Growing up, I wasn’t encouraged to listen to rock-n-roll or pop music. Before my mother became a physician, she sang opera, so I was exposed to classical music, jazz, and show tunes. (Ask my patients. If they leave after a visit without hearing me sing something, I often get a frowny face. But then again, […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 15th, 2005 at 11:55 am and is filed under Infections. 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.

Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis were steamy until they actually “got steamy” on Moonlighting. Why is it when the boy catches the girl, the magic of the show is gone? Look at The Bachelor– proposal, diamond ring, and poof– end of show and the couple– or even worse, gulp, The Bachelorette II. In Moonlighting, Cybill’s […]

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 10th, 2005 at 4:50 pm and is filed under Medicines, Patient Behavior, Pain. 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.

Jan Egeland, the United Nations undersecretary for humanitarian affairs says, “Natural disasters affect at least seven times more people than conflicts.” I don’t know if that is statistically valid, but look around the world. Right now, Louisiana and Mississippi are in trouble. Big trouble.
After September 11, 2001, we might have hoped this country would […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 8th, 2005 at 11:38 am and is filed under Emergencies, Injuries. 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 is the deal with all the TV reality shows? Weren’t The Brady Bunch and The Cosby Show good enough? Now, when I’m on the elliptical rider at the gym, I see people on Fear Factor eat everything but nuclear waste.
At home, I prefer “quality” reality TV (if I ever get a chance to watch) […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 1st, 2005 at 11:52 am and is filed under Pain, Neurologic. 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.