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Tinnitis: ringing in your ear isn’t from someone talking about you

Vincent van Gogh is one of my favorite painters of all time. He was so ahead of his time that he didn’t know his “Starry Night” painting would look like a type of lymphoma under the microscope!
It’s so sad van Gogh didn’t make money with his paintings. In fact, rumors abound that […]

Shingles Vaccine: Zostavax is available

Steve Carell has a hard life. I’m sure he got seasick on the Ark while filming Evan Almighty in Crozet. In his NBC show The Office, he’s as clueless as Alicia Silverstone in Clueless. In Anchorman, he had only three– at best four– brain cells.
But in reality he’s very well educated. He went to […]

Chantix: Quit Smoking!

My life is so not glamorous. Because I have such a small practice, I usually can’t afford to have outside help. But now we’re hiring a nurse practitioner, and we’ve been hauling things all over, hammering away, dusting behind corners that haven’t seen light since 1904, yadda yadda yadda.
Things could be worse– like having tea […]

Aortic Stenosis: A Tight Valve

Arnold Schwarzenegger– excuse me, Governor Schwarzenegger– is quite an interesting man. When I was a teenager and saw him in Conan the Barbarian, I didn’t think he could act. (How hard can it be to act like a barbarian?) Even decapitating his enemies didn’t seem real. Lederhosen would have been more realistic on him– but […]