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 [...]
I prefer white Christmases over yellowish-green Christmases. Especially when the colouring is related to the products that seem to be issuing forth unbridled from my dog and son’s GI tract!
Dog crapping all over the place after getting into a box of butter shortbread cookies.
Toddler son vomiting all over his nice Reindeer sleep suit and [...]
I had a conversation recently with a colleague that reminded me of a particularly bizarre and morbid case from medical school. Now, dear readers, you get to hear it. Anyway, I was doing my surgical rotation my third year of med school and unfortunately (or fortunately depending how you look at [...]
I know you want to believe Ma’am that your “wonderful” husband MUST be having some horrible medical emergency since he was at a party, crying, and slumped over in the corner. You seem to want to think he had a seizure, head trauma, or some other serious thing. In fact, he was just……………..
DRUNK!
Now, please [...]
This is a link to a pretty horrific video from somewhere in the middle east ( I am guessing Lebanon). This dude attempts to dive into the water and comes up short. The scene is awful. The part I am shocked by is the scene in the ER at the end. I have never (and hope [...]
Not for the faint of stomach.
BTW, that is brain that is coming out. His skull is crushed in about 30% of the way. He didn’t have [...]
Head over to White Coat’s for my post discussing family demands for admission that are not [...]
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