Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers participated in the first documented blog rally to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at having all of us understand and communicate our end-of-life wishes. It was a great success, with over 100 bloggers in the healthcare space and beyond participating and spreading the word. Plus, [...]
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Dear Influenza Vaccine: I am sorry to be so formal, but using your pet name, “flu shot”, doesn’t seem appropriate in a letter like this. I am also sorry to be writing this letter; I don’t want you to be hurt and I don’t want others to think bad of you. I just don’t love [...]
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There once was a llama of gold Whose image was one to behold The bloggers did love it And unwaveringly covet So to the new contest entrolled A haiku is sort-of a poem Though many who read them don’t know ‘em The rules are unbending From start until ending Just one added word and you [...]
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Breast cancer makes me quite emotional. My mother and two of my sisters have had breast cancer; all were picked up with mammograms. A good friend of ours was diagnosed in her forties with aggressive breast cancer through mammography. She is currently doing well. I don’t like breast cancer and am definitely against women dying [...]
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The ongoing saga of ADD (and sometimes H) continues on today’s podcast. I go into more details about how to diagnose it, and the why, what, and when about treatment. (Go HERE for the podcast, or download it on iTunes.) One point I make in the podcast is that I do think that stimulant medications [...]
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It’s that part of the job that I’ve never gotten used to. I hope I never do. I saw a man recently with an unexpected finding on his exam – a “lesion” that should not have been there. I was seeing him for his diabetes and blood pressure, and was doing my “ritual” physical exam, [...]
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Yea!! It’s the time everyone has been waiting for. I even got a call from Oprah asking if I have chosen the winner (she’s just jealous, you know). It’s time to give away Golden Llamas!! Not so fast. This post won’t actually award the GLA, but instead gives you all of the haikus in their [...]
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If you got a bunch of gunk in your reader yesterday, it was because I tried a new plugin and I guess I didn’t understand it. If you enjoyed getting all of that in your reader, then you are welcome. Here’s a haiku to express my emotions about this: I am so sorry About the [...]
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I logged on to our EMR from home last night. That is one of the “benefits” of EMR – access to information from home and the ability to finish your charts when at home instead of hanging around the office to do it. It really is a benefit; it’s also an anvil. Seeing the long [...]
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Someone suggested I was being mean or making fun of patients in my previous post. Those of you who read this blog regularly (aside from needing serious psychiatric evaluation) are aware that I am quite sympathetic of my patients’ position in this relationship. Mine is a position of power, while they are coming to me [...]
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