When you were last enraptured by my physical exam series, I was explaining the different directions doctors use to confuse themselves and everyone else. I am happy to leave that land of relativity and now re-embark on the actual human body. I am sure this relativistic view of direction was invented by some liberal anatomist [...]
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My newest podcast is up on iTunes (go here for the web-based version). It’s the first of a two (maybe more) part series on influenza – covering flu in general. We have been seeing a significant number of cases of the flu over the past week, which is extremely unusual for this time of year. [...]
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Grand Rounds is up at The Examining Room of Dr. Charles. For those who don’t know him, Dr. Charles was in the blogging world before I was. He has always been regarded as a thoughtful blogger and a terrific writer. He also once wrote about peeing in the shower. That alone makes him a force [...]
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Something touched a nerve yesterday. I kind of lost my composure when someone tried to defend the insurance industry and responded out of emotion – perhaps putting aside some reason in the process. I used to get mad at myself or embarrassed when this happened, but now I stand back and try to analyze my [...]
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“I need to talk to you” was the greeting I was met with this morning as I walked into the office. There were “a large number of flu cases in a local school” and we need to prepare for it. These are supposedly “documented” H1N1 influenza. My nurse and I sat down and we batted [...]
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You may have noticed that there is a lot of interest in two issues these days: the woes of the healthcare system and the economy. We in the south have especially felt the sting of this with the aggressive anti-smoking tactics taken by the government. After being sent the following picture from an astute reader, [...]
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Death panels. They are all the trend these days. I went to Home Depot to look for some, but couldn’t find any. There was some drywall of doom, tiles of the abyss, and sheet rock of destruction, but no panels. I guess the Obama administration has bought them all. Honestly, I am not sure what [...]
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Even though it resulted in accusations of an insecure ego, I am glad that I kicked the hornets nest in my previous post. This discussion made me realize something that has been bothering for a long time. Now I know what is so painful about medical records and what causes medicine to be so difficult [...]
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I made the front page of the paper today! While there are many circumstances where this would not be a good thing, today is not one of those circumstances. I am not running for political office, I have not been stopped for my 17th speeding ticket, and I was not caught freeing llamas from a [...]
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