Famous deaths — would modern medical technology have been able to save the victims? A doctor in Montana offers his opinion: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, James Garfield and William McKinley would have made it. Robert Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln would probably… Continue Reading
I felt about 70% of normal this morning, so I went to work. Still sniffling, sneezing, and coughing. You don’t think about it much when you don’t have to do it, but it seems to take literally every muscle in… Continue Reading
You know those juice boxes? The ones that have just the right amount of juice in them and are handy when you’re sick because you can just grab one and sip on it while you’re trying to comply with the… Continue Reading
Back then, sleeping through this cough would have been a snap:
No one admires you when you’re sick and show how dedicated you are to your work by showing up at the office and working through your illness. Their reaction is always, “Dude! I don’t want what you’ve got. Go home!”… Continue Reading
I didn’t enjoy reading this. But if that guy made it through the procedure, so can I. I’m scheduled for two weeks from yesterday. I’ll get through it, though, and now I know that I need to shave. Hat tip:… Continue Reading
I’m normally often irritated by news coverage of medical studies. Medical studies suggest all sorts of things, most of them contradictory, and they are just studies. They constitute part of the massive project of assembling data used to evaluate various… Continue Reading
In a bleak but interesting post, Uncredible Hallq muses that aging and cancer are inextricably intertwined. You might not get cancer, but if you don’t, your cells will apoptosize, and you will age, which will result in your death. But… Continue Reading
Shaving in a hurry is a bad idea. I cut my lower lip yesterday while shaving in a hurry; it was exquisitely painful (on par with the kidney stone) and the wound bled for more than an hour and there’s… Continue Reading
I don’t like it. It dulls the pain, which is nice because then I don’t have to feel it. And the pain can be distracting, at best. But I also don’t know very well whether I actually still have a… Continue Reading