What a gas! How did that expression ever come about? Maybe it’s because all of have flatulence every day (i.e. we fart). One reader told me his mother said, “Fart is a four-letter word. We ‘toot’ instead.”
Few people understand the terms flatulence or passing gas, and almost everyone knows fart. Does that make [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 26th, 2009 at 5:39 pm and is filed under Digestive System, Food. 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.

Forty million Americans suffer from migraine headaches, mostly women. Migraine affliction peaks by age 40. What is migraine disorder? You need at least five headaches lasting 4-72 hours associated with nausea/vomiting or photophobia (lights hurt your eyes– kind of like staring at the sun) or phonophobia (sounds hurt your ears– kind of like listening [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 26th, 2009 at 5:23 pm and is filed under Neurologic, Pain, Video. 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.

MRSA is Methacillian Resistant Staph Aureus, aka Superbug. MRSA is resistant to many antibiotics. MRSA caused over 94,000 life-threatening infections in 2005

The Grapes of Wrath is one of my favorite books of all time. Unbelievably, as slow a reader as I was, I finished the book in three days during my summer vacation [...]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 5:45 pm and is filed under Infections, Video. 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.

Joan Rivers says she’s had so much plastic surgery that when she dies, she’ll donate her body to Tupperware. You can laugh at her, as well as at her book, Men Are Stupid…And They Like Big Boobs: A Woman’s Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery.
However, she has a point: people are cruel when it [...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 9:31 am and is filed under Dermatology, Plastic Surgery, 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.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a breakdown of the nervous system. MS afflicts over 350,000 Americans. MS is #1 cause of disability in young adults that isn’t trauma
I have an impostor. Yes, I knew after achieving a certain level of fame (I wish!) that I would eventually have an impostor. What next, a stalker? [...]

This entry was posted on Monday, July 13th, 2009 at 4:46 pm and is filed under Neurologic, Video. 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.

Mountain biking is exhilarating, moving, and fun. I am also the world’s slowest mountain biker. Lance Armstrong should present me an award for this. While I believe in pushing myself physically, I have my limitations. I don’t like looking like road-kill on the side of a bike path.
We’d never been to Lake Tahoe [...]

This entry was posted on Friday, July 10th, 2009 at 6:52 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular, Emergencies, Pulmonary. 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.

Mumps outbreaks were common in the late winter-early spring. Mumps usually lasts 7-10 days. Mumps in the testicle(s) become swollen, red, and hurt. Mumps starts as flu-like symptoms
Pinching cheeks should be a felony. “Oh, child! You are soooo cute!” Pinch! Ouch! (Note to self: punish lady who just pinched salivary gland out [...]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 5:01 pm and is filed under Infections, Video. 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.

Choir performances were always nerve-wracking for me when I was growing up, but in ninth grade we actually had something fun to do in a performance. We clapped our hands and stomped our feet, like a choo-choo-zam-bing! The risers were shaking as we did that, and suddenly the girl in front of me was [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 2:58 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular. 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.

Munchausen syndrome is the most extreme form of factitious disorder. Munchausen’s want attention from the medical community. Munchausen by proxy makes other sick
“Fake it ‘til you make it!” I think we all fake certain things. We tell a happy mom her baby’s cute, even if it looks like a larva. We [...]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 6:26 pm and is filed under Psych, Video. 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.