Musings of a Distractible Mind
Thoughts of an odd, but not harmful primary care physician.
I have a split medical personality. On one hand, I am a pediatrician; I light up around babies and love to mess around with little kids. On the other hand, I am an Internist; I love complex problems and love talking to the elderly. But the one part of internal medicine which gives me perhaps [...]
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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.We have a cat. He’s fat. His name is Zander, but we call him “Cat,” “Kitty,” “Loaf of Bread” (because that’s what he looks like when he lies down and his fat spreads), lard butt, and “Fatso Catso.” In the picture above he is sitting on a puzzle because…well, because he’s a cat. There are [...]
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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 is one of the biggest struggles and least favorite areas of being a doctor, yet it is something I see far too much: patients taking short-acting narcotic pain medications for chronic pain. There is a degree to which it a good thing, allowing people to get regular prescriptions of smaller amounts of pain medication [...]
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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 think it’s time to bring back an old friend: the Golden Llama Award. The GLA is an award given to people who deserve it. There is only a single criterion (that’s right Latin, isn’t it) needed to get a GLA: my whim. If you do something that I think is particularly GLA worthy I [...]
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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 said I would do it and I will follow through with it: I am going to talk about good things about my job. I must confess, however, that finding 53 of them might be difficult at this moment, as I am overwhelmed with the craziness and stupidity of the system. I must also confess [...]
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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 think people missed my point. Let me say again to those who misunderstood my last post: I am talking about the health care system being broken, not health care itself. Our system is broken, which means that the money put into it is being wasted in staggering amounts. Yes, we are getting some amazing [...]
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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.Health care is broken. Badly broken. I was making a list of areas in which the system is broken (not human error, but system error), and I got up to 53 in one sitting. When I tweeted this, a good friend and fellow blogger wondered why I didn’t start a list of things that are [...]
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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 take care of patients of all ages, but a substantial amount of my time is devoted to routine pediatrics. I try to make a good impression on the kids, knowing that my care will be a lot easier if they aren’t terrified by my presence. Those who don’t do pediatrics often say the reason [...]
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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.You may choose up to 3 (three) answers (answers). [poll id="2"]
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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.Which is worse: Falsely accusing someone of child molestation? Allowing a child to be molested? When the child molestation scandals at Penn State and Syracuse University erupted, I have to confess that I had mixed emotions about the universal outrage. It may seem like the decision to accuse a suspected child abuser would be easy; [...]
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