The following is an actual fictional conversation that took place in the doctor’s lounge at a local hospital.
Internist - Dang, these Medicare cuts are coming and I doubt that congress has the wits to avoid them.  I am not sure I can go on practicing if they cut them any more.
Family Physician - Yeah, we [...]

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An elderly man told me this joke yesterday.  These things help get you through the day.
There was a man whose father gave him some advice: “Just put gunpowder in your oatmeal and eat it every day and you will live to be a ripe old age.”
So the man did what his father said, eating oatmeal [...]

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It’s been a while, hasn’t it?  Has the absence of “Ask Dr. Rob” posts left you feeling empty inside?  Has it made you feel incomplete?
Or has it been similar to the absence of leprosy?
Either way, I am back to answer the questions that you send me.  Our latest question comes from Sid, who asks the [...]

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