Fuck you, Andrew Wakefield. And Jenny McCarthy too, while we're at it. I’ve blogged about this before, but every so often, this particular rage bubble boils back to the surface like a poorly treated infection. And I get it—truly, I do. Finding out your child is autistic is life-altering. It brings …
Continue reading The Real Epidemic: Bullshit in a Lab Coat
An article in The Atlantic spends a horrible tale of how a doctor in an emergency room in Brooklyn failed to take a woman’s abdominal pain seriously. It is, of course, told from the patient’s husband’s point of view; however, a lot of what he says is very real in emergency medicine and other medicine …
Do you ever feel that way? Like you are shouting, and you don’t even hear your echo? Well, welcome to me on this topic about medication errors and the Vanderbilt Nurse, RaDonda Vaught. Ok, what the actual hell is going on here? Why is she being charged with murder? The whole NPR article is here: …
You would think that most folks in the medical profession do this without question and most do, yes Karen even when they say it will only hurt a bit, and it ends up hurting like hell. We all have different Ideas of pain, get over it. This is not the do no harm I am …
