On tedium
Writing posts like this one is why I bother with a pseudonym. Flimsy as it may be, it allows me to engage in the occasional screed with slightly less worry that the Hammer of Doom will descend upon me. Before… Continue Reading
medicine
Thoughts on women, medicine and me
Rose’s latest post got me thinking about the culture of medicine, and how it may have changed as the result of more women entering the field. Though I am not a woman myself (as my gravatar can attest, though perhaps… Continue Reading
NG tubes, fad diets, and parents of tubies
So, the tubie parent community is fighting a two-front war! I was going to take a break from special needs blogging, but when it’s timely, it’s timely. To catch you up on the lingo,”tubies” are what some parents of tube-fed… Continue Reading
On feelings
The patient’s blood culture results were positive. I had misread them, and reported them on rounds as having been negative. It could have been bad. Thankfully, I must have sounded kind of shaky on the details, and the attending physician… Continue Reading
Yet more on unnecessary testing
From the New York Times: In a move likely to alter treatment standards in hospitals and doctors’ offices nationwide, a group of nine medical specialty boards plans to recommend on Wednesday that doctors perform 45 common tests and procedures less… Continue Reading
My own experience of being gay in medicine
Yesterday Andrew Sullivan linked to an item at WBUR’s Common Health blog, in which Dr. Mark Schuster, a tenured professor and pediatrician at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital tells his story of being a gay man entering the medical… Continue Reading