Here are my most recent articles. If you are looking for a topic that you don’t see here, take a look in the Archives to the right -- it’s organized by category or month. Or you can use the search function on the left. Enjoy!
July 9th, 2008
“We Are Family, I got all my sisters with me. Get up everybody and sing!” Go, Sister Sledge!! (Where are they now?)
Family is something so powerful, so encompassing, so-ah, complicated. The Partridge Family never had major conflict even though the show started on the premise of the death of Mr. Partridge. Wait a […]
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Office Visits, Patient Behavior, Senior Citizens
July 5th, 2008
“Pregnant?” Have you ever asked a person if she was pregnant, only to learn that well… she isn’t! This is when if you had a tail, you would curl it between your legs. What’s even worse is if the person you asked is a man… well, unless it’s the pregnant man on Oprah. […]
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Patient Behavior, Women's Issues
June 25th, 2008
Transgender people are the bravest people in the world. (If Barbra Streisand ever makes a sequel to Funny Girl, she can add those lyrics to her song “People.”) In the USA, gender roles are narrowly defined and stringent. That’s why I don’t go to comedy clubs anymore-99 percent of all jokes are about how […]
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Sex Issues, Gay Lesbian
June 25th, 2008
Conjunction junction, Erectile dysfunction.” I don’t think my changing the lyrics of this School House Rock song would go over very well. I think Superhero Verb Man would take action against me.
But, lately, erectile dysfunction (ED) medication ads have become the Male House Rock to bring awareness of male sexual dysfunction. Really, before these […]
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Sex Issues, Men's Issues
June 12th, 2008
Invisible patients are like bloggers who think they know everything and get to hide behind an anonymous computer screen to spew out anything. An invisible patient is like someone who wants a free refill on their drink but has already left the restaurant, someone who wants their annual state inspection sticker without bringing […]
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Office Visits, Patient Behavior
June 5th, 2008
POP is such a powerful word. You want things to visually POP out, like a bright tie in contrast to a dark shirt. For my webpage design, I used Opti-POP to make such I wouldn’t be ignored like Glen Close in Fatal Attraction. As a kid, I loved my dinosaur […]
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Digestive System
May 31st, 2008
“I’m hairy noon and night. Hair that’s a fright. I’m hairy high and low. Don’t ask me why. Don’t know” (Hair, the musical).
At my school, Denison University, when we produced Hair, they actually had a nude scene, though the lights were spinning all over the place, and I could tell a bum bum […]
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Infections, Dermatology
May 31st, 2008
Sunburn makes me realize how often people slap me. “Hey mate!” Slap on the singed shoulder. “Can you believe that!” Slap on the red thigh. “Give me a hug!” Slap Slap Slap on the burned back.
Remember on I Love Lucy when sunburned Lucy wore a tweed dress on the runway? She walked like domo […]
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Dermatology
May 17th, 2008
Do doctors make the worst patients? I’m sitting in my hotel room in Utah with ice on my elevated right knee. Torn ACL, chipped bone on my tibia, and possible torn lateral collateral ligament. Yippee, everybody dance now!
After skiing for four fabulous days, I fell at Snowbird while doing nothing and twisted my knee. […]
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Patient Behavior, Bones & Muscles, Pain
May 7th, 2008
“I’m walking on sunshine, Wooah, And don’t it feel good!” Remember Katrina and The Waves? Oh, you don’t? So many one-hit wonders. I don’t know if it would be worse to never have a big song or to think you have it “made in the shade” and then never walk on sunshine again. […]
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Health & Wellness, Bones & Muscles
