October 2009

Physical Exam: Elbow Room

by Rob on October 12, 2009 · 14 comments

in Physical Exam

I’ve spent a long time on the shoulder. I really didn’t finish it, leaving out subjects like rotator cuff injuries and driving on a road without a shoulder. Truth be told, I am just getting sick of the shoulder. Just don’t let my shoulders hear about it. So I am going downstream on the arm…or [...]

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Anxiety

by Rob on October 9, 2009 · 25 comments

in Being a Doctor, Personal Musings

Life is pain, Highness, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something. -Wesley, from The Princess Bride Credit Treating anxiety can make you feel like you are on a Mobius strip. An anxious person is usually anxious because they are trying to control something they can’t control.  You can’t control other people.  You can’t control [...]

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Good Primary Care

by Rob on October 6, 2009 · 13 comments

in Being a Doctor

There’s a big buzz about primary care being a great thing; and there are a lot of people toting it as a lynchpin of financial reform.  I believe this is true.  But there is a condition that must be met for any of this true.  It must be primary care done well. The idea of [...]

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Welcome, oh welcome to the world of reform, Where truth is elusive, confusion the norm! Where thinking comes only in partisan form, And people, we’re just at the start of the storm! So hear me divulge the sad story of woe. I wish I could tell you it just isn’t so, But trouble’s aplenty where [...]

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Deep Breath

by Rob on October 2, 2009 · 4 comments

in Being a Doctor, Personal Musings

I was having a bad day. It wasn’t just a single big bad thing happening, it was a lot of little ones.  My main emotion wasn’t anger or frustration, it was overwhelming annoyance.  Some of my emotion wasn’t even caused by work; I hadn’t been getting much sleep and so my emotions were raw.  I [...]

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