Leeches, Stat!
Had a hunch, ran some iron studies on a patient with some atypical psychotic features (and smearing poop everywhere!) They are positive for iron overload… hemochromatosis. Now my plan to order leeches (stat!) to...
Monthly Archive: October 2012
US Congressman Paul Broun Practiced Medicine Without a License
So, confirmed dingbat, Science Denier and Chairman of the US Congress’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology, recently said that such things as embryology, evolution and astrophysics such as...
It’s About the Dilaudid
So when a nurse calls you for a patient request and begins with “It’s about the Dilaudid” you generally expect the conversation to go one way. I was therefore so surprised that a patient...
Hardcore, You Know the Score
Just read Greg Egan’s “The Clockwork Rocket” – most audacious hard SF book in years. Alt universe where, as far as I can tell, the space-time metric has been rejigged into some kind of...
Finally a Grown Up
Teenage girls from the high school down the road are sitting on the front garden wall smoking cigarettes. Finally I get to legitimately say DAMN KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!