So, my favorite 1am phone call for a patient with a sore throat, cough, of course nasal discharge which goes by the technical term, snot. The patient is miserable as I roll into the exam room, feeling way more no thrilled about this than I hope I was showing. Nice enough gentleman who was not …
Month: January 2019
Please don’t diagnose addiction…
Let me say this situation is the latest in a stream of crap that has rolled by me in my professional life. So tonight, a patient presented in the ER, that was reported to the ER physician by his wife and his bishop, as having a substance use problem. For those of you not in …
The podcast updates
I have started with the new podcast and kinda wanted to give an idea of the direction I am taking. If you have not done so already, you should listen to it. It is, of course, a work in progress and I am still learning what to do and not to do with the mixing …
Hangovers more reasons you don’t want one…
There are a lot of reasons that you do not want a hangover and the morning after drinking already leaves you feeling queasy, shaky, and even a little dehydrated. So more recent information shows that there are a lot of chemical imbalances that occur by introducing alcohol into your bloodstream. That’s pretty much duh, but …