Valentine cards, birthday cards, pen-pal letters– few of these come in the mail anymore. I feel like Charlie Brown going to an empty mailbox. Sigh. Actually, that isn’t totally true. I do get bills. And I don’t mean “I’m just a bill, yes I’m only a bill, and I’m sitting here on Capitol [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 27th, 2008 at 8:38 am and is filed under Office Visits, Patient Behavior. 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’m so glad we had this time together….” Sing it, Carol Burnett! I actually have an autographed photo of Carol. She’s funny, vibrant, talented, and very giving. At the end of the show, she would always do her trademark move: the ear tug. Wiggle wiggle wiggle… Goodnight!
But if someone has otitis externa (aka [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 at 10:59 am and is filed under ENT, 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.

“We Are Family, I got all my sisters with me. Get up everybody and sing!” Go, Sister Sledge!! (Where are they now?)
Family is something so powerful, so encompassing, so-ah, complicated. The Partridge Family never had major conflict even though the show started on the premise of the death of Mr. Partridge. Wait a [...]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 at 4:31 pm and is filed under Office Visits, Patient Behavior, Senior Citizens. 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.

“Pregnant?” Have you ever asked a person if she was pregnant, only to learn that well… she isn’t! This is when if you had a tail, you would curl it between your legs. What’s even worse is if the person you asked is a man… well, unless it’s the pregnant man on Oprah. [...]

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 5th, 2008 at 9:14 pm and is filed under Patient Behavior, Women'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.