Musings of a Distractible Mind
Thoughts of an odd, but not harmful primary care physician.
No, not this kind of salon (for an American Girl doll, no less), but I am quoted in Salon.com by Rahul Parikh in a segment he did critiquing the medical point of view of the Huffington Post. It is an excellent piece (despite my inclusion being clear indication of dropping standards). Go and read and [...]
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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.Am I the only one seeing the obvious? There has been lots of talk about reforming healthcare in a way that is budget-neutral. The president has touted the use of EMR and of preventive medicine to save money. Many have rightly pointed out that both of these are unlikely to save money. EMR will only [...]
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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 wrote this with the desire to address a common summertime condition: poison ivy. Edited out was the admonition: Never swing on a hairy vine. In the southeastern US, poison ivy grows into huge vines which are easy to identify as they are covered in a hairy coating. I’ve seen people come in with 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’ve now been doing the podcast for a few weeks and am anxious to see what the download numbers show at the end of the month. Thank you for all my readers and medical blogger friends who have subscribed and promoted the podcast. I remain the #1 health podcast, and am still in the top [...]
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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.They gathered around the figure who was lying with face toward the ground. Holding stones, they demanded justice – that the sin of this person be exposed for what it is: inferiority. Her sin had been exposed for all to see and the righteous rage of those who were pointing fingers and holding stones was [...]
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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 your golden opportunity! You can earn a Golden Llama award and make fun of me in the process. Above is a picture of me with congressman Ryan at the Putting Patients First meeting in Washington DC. Clearly Mr. Ryan is thrilled to meet “The Hulk Hogan of Medical Bloggers.” But what are we actually [...]
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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 recent oft-cited study showed that doctors who who apologized for mistakes were less likely to be sued. My initial reaction to that is to file it under “duh.” But then I was greeted with a note lying on my desk. Dr. Rob: First, I want to tell you that for the majority of 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.Can dancing like an idiot can prevent pain? Listen to the podcast to find out. Better yet, subscribe on iTunes and find out automatically!
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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.Back to the exam of the human. I suppose I never specified that it was humans that was the focus of this series, but consider it now specified. There may be some cross-over to the examination of other animals, and potentially to alien species. But I don’t want lawyers from some star system 100 light [...]
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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.Oops. I meant Washington’s for Bloggers. Here are my personal musings about my trip. I’ll talk about the actual content of the conference in another post. Got back from DC last night around midnight. My flight back (although delayed) was not as eventful as my trip up to Washington. I was supposed to have dinner with [...]
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