My mother’s favorite ride is Disneyland’s “It’s A Small World.” All the little toy children spin around and sing the same song in different languages. At the time Walt Disney oversaw the creation of “It’s A Small World,” the country was not top-heavy with overweight or obese people as the US is today– 66 percent […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 28th, 2005 at 11:47 am and is filed under Food, Weight, Health & Wellness, Exercise. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Mary Poppins said the longest word in English is supercalifragilisticespialidocious. I think the longest-named medicine is Hydrochlorothiazide. (And if you say it loud enough, you’ll always sound precocious.)
Really, hydrochlorothiazide, aka HCTZ, is really not that hard to say. However, for most patients, pronouncing this medicine can be very intimidating. Most patients hate to say […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 14th, 2005 at 11:51 am and is filed under Medicines, Office Visits. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

When I was a freshman in college, my fellow pre-med friend, George, pointed at my face and laughed. I asked him what was so funny. He chanted, “You’ve got a herpes, you’ve got a herpes…” and did a funny bunny-like dance.
The classroom erupted in laughter as I defended myself, “It’s a zit!” (This preceded […]

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 10th, 2005 at 5:24 pm and is filed under Sex Issues, Infections, Women's Issues, Men's Issues. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

What’s the first thing most people ask when a baby is born? If the father of the newborn doesn’t stuff your mouth with a pink- or blue-ribboned cigar reading “It’s a boy!” or “It’s a girl!” most people ask about the sex of the newborn.
What do you do if your newborn is intersexed? Intersex […]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 5th, 2005 at 11:41 am and is filed under Psych, Sex Issues, Women's Issues, Men's Issues, Gay Lesbian. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Imagine sitting in a tropical paradise. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston– oops, scratch that. Okay, Catherine Zeta Jones-look-alikes serve you drinks and fresh papaya.
Then the Creature From The Black Lagoon sits down beside you, starts to yell at his wife/girlfriend/date-of-the-moment, swears at the servers, and plays his Marilyn Manson music at 130 decibels. You have […]

This entry was posted on Saturday, April 2nd, 2005 at 10:03 am and is filed under Psych. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.