I have a confession: I am cynical about Washington’s efforts to pass good healthcare reform. Sorry for those of you who I just shocked; would those standing next to them please administer CPR? I know most of you trust our government to do what’s best. Sorry to burst that bubble. The reason I am cynical is [...]
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More people get it wrong than right. I have more people coming to my blog doing the search “Musings of a Distractable Mind” than by the correctly-spelled version. I made this same mistake when I started. English is dumb. Shouldn’t it be “able” because it means “able to be distracted?” Nobody is “ible to be [...]
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PLACE OF OCCURRENCE, HOME ICD-E849.0 6:00 AM Alarm goes off. Hit snooze button. CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP D/O IRREG SLEEPWAKE TYPE ICD-327.33 6:30 Alarm goes off for third time. Ready to hit snooze button, but knee in ribs from wife prevents more snooze button procrastination. CONTUSION OF CHEST WALL ICD-922.1, ADULT MALTREATMENT UNSPECIFIED NEC ICD-995.8 Feeling [...]
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I was sitting in the third session of the medical blogger track at Blogworld Expo and noticed something. On the screen to the right of the speakers was a live feed from Twitter. It seemed that everything posted there had the word “Blogworld” in it, so I twittered the following: Like magic, my tweet went [...]
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I had a patient in the office today who doesn’t have insurance. He told me that a recent prescription he got was too expensive. This is not surprising, as many of the brand name, and even some of the generic medications are quite expensive. What surprised me was the fact that the expensive medication was [...]
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Zippy does not speak Tamil. He doesn’t like curry. Please post this request anywhere you can. Please spread the word about Zippy’s captivity. Let the insanity stop.
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They say that breaking up is hard to do Now I know, I know that it’s true Don’t say that this is the end Instead of breaking up I wish that we were making up again There are times that relationships need to end. Usually something happens to undermine trust; it’s hard to build trust, [...]
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Well, maybe it is more of a sympathy page, but I did create a page for this blog on Facebook. Why? Because I wanted people to be able to follow the blog on Facebook without having to see what my kids look like. I also can do things like quizzes, lists, throwing chickens, and other [...]
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It was a legitimate challenge. When I mentioned to a fellow blogger that I was appearing on NPR, and he raised a very important question: ”Is that really a good thing? I thought that the point of blogging was to pose a challenge to the mainstream media, but it seems like bloggers feel like they [...]
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I am sitting now in the medical blogger track at the Blogworld Expo. As is generally the case, I got here too late to bum around with the med bloggers last night. It happened when I went the the “Putting Patients First” summit in DC as well. I just seem to have that kind of [...]
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