questions was actually quite serious. Mario, who works over at the Huffington Post writes: How does a scientific report about skin [...]
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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.Vijay (who is getting into a bad habit in tagging me) has tagged me with the following meme: 1. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves. 2. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts. 3. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged. [...]
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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.Clear representation of perspective – readers must understand the training and overall perspective of the author of a blog. Certainly bloggers can have opinions on subjects outside of their training, and these opinions may be true, but readers must have a place to look on a blog to get an idea of where this author [...]
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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.Holly thinks the drug companies are really dumb. We got this huge box from a drug company advertising a drug that was released simply to extend the patent of a previously successful drug that went OTC and generic (hint: call it Claritin XP – for extend patent). So she got her evil bunk-detecting eyes (which [...]
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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.Well, let’s get this thing off the ground. Right off the bat, Awesome Mom asked in incredibly good question: “Why does my husband think that putting ketchup on tacos is a normal thing to do?” Given the fact that I happen to have spent some time doing basic taco research, and that I have eaten [...]
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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.Did you ever wonder: Why am I here? Where does that highway lead to? How do you use a semicolon properly? What are "living daylights" and why can they be scared out of me? Where does Dr. Rob get buy his mouthwash? What is the capital of Assyria? How do you raise milk goats successfully? [...]
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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.Oh boy, I can’t resist this one! Scientists create robot toddler A group of scientists in Japan have developed a humanoid that acts like a toddler to better understand child development. The Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, was developed by a team of researchers at Osaka University in western Japan and is designed to [...]
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