Musings of a Distractible Mind
Thoughts of an odd, but not harmful primary care physician.
Today has been lousy. It’s one of those days where you start to worry about being hit by meteors or lightning bolts. Nothing huge happened, just an accumulation of many little things; but it got under my skin. I keep my personal journal entries on on a program on my computer, and all of my [...]
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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 post that forever doomed the world to have my writing forced onto them was one called Shame, in which I describe my frustration with how society stigmatizes people who are obese. It was picked up by the NY TImes Health Blog and got a good conversation about the subject going on the blog-o-sphere. A [...]
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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.I have no single thing I want to write about today. I am weary of the obvious topic: the “passage” of the 6-month extension on the SGR, but do feel I need to comment. I am tired of this. I am tired of being jerked around by congress. I am tired of congress hitting the [...]
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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.Chicken – noun – A game in which the first person to lose nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser. This definition is wrong. As of June 18, 2010, the definition is as follows: Chicken – noun – A game in which members of congress put Americans in a dangerous situation, with the healthcare system being the loser. In my lament about losing [...]
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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.It’s been a very long time since I did an Ask Dr. Rob post. It’s also been a long time since I shot a spitball out of a straw and hit someone behind the ear during social studies class. I realize that just because it’s been a long time since I’ve done something, it doesn’t [...]
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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.“I’m sorry I waited so long to come in to be seen,” she told me after having symptoms for two weeks. She had a truly apologetic expression on her face, looking to me for reassurance that I wasn’t too mad at her. “That’s OK. It’s hard to know when you felt bad enough to come [...]
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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.Credit He came in for his regular blood pressure and cholesterol check. On the review of systems sheet he circled “depression.” “I see you circled depression,” I said after dealing with his routine problems. ”What’s up?” “I don’t think I am actually clinically depressed, but I’ve just been finding it harder to get going recently,” [...]
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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.I was going to call this post “shout outs,” but I didn’t want to infringe upon others’ copyrighted material. This is basically the same thing for me – it’s a post to highlight some great stuff going on elsewhere and to thank people for their kindness, graciousness, and for simply not slapping me. A String [...]
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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.Credit My wife has become a coupon maven recently. This is a good thing, as we are saving quite a bit of money and I have always wanted to be married to a maven. One of the unexpected consequences has been the regular appearance of packages in the mail. We get free samples of everything [...]
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