Freezer burn is a tradition in every household. We visited a friend’s mother-in-law’s house a while back. There was a huge freezer in the basement, and I thought about all the shows and movies where people hide a dead body in the freezer. So as a joke I opened it up, ready to pretend [...]
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Chest pains: yes, certain things give me chest pains. People who don’t put their shopping cart away! Grocery stores should handcuff the cart to such patrons and un-handcuff them when they return the cart. Litter bugs! Can’t you put your cigarette in your ashtray for proper disposal later? The highway is not a [...]
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on Thursday, December 31st, 2009 at 1:04 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular, Emergencies, Video.
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When I was a child in New York City, my parents actually belonged to a country club. I remember these ladies with B-52 beehive hairdos in their swimsuits lying on the pool chairs. It was from these ladies that I learned the sidestroke.
Here’s how it works. The ladies would dip their polished toenails [...]
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 [...]
Kiefer Sutherland’s TV hit, 24, is truly whacked– as in whack everyone in the head. I’ve never seen so many people knocked out in any show. It’s so medically unrealistic: they’re all clearly suffering concussions, yet they function at a high level when they regain consciousness. But then again, Jack Bauer has died twice [...]
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on Saturday, February 14th, 2009 at 3:18 pm and is filed under Emergencies, Neurologic, Pain.
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Chest pains: yes, certain things give me chest pains. People who don’t put their shopping cart away! Grocery stores should handcuff the cart to such patrons and un-handcuff them when they return the cart. Litter bugs! Can’t you put your cigarette in your ashtray for proper disposal later? The highway is not a garbage [...]
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on Friday, August 29th, 2008 at 5:59 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular, Emergencies.
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Do you have a lead foot? My brother and I learned to drive in rural Ohio from parents who used to drive in New York City. So we didn’t have just lead in our feet. We had lead, uranium, titanium, and Rush Limbaugh’s gigantically obscene belly in our feet. Imagine the terror we created on [...]
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on Thursday, November 23rd, 2006 at 11:46 am and is filed under Blood, Emergencies, Toxins.
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Jessica Simpson– you either love her or hate her. I think she’s okay– but come on! You and I both know she knows what “Chicken of the Sea” is. On her reality show, she was so dumb-dumb pretending she didn’t know it was tuna fish. She and Nick, her ex-hubbie (by the way, I think [...]
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on Monday, July 10th, 2006 at 4:54 pm and is filed under Allergies, Emergencies, Toxins.
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Sweat– or is it perspire? According to the dictionary, both verbs sweat and perspire mean “To excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin.” Proper Brits know “Horses sweat; men perspire; but ladies glow.” Judy Garland didn’t know about glow. She said, “I wish I could just perspire. Unfortunately, I sweat!” Tina Turner sweats so [...]
Jessica Simpson– you either love her or hate her. I think she’s okay– but come on! You and I both know she knows what “Chicken of the Sea” is. On her reality show, she was so dumb-dumb pretending she didn’t know it was tuna fish. She and Nick, her ex-hubbie (by the way, I think [...]
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on Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 at 2:48 pm and is filed under Allergies, Emergencies, Injuries.
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“High on a hill a lonely goatherd, Lay ee odl lay ee old lay hee hoo!”
I love The Sound of Music. I have even been on The Sound of Music tour in Salzburg, Austria– twice! But you know what? I love every song except… “The Lonely Goatherd.” Now the puppets are great to watch, but [...]
Some people faint at the sight of blood, which I don’t quite understand because we all bleed– some more than others (especially drama queens). Remember the Saturday Night Live skit* on Julia Child?
It’s amazing any of us are alive. I’m studying for my 10-year re-certification for the internal medicine boards. I reviewed the blood [...]
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Very few things shock me. Sexual issues, alcohol and drug abuse, psychiatric issues, people’s lifestylesnot shocking. Sticking a bobby pin in an electrical outlet, current politicsshocking. Health insurance and the way people put their health second to it really shocks me.
Is the health insurance industry turning us into robots?
When I worked in DC, [...]
Jan Egeland, the United Nations undersecretary for humanitarian affairs says, “Natural disasters affect at least seven times more people than conflicts.” I don’t know if that is statistically valid, but look around the world. Right now, Louisiana and Mississippi are in trouble. Big trouble.
After September 11, 2001, we might have hoped this country would [...]
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on Thursday, September 8th, 2005 at 11:38 am and is filed under Emergencies, Injuries.
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When I was a child in New York City, my parents actually belonged to a country club. I remember these ladies with B-52 beehive hairdos in their swimsuits lying on the pool chairs. It was from these ladies that I learned the sidestroke.
Here’s how it works. The ladies would dip their polished toenails [...]
One of my favorite movies is Something’s Gotta Give with Diane Keaton. Why did she show up at the Oscars wearing her Annie Hall outfit? That is so ’70s, and she didn’t win the Oscar again in that outfit.
Anyway, Keaton’s young daughter is dating old Jack Nicholson. While “fooling around” Nicholson starts to have [...]
Last year I went on my first cruise, and it was truly paradise! The sun was shining in the Caribbean, a band was playing by the outdoor pools, a man greeted us with Bahama Mamas, and the ship was filled with anticipation.
I expected Julie McCoy and Captain Steubing (from that 1970s cheesefest known [...]
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on Thursday, June 9th, 2005 at 12:16 pm and is filed under Emergencies, Neurologic.
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