There is nothing like getting up in the morning and reading the latest medical pronouncements from a government bureaucrat whose greatest accomplishment in life is deciding between Lucky Charms or Coco Puffs for breakfast. That is how I felt the other morning when I read about the government's new "suggestions" regarding mammograms and Pap smears. As a service to patients and friends, I am putting out this special ...
September 08, 2009
Great Reading!!
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We are all students, whether we are returning to high school or taking an adult education course in the evenings. Of course not all learning is in a formal setting like the classroom. Most of us continue to soak up knowledge from life experience, smart friends, or good books. I have recently come across several manuscripts that are not only interesting reading but also provide excellent medical advice. Specifically ...
May 28, 2009
Men make horrible patients. Men doctors make even worse patients. Men doctors who are wimpy about pain make inexcusably, embarrassingly horrible patients. I can say this with both authority and confidence as I am all of those things. Case in point: I turned fifty not so very long ago and my perpetually helpful wife reminded me that a stroll down colonoscopy lane was in my near future. I realize this is an absolutely ...
April 21, 2009
We hear a great deal today about health care reform. The pundits and politicians are bantering about like hens in a hen house clucking about this plan and that reform. It is politically and philosophically prudent to be on the side of some type of change in the health care system. No one disagrees that the system is unsustainable in its present configuration. I concur that the situation is dire, the patient is in ...
February 18, 2009
REST,REVIVE,RENEW
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A Day in the Life of a Mom (with a few of my own embellishments)6:30 AM Get up to the alarm clock playing Bachman Turner Overdrive’s “Taking Care of Business”. 6:50 Wake up teenage children; wear thick skin to deflect complaints.7:00 Eat breakfast, Pop Tart for me, anything they will accept that has less than 500 calories for them.7:30 Drive car pool, consider home ...
January 03, 2009
Ten Commandments
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Ten Commandments of Good Health Many years ago a desert dweller climbed a mountain and talked to a bush on fire. What resulted was a set of laws that was to revolutionize mankind’s behavior. These were not ten suggestions formulated by a long range planning committee nor were they ten proposals put forth by a strategic consultant, they were commandments from a Holy God. These laws have become almost universally ...
