Too much seriousness lately…the readers are getting restless. Then the following article blasted across my consciousness like a Howitzer LA County says OK to couple’s goats, llama, emu Wed May 27, 12:11 pm ET LOS ANGELES – A Southern California couple will not be allowed to have 15 goats. They’ll have to settle for 10 [...]
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Spending Spree Atul Gawande wrote a recent article for the New Yorker in which he discusses the disparity of cost in various parts of the country. He visits McAllen, TX, where the cost of care is nearly double that of the national average. Initially it is not clear as to why the cost is so [...]
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Dear patient: I am sorry you are so frustrated with me. I’m frustrated too. People used to look on me as a good thing, but now everyone makes me out to be public enemy #1. It’s not my fault. I was made to give you what you need: medical care; but then they kept changing [...]
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My little brother once said to me: “Rob, you are using uncorrect grammage.” I thought this was one of the most ironic things I had ever heard. I grew up in a family that valued precision in speaking. It was pretty obnoxious at times; if you ever used a misplaced modifier or misused the word [...]
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Three years ago, I started Musings of a Distractible Mind. I am not sure how I came up with this name, but I am glad I did. It not only is a quirky title, but it really fits what I ended up doing. I was on the Blogger platform at that time, but got frustrated [...]
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“That doesn’t make any sense.” The patient sits across the exam room and looks at me with a combination of surprise and hurt. He had answered all of my questions to the best of his abilities, hoping that I would figure out what was causing the symptoms and fix his problem. A bit of doubt [...]
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There goes the Neighborhood. Blogworld Expo will have to contend with medical bloggers, including myself. The conference runs from October 15 through 17, and the medical bloggers will convene on the 15th. It is being held in Las Vegas, so there is very little chance for things to get too serious. The following is a [...]
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Linus Pauling won the Nobel Prize twice, once for his work in the field of chemistry and once for his activism against above-ground nuclear testing. What I remember him for, however, was his strong advocacy of mega-doses of vitamin C. This is a shame, because this advocacy of what was termed orthomolecular medicine somewhat sullied [...]
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From WSJ: Senate Considers Health Insurance Mandate The Senate Finance Committee — a key power center in the health-reform debate — yesterday published this overview of health-insurance options. Congress is pushing for a health-reform bill in the next few months, and the overview gives a pretty good sense of what’s on the table. As the [...]
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Before you get too “conspiracy theory” on me, let me assure you that I am not going to talk about how the influenza virus pandemic is the work of terrorists (unless the Napoleon and Snowball are trying to take over our farm). I am also not suggesting that children are terrorists (although some do raise [...]
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