Katie Couric used to be called “perky.” When I think of perky, I think of my mother’s old coffee percolator with Chock Full O’Nuts. Most patients and people I know say to me, “Where do you get your energy? You are so perky!”
My response is, “Better living through chemistry and a mortgage to pay […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 15th, 2005 at 12:15 pm 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.

There are too many homonyms and acronyms that all sound the same but have different meanings. How in the world can we keep up with all the different meanings for the same-sounding words?
For example, PSA in medicine means “prostate specific antigen,” but at the news station it means “public service announcement.” There are many […]

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 10th, 2005 at 5:02 pm and is filed under Health & Wellness, Cardiovascular, Pain, Diabetes, 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.

I love fruitcake. Does that make me odd? Hey, anything soaked in rum long enough tastes like– well, rum! Yum, yum! I’m starting to tell all my patients, “If I see you before the holidays, make sure you bring me fruitcake– and your co-payment. Haha.”
Most patients frown and say, “I’ll gladly give you any fruitcake […]

This entry was posted on Monday, December 5th, 2005 at 3:29 pm and is filed under Food, Weight, Health & Wellness, Diabetes. 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.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days of auld lang syne?
This song makes no sense, but I sing it every year at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve. Why do I bother to sing it when I’m clueless about its meaning? For all I know, the […]

This entry was posted on Monday, December 5th, 2005 at 2:35 pm and is filed under Patient Behavior, Health & Wellness. 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.

I was at the grocery store this weekend, and two women came up to me screaming, “We know you! Yadda yadda yadda!”
They were so funny and friendly that I figured we must know each other. But then “Mr. Uncomfortable” hit me, because I couldn’t figure out who they were. I’m terrible with names, so […]

This entry was posted on Monday, December 5th, 2005 at 2:15 pm and is filed under Infections, Health & Wellness. 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.