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Narcissistic Personality Disorder: I love me and Who are you?

How do you read this advertisement? “It’s All About ME”
One of my best friends says this all the time, and so when he showed me this ad, I thought it was all about– him. However, it’s a vacation ad for Maine (ME).
In the show Medium, the psychic heroine keeps getting a message from […]

Blood Pressure: How to Read the Numbers for Hypertension

Things pop all the time. “Pop goes the weasel!” “I’m so mad my head is going to pop off!” “Pop open the trunk.”
We pop off the heads of dandelions. At the movies we eat pop corn. In the Midwest, soda is called “pop.” Champagne corks can pop into your eye and cause damage (a […]

PTSD: Post traumatic stress disorder: reliving the horror

One of my favorite movies of all time is When Harry Met Sally. No, it isn’t because of Meg Ryan’s “faking it” scene in the restaurant. I love the movie because of the way Billy Crystal’s and Meg’s characters deal with their losses in love. Harry mopes a lot. Sally becomes a cold, distant person […]

Fibroids: Not Fireballs in Women

Jerry Lee Lewis sang a hit song, “Great Balls of Fire,” that became an international sensation. He also became an international “defamation” as quickly as he rose to the top, poor guy. Every time I hear a patient mispronounce their uterine fibroids, I think of the title of his song: “I have some ‘fire balls’ […]

Crack Heard Around the World: My Chiropractor

Have you ever gone somewhere incognito? Jan Brady went to the pharmacy wearing a head scarf and Jackie O sunglasses because she wanted to buy a product to remove her freckles. Michael Jackson wore a mummy outfit to avoid the paparazzi– like that would work.
I wanted to go incognito when I went for my […]