The Doctor Is In

Sometimes you run across a situation which makes you laugh–not because it is inherently funny, but because of the element of surprise, irony, or unpredictability. This week I stumbled across just such wonderful revelation. Ever since my college years — when I was an aspiring guitarist and composer with far more dreams than talent — [...]

Due to a punishing weekend on call with attendant sleep deprivation, multiple computer meltdowns in the office (including my main PC for managing images and voice recognition), and a very busy week, I am seriously behind on my posts. Have a few things in the hopper for the near future, so stay tuned. In the [...]

In the past few months, I have delivered quite a bit of free care–by my estimation, nearly $15,000 worth. The type of care varied from routine office visits to major cancer surgery, from elective infertility treatments to reconstructive surgery and trauma. For me, this is not a problem, but a privilege–I have been blessed a [...]

I’ve been following in pained silence the saga of Medpundit and her transition to an EMR (electronic medical record). If it’s any comfort to her, I feel her pain. The computerization of medical records has been the Holy Grail of medicine for many years now, the answer to all manner of problems in health care [...]

OK, I was bored. Really bored. I rarely read print media any longer. Gone is the day when I used to devour every issue of Time or Newsweek, or the local paper. Even my Wall Street Journal tends to pile up, undisturbed, ready for recycling to save the Planet. Life is short, the news cycle [...]

One of the many reasons for moving to WordPress has been better control and more options on comments. There is a balance between ease of commenting (desirable) and control of spam and flamers, or abusive commenters. I’m going to leave things pretty freewheeling for now, and see how it goes. Some busy blogs are using [...]