Musings of a Distractible Mind
Thoughts of an odd, but not harmful primary care physician.
It has been a while since I have discussed the really important news going on in the world. I have just been far too distracted by silly things such as meta-analyses, happiness, friends being sued, and civic duty. Enough of petty things. It always gets me worried when I see a sudden surge in news [...]
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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 am doing my civic duty this week. For reasons not clear to me, being a physician is seen as a positive by lawyers when choosing a jury. Hence, I have been going to court for the past few days and hearing a case. Since the trial is ongoing, I can’t write anything about it [...]
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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.A few years back, I had three patients over 80-years old in a row coming to see me in my office. I noted the fact ahead of time and decided to get their pooled perspective on life. How would people who had lived since the Great Depression view life today and the changes that have [...]
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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.When you read headlines like "Link found between diabetes drug and heart attack risks," give a sympathetic thought toward offices like mine. A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine raised this possibility for the drug Avandia. The study, done by Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, is a meta-analysis of previous [...]
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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.In honor of Flea, I am re-publishing a poem I wrote in the comments of a post from his blog. He had found the name of the new ADHD patch, Daytrana, humorous. He felt that it sounded like the name of a wicked woman who takes advantage of weak and unsuspecting men. Overcome by 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.One year ago today I blogged my first post on “Musings of a Distractible Mind.” Actually I misspelled the word “Distractible” and left it there for a few weeks until I noticed. Since Moof had yet to discover me and proclaim me worth reading (which was really the break that got me readers), I had [...]
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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.Big happenings in the world of medical blogs. First Barbados Butterfly disappears. Then Fat doctor is "exposed" by a coworker (or cow-orker, as Dogbert would say). Finally my dear friend Flea goes AWOL. You all know the story (if you at all read medblogs). I understand the situation with Flea (I think). He is in [...]
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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.In response to the current hullabaloo about bloggers disappearing, I propose a code of conduct for medical bloggers. While I like the idea of the HON code (and am still working on becoming certified), I want something less aimed at medical content sites (sites that give advice to non-medical people) and more focused on medical [...]
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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.Long day today. I get Mondays off, but I pay for it on Tuesdays. We have been doing 4-day weeks now for a couple of years, but I am having second-thoughts about it. It makes the rest of the week much tougher. I start seeing patients at 8:00 AM (7:30 if I have morning walk-in [...]
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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.There was a stretch were I was getting a good number of people coming to this blog after searching for the term: "Dr. Rob Psychic." I was thrilled. People were coming to my website because they thought I was psychic. Perhaps I was one of the Psychic Friends! From what I can tell, this paranormal [...]
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