Hey, yesterday was National Doctor’s Day. Hmmmmm. What would be an appropriate gift for us? An overhauled health care system? A day of no one asking for narcs or Z-packs? A free pass on one law suit?
Nah, we just got free breakfast. Yeeeaaaay.

Word to the wise: I have said it before and I will say it again, if you put something in your rectum, make sure you remember to take it out (assuming you are able to get it out!). This is basic, people.
The other night I had a man in his 40’s present with […]

The “Ey Yey Yey” (pronounced EYE YEI YEI) syndrome is one that ER docs dread. It refers to a usually middle aged Hispanic female who comes in with nonspecific compliants accompanied by a constant “Ey yey yey! Ey yey yey!” (incidentally, people of different cultures have their own versions of this). 9 times out of […]

If you have chronic renal failure and are on dialysis, guess what? I know it sucks but your life is RULED by dialysis. You can’t survive without it. You can’t do anything without making sure your dialysis is lined up. You can’t travel without making arrangements. Oh, wait, I know what you […]

The other day I had a patient who was an elderly male in his 80’s who had syncopised and sustained mild head trauma. He was a WW2 vet who had seen a lot. He was one of the initial group of US soldiers who liberated some concentration camps in Germany. I can’t imagine what it […]

The other day a elderly husband-wife combo was triaged for back pain. They came in together by ambulance conveniently enough. The man’s complaint was “Back pain going down my right buttock” and the woman’s complaint was “back pain going down my left buttock”.
One us had an idea how this could have happened. They were at […]

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 […]