Musings of a Distractible Mind
Thoughts of an odd, but not harmful primary care physician.
I think I am starting to jump on the bandwagon driven by Sandy at Junkfood Science. It seems there are more and more articles coming out publicly that decry the problem of obesity in a way that goes beyond the science of the issue. It seems that there is a cultural war against obesity that [...]
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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 a recent editorial in the Washington Post, Walter E. Williams states: Do we want the government employees who run the troubled Walter Reed Army Medical Center to be in charge of our entire health-care system? Or, would you like the people who deliver our mail to also deliver health-care services? How would you like [...]
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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 busy week. We were down to 4 physicians (we add one next week and will be back up to 5), and 2 of them have been off since Tuesday, so things have bee hectic at work. Still, I have gotten things finished and have left work with enough time to read Harry [...]
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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.Medstudentwife (AKA Lala) asks me the following question: When I was a kid, Dad would bring home a dozen donuts every now an then as a special treat. When eating them as dessert after dinner, he would ask us to save the "hole" because he could take them back and get another dozen donuts for [...]
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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 had a mother tell me yesterday, "Dr. Rob, I remember so clearly when you walked in to my hospital room when my daughter was born 10 years ago. You said ‘I just want you to know that your daughter looks perfect.‘ I was just so happy that everything was OK, but you said that [...]
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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.Dear Patient: I am writing this to set the record straight. Coming to the doctor is often an awkward thing. Many people don’t want the spotlight focused on them, and so react unnecessarily to things that happen in the office. Let me give you some tips that may help the office visits go better 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.The headline read: Electronic Health Records Don’t Lift Care. Balderdash! That’s like saying that cars don’t improve transportation compared to walking. Now, certainly if people don’t know how to drive, cars are not much use to them, but there is no way I would ever go back to practicing without my EMR. I couldn’t do [...]
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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 talking today with a specialist friend (yes I do have them) today and we were talking about a patient of mine whom he had angered. He is one of the gentler people I know, so when I got the irate call from the patient about his care, I had a good idea what [...]
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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 Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics was made so that medical bloggers could give a clear statement of their blog’s ethic. It was brought up that there are people who are not healthcare workers who wanted to stand behind the code but did not want to portray themselves as medical bloggers, so the Patient Blogger [...]
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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.Tom asks the following question: I recently had an MRI, this is the third or fourth, any time I go though the anti-theft devices at stores. The alarm sounds when I have nothing on me. What can I do? Good question, Tom. Before I answer the question, however, I need to address the fact that [...]
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