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 …
Month: January 2019
The most wonderful time of the year?
From the drafty hospital home to my drafty castle and face first into my coffin…Oy the crick in my neck. Holidays are tough in the hospital. If there is a time that anyone wants to be there less, I can’t think of it. Last night, I was called to evaluate a depressed/suicidal person. All the …
Gardasil
Your kids are already fucking, stop blaming a vaccine. (this uses profanity for a point) Look, nothing gets under my skin more than the excuses people use to not vaccinate themselves or their children. We have entire movements in this country that do nothing more than scream, “It’s about the children.” Well, Nursie poo …
Why you get a flu shot
So this piece comes from NPR. When people tell you that the flu is nothing, Here is the perspective one person. "I figured [the flu] was something that's dangerous to the elderly and the young, not somebody who is healthy and in their 30s," says Hinderliter, who is 39 and the director of government affairs …