The Doctor Is In

This is a sad day in our home–we’ve lost an old friend. Our fourteen-year-old Persian cat, Smokey, had to be put to sleep today. About one year ago, he began to develop some weakness in his hind legs. He was evaluated and found to have some lesions in his spinal cord, which were originally thought [...]

Neo-neocon ponders the origins and significance of the term “speaking truth to power”–so commonly heard from the left in recent years most recently from Dan Rather. Speaking of the media’s coverage of Katrina, Rather praised the coverage of Hurricane Katrina by the new generation of TV journalists and acknowledged that he would have liked to [...]

Building the catwalks for subsequent work on the cables.

I am not generally given to prognostication on this blog–except perhaps in the broad strokes which experience with human nature and things of the spirit allow one to anticipate. But this one seems a slam dunk, a prediction no savvie bookie would take odds on. You are about to witness an alien abduction: Cindy Sheehan [...]

I caught this over the weekend, and frankly was rather encouraged by it: On Thursday night President Bush spoke to the nation from my city. I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George W. Bush — in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 and 2004. But on Thursday night, [...]

My last post, riffing off a report that physicians may have euthanized some patients in a New Orleans hospital during Katrina caught a fair amount of heat for promoting a news story which was, in the eyes of some, an urban legend. One of my more–umm, hyperbolic admirers– has some choice words about my decision [...]

There have been growing numbers of stories about the heroism of rescuers and medical personnel, such as this one, who risked their lives and personal safety and comfort to rescue, comfort and evacuate often critically-ill patients in New Orleans. But not all the medical care was directed at saving and healing the sick, as this [...]

In an earlier post on Katrina and preparing for an emergency, a commenter asked an excellent question: As a doctor, what would you recommend [for an emergency medical kit] for usually healthy laymen? The answer: it depends. (don’t you just hate answers like that ?) But it does–it depends on a number of different things: [...]