Living with a Daily Monster

Life with a chronic illness is both exhausting and terrifying. I never know if my counts will suddenly drop and I’ll progress to AIDs or if I’ll catch a preventable disease since Karen left her devil spawn unvaccinated because of Jebus or that McCarthy hoochie and the band of idiots about Autism. It's a world …

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Just say no

Or why everyone relapses   As always, a patient presents to the ER with a dependence on prescription drugs. In the workup of the patient, I found the usual pattern with opiate prescribing. Use over time creates tolerance and starts an increased need for medication. In the current prescribing climate, we want the person to …

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