Musings of a Distractible Mind
Thoughts of an odd, but not harmful primary care physician.
Sometimes all you want to do is to survive. This is especially true when it is 2 AM and your child has a temperature of 104 degrees and won’t stop crying. Such experiences have made me much more compassionate in my approach to parents when they bring their sick children in to the office. Still, [...]
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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 what brought you here? Why are you here visiting my blog? What brought you here the first time? Many come via links from other blogs. For some it is just extremely bad luck that brought them to here. Perhaps it is some ancient curse put on your ancestors that causes you to be condemned [...]
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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.He comes back to me often: a young son in a family that had decided to use me – a fairly new doctor in the community. They were a fairly normal family, except for the fact that they had chosen me as their doctor – something for which I was still very grateful. The children [...]
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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.Two things happened in the office yesterday worth noting. The first happened when I was talking to an elderly Alzheimer’s patient. I asked her how she was doing and she leaned forward and said quietly, "I am doing just great, Dr. Rob." Then she added, "If you want me to, I can dance for you." [...]
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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.Put on your foil hat and head on over to MedPage. My most recent post over there has brought some ire from the Autism/Mercury conspiracy theorists. Go on over there and join the zany and madcap discussion. I am really confused as to why someone running for president would want to emulate a woman famous [...]
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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.Common myths about infections and antibiotics Much attention has been given to the fact that antibiotics are given too often. The reason for this concern is that the overuse of antibiotics can create resistance in the bacteria a person carries, making it much harder to treat serious infections in the future. For that reason, the [...]
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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.We spend a lot of time educating our patients. It is necessary to do so because there are so many misunderstandings that are widely held and our advice often contradicts these misunderstandings. Also, it is part of the transaction of a medical encounter for us to give information to the patient. This is what they [...]
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