What is up with this? Two cases this week? See the abnormality above? I feel like the friggin’ grim reaper!!!!
Again I had to tell a guy he is totally screwed. Even though he had quite smoking 5 years ago when he was forty, the damage of doing that for 25 years […]

Man I know it sucks.  You came in for cough for several weeks and feeling “like crap”. You were told you had a sinus infection (which you probably did) but are not better.
The x-ray I did shows a nasty -assed thing in your lungs (see it on the x-ray?) which as it turns out is lung […]

“Hi Doc, I have your patient Mrs Hypercoagulable here and she is short of breath. I think she might have a pulmonary embolism since she has a history of cancer”
“Yeah, I think she probably does, she has even more risk factors than that.”
“Really? What else? Cancer is a pretty big one.”
“She has known deep venous […]

Not at all like the recent case I had of a man with painfully obvious end-stage cancer, I had another sick patient the other night. This lady was in her 40’s and listed no medical problems on her history. She had sudden abdominal pain and came to the ER. At first look, she just […]

Poor Patrick Swayze died yesterday at the age of 57 from pancreatic cancer. Amazingly he lived more than a year (and pretty functionally at that - he was able to star in the police series, The Beast this past year) with the disease. He was dubbed the “sexiest man alive” in 1991 and […]

I am extremely sad to tell you Mrs Wakeupandsmellthecoffee that your husband is dying of cancer. I personally am flabbergasted that somehow this was not very obvious to you. After all, he has lost 45 lbs in 2 months, has a massively swollen abdomen and legs, is jaundiced, cannot eat and cannot walk. […]

A big study’s conclusions were recently published and is making the rounds on the web and TV news. Honestly, the data does not surprise me much. Basically, the conclusion of the study by Dr Rashmi Sinha and colleagues from the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland ( published in the 23 […]