Send in the gowns
Oh, frabjous day! An awards show impends!! I am a fool for awards shows, or at least the ones that pretend to reward real merit. (I don’t care what “the people” like, or what appeals to the tastes of teenagers. … Continue Reading
Month: July 2011
Frivolity!*
Jaybird has a dream. I live to serve. *If I’m going to engage in foolish joshing, I may as well resort to outright thievery.
In which I am uncharacteristically Zen
I listen to a lot of NPR. This is largely due to an unalloyed loathing of most of the music in vogue right now, as well as the brain-melting blather sprinkled between the computer-generated “songs.” (I have also caught myself… Continue Reading
Stupid Tuesday Questions, Deluxe Edition edition
Remember back in the day, when men shaved with a razor that had only one blade? Well, I don’t either. By the time my adolescent self had even the barest need to shave, the Gilette Sensor had already been on… Continue Reading
Makes “Brooklyn” look like “Lucille”
God bless Posh Spice. N.B. a recent Stupid Tuesday Question, it looks like she’s done it again.
Screening for jerks
It is a truth universally acknowledged that doctors can be schmucks. For a profession that deals so directly with people, particularly people at their most vulnerable, we can be surprisingly bad at playing well with others. The god complex has… Continue Reading
Who needs a life?
A few years ago, I attended a medical staff meeting at the hospital that employed me at the time. These meetings weren’t particularly high on my list of things I loved about the job, and often involved discussions that didn’t… Continue Reading
Like a frat, without the keggers
In the interest of full disclosure, I should admit at the outset that I don’t have any basis for comparing anything to fraternity hazing. I wasn’t in a fraternity, so any impression of what pledges go through to join is… Continue Reading
Hi, my name is Russell. Today’s special is Vyvanse.
I would love to believe that, as a physician, the only thing that influences my choice of treatment for my patients is the science that supports it. Despite the cajoling and back-slapping and free chazerai that festoons my office, I… Continue Reading