Crack is Whack
Just another emergency call night: States cameras in house and being poisoned by walls. States weakness and cp. taking crack for pain and energy without relief No relief even with crack? What is the...
Author: mike
More Reasons Why Overnight Call and Night Float Sucks
Animals exposed to the aberrant light cycle maintain daily corticosterone rhythms, but the overall levels of corticosterone are increased. Despite normal circadian and sleep structures, these animals show increased depression-like behaviours and impaired hippocampal...
The Polychoron Instinct
Today we’re heading back from daycare and Brenna points at a STOP traffic sign and says, simply and clearly: “Octagon!” She’s two-and-a-half. Where does this stuff come from?
Emergency Pimple Care
One of the reasons why US healthcare costs are so ridiculously high for such middling outcomes are because so many people have such poor access to primary care, they remain unsure of what constitutes...
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...
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!
Romney Woos the Woo Brigade
Romney reaches out to the Chronic Lyme conspiracists…