Musings of a Distractible Mind
Thoughts of an odd, but not harmful primary care physician.
Taking a page from Dr. Anonymous, I recorded a video for this post. But there is a problem: it’s long. Sorry about that, but I got rambling about all sorts of things. To somehow make it possible for people to listen to any of it without falling into catatonia, I’ve broken it up into smaller [...]
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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.School starts early here in the South, with my kids starting school this next week. This means that we have the honor of doing sports participation physicals to a throng of uncomfortable teens. I can’t say this is a bad thing, as these exams are really quite simple to do – usually taking less than [...]
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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.Let me kick the hornets’ nest again. I still have misgivings about sending information like this to my patients: How does one not trained in what to overlook interpret the above? To me, this lab result is entirely expected for this patient – given the other medical history that is there. My concern is [...]
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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.My latest podcast on breastfeeding is up at http://housecalldoctor.quickanddirtytips.com and in iTunes. My bottom line is that breastfeeding is the best way for babies to be fed. When I was discussing this with Dr. Gwen, we got into an interesting discussion. The dilemma pediatricians face is that if we strongly push nursing, we are criticizing [...]
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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 central relationship of healthcare – the doctor-patient relationship – is in tatters in many ways. The invasion of the exam room by insurance company rules, malpractice threats, and the media barrage has made things increasingly uncomfortable. But a good relationship is essential to really get/give good care. Obviously there are two players in this [...]
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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.Happy Birthday to Emergiblog, and its every shy and demure blogmistress Kim. I don’t think it’s Kim’s birthday, but it is her blog’s birthday. I wanted to make that clear. I have to say that I recently got to meet Kim at the summit it DC, and she is exactly as expected. She is friendly, [...]
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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.Today has been dull. At one point I started Googling various words looking for stuff to blog about. I struck gold. A search for the word “llama” led me to the following webpage: Captured Bat and a Llama on the Lam. I was intrigued. How could I resist this kind of website? What I found [...]
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