meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

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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?  

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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!

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STS, FTW!

Finally in 2012 after the Fat Lady sung I saw the Space Shuttle – by sheer chance the 747 carrying Endeavor flew by directly over the house, and super low. Pretty impressive but amazingly...