Amy Winehouse, Heath Ledger, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix–so many people have overdosed on drugs. In The Rose, Bette Midler’s character swallows pills like a hypoglycemic child in an M&M store, which leads to her death. Not that I would ever want to overdose on something, but if I did, it would be sushi, not drugs.
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This entry was posted on Sunday, September 25th, 2011 at 11:31 am and is filed under Medicines, 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.

Scratching posts are made for cats, but I think many humans would benefit from having one as well. Some people want to scratch out other people’s eyes (e.g. Nancy Grace–>Casey Anthony, gay people–>Michele Bachmann). Most of us scratch our heads at things like the government’s approach to the national deficit, the price of gasoline, and [...]

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 17th, 2011 at 6:31 pm and is filed under Dermatology, 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.

Ariel, the Little Mermaid, would probably win every Olympic gold medal in swimming. She’d blow Michael Phelps out of the water. Oh, wait, that tail might disqualify her from competition.
My cousin snorkeled for the first time in his life this year. He loved it in the shallow waters of the beach. So he decided to [...]

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 17th, 2011 at 6:14 pm and is filed under Emergencies, Injuries. 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.

TV news was my thing. When I first appeared regularly on D.C. news, I thought I was “da bomb.” It was just a matter of time for someone else to drop a bomb on me. A couple of years later in Charlottesville, Beth Duffy and I were itching to tell NBC29 viewers [...]

This entry was posted on Monday, September 5th, 2011 at 8:51 am and is filed under Allergies, Dermatology. 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.

Laura Linney is an amazing actress. LOVE HER! Ok, now I adore her in The Big C. In the first season, she has malignant melanoma that has riddled her body…but she doesn’t tell anyone! She figures she might as well enjoy life and not have anyone worry about her–including her [...]

This entry was posted on Monday, September 5th, 2011 at 8:35 am and is filed under Patient Behavior, author's viewpoint. 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.