Musings of a Distractible Mind
Thoughts of an odd, but not harmful primary care physician.
I have to confess something to you: I like blogging more than I like podcasting. There are a number of reasons for this: my podcast has a deadline, my blog does not; my podcast doesn’t have direct feedback from listeners like my blog does; I have more freedom in topic selection for my blog. But [...]
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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 haven’t been blogging as much lately. You may have noticed. I hear there was great celebration in Switzerland. The main reason for this is a lack of time. To sit and write something (especially longer posts, such as the physical exam posts) takes a good amount of time and mental energy, and much of [...]
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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 ongoing saga of ADD (and sometimes H) continues on today’s podcast. I go into more details about how to diagnose it, and the why, what, and when about treatment. (Go HERE for the podcast, or download it on iTunes.) One point I make in the podcast is that I do think that stimulant medications [...]
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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.More people get it wrong than right. I have more people coming to my blog doing the search “Musings of a Distractable Mind” than by the correctly-spelled version. I made this same mistake when I started. English is dumb. Shouldn’t it be “able” because it means “able to be distracted?” Nobody is “ible to be [...]
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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.My latest podcast is up, covering the issue of primary care. I have gotten lots of questions about finding a good PCP, but the subject was large enough to merit more than one podcast. This one is about what primary care is, and the next will cover how to find a good PCP. Let me [...]
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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.Newest podcast is up on iTunes. It covers the dreaded problems of halitosis. As a doctor I can attest that a fair percentage of people saying “ah” should do so with caution. 5 points to the first person who catches the pun.
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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.My latest podcast on breastfeeding is up at http://housecalldoctor.quickanddirtytips.com and in iTunes. My bottom line is that breastfeeding is the best way for babies to be fed. When I was discussing this with Dr. Gwen, we got into an interesting discussion. The dilemma pediatricians face is that if we strongly push nursing, we are criticizing [...]
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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.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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