Nicole Kidman is amazing in The Hours, the role that earned her an Academy Award. From the haunting music of Philip Glass to the fake nose on Kidman, Hours provides a powerful look into the day of a life. I find it ironic that in the movie Meryl Streep (the best actress ever–in […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 at 8:47 am and is filed under Pulmonary, 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.

Dark Side of the Moon is my favorite album– though I hate saying something is my “favorite” because I have 1,000 favorites of everything. (I’m so open-minded!) I was discouraged from listening to rock-n-roll music growing up, so I didn’t hear of Pink Floyd until I was a freshman at Denison University.
Someone in physics class […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 26th, 2006 at 12:06 pm and is filed under 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.

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 […]

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 5th, 2006 at 2:58 pm and is filed under Drugs & Alcohol, Pulmonary, Health & Wellness. 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.

“Okay, name this tune in four notes: “Da Da Daaaaaaaaaa-DUH!” (I need to ask my editor to work on making The Hook like one of those Hallmark cards that plays music when you open it.) A book of trivia in our waiting room has a ton of great info on the 1960s TV comedy Get […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 30th, 2006 at 12:28 pm and is filed under Medicines, 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.

I have never seen the opera La Boheme, but I hear the diva dies of tuberculosis. Does Mimi sing her final aria with coughing between high C’s: “La, la… cough, cough, laaaaaa-phlegm, laaaaaa, hack”?
I don’t think Puccini would have written his opera that way. It would sound more like the Guys & Dolls song “Adelaide’s […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2005 at 3:30 pm and is filed under Pulmonary, 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.

Grandma Walton said something like, “If God intended people to smoke, He would have put chimney tops on our heads.”
I don’t remember much about The Waltons, but I do remember that phrase, because smoking is one of the worst things you can do to yourself. What about other people? Second-hand smoke is still being […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 16th, 2004 at 12:30 pm and is filed under Drugs & Alcohol, Pulmonary, Health & Wellness. 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.