I am used to gross stuff.  I see it every day.  But still, there are times I just do a double take and almost throw up a little in my mouth.  The other day a youngish woman came with “sores on the leg”. Much to my horror, when I asked to see the sores,  she […]

Lets see, you’re a 43 year old woman and in my ER with recurrent facial abscesses. You have celulitis all over your cheek which is very puffy. Your teeth are rotted. You have snorted massive amounts of cocaine for more than 20 years and now your entire nasal septum is gone and the resulting cavernous […]

Occasionally I meet a flirtatious patient. I mean, come on, I am so Uber-Hott that it comes with the turf of being me! (Cue the cymbal crash). Anyway, sometimes a chief complaint or at least the description of symptoms don’t lend themselves well to making one’s self sexually alluring. GI complaints […]

ERP: Ma’am, what brings you in today?
Ms Chandelier : I got some pain down there.
Mr Aloof (bf of patient sitting there stuffing french fries down his gaping maw) : Yeah, and she stink.
ERP: Have you two been using condoms?
Ms Chandelier : Mostly
ERP: Discharge?
Mr Aloof : Munch, munch, munch. Yeah, Doc.
ERP: OK, […]

There are doctors out there that just give the rest of us a bad name. It looks especially bad if the doctor is a plastic surgeon - who already have to deal with media stereotypes (like that douche-bag Dr Rey who does push-ups in his muscle scrubs before a case - and […]

What a surprise. A large study has found that the prices for brand name drugs have risen to uproarious levels. In 2008. prices rose 100% for 71 different drug products vs 28 of them in 2000. One drug’s prices rose by 4200 % !!!!!!! Read about it in the NY Times today.
The price gouging did […]

Funny how a consultant (in this case a neurosurgeon) who is consistently known for refusing to come in to see patients (usually just looking at the CT scan over the internet radiology system and deeming them “not a surgical candidate” or some other nonsense), SUDDENLY has started coming in and speaking with families, and, GASP!, […]