Once and a while you get lucky. Fortune just smiles on you. This does not quite make up for the number of times fortune defaecates on you but still, it is nice once and a while! The other night I had what started out as a typically busy night - but nothing […]

If you are going to get on top of your partner for an “intimate moment” and you weigh significantly more than he or she does (in this patient’s case both were he’s), please be careful as to the “angle of entry”.  Also, one should avoid vigourous jumping up and down when during the aforementioned off-kilter […]

My first day back after vacationing was a rude re-awakening. I never realise how much you simply “forget” when you are away just thinking about what is for dinner and whether to order Chianti Classico or Nebiollo. I forgot how sad and pathetic our obesity epidemic is in this country. Today I […]

Above you will see a photo from my recent trip to Switzerland and Italy - to be exact it is from a town on Lake Como called Cernobbio. What is it? Well, at first I thought it was a public library - until I saw this red cross sign and ambulances parked out back. Turns […]

The fam and I are off for a week to Europe - Switzerland and Lake Como, Italy to be exact. Other than the crushing cost of gas and the pathetic Dollar vs the Euro, I am very excited.
Will be back with more posts upon my return…..

Well, our esteemed president has vetoed a recent bill that is to prevent a 10.6 cut in medicare payments to doctors. Fortunately, his veto was easily crushed overridden by Congress. Of course he claims that:
“Taking choices away from seniors to pay physicians is wrong,” Bush said. “I urge the Congress […]

Well, as is the case over much of the country, free or inexpensive clinics are overrun with patients. Many of the users of the systems are poor Americans, not just undocumented immigrants. This is the case with the clinic in our hospital. Since our clinic is “nicer” than the others in the area […]