Buried in my old blogs is a post where I wax on about my career in Rheumatology https://wordpress.com/post/theviewfromharbal.com/470. Even though I haven’t seen a patient for over 2 years, I still write for and publish in the medical literature about the things that held my passion. Way back in May I submitted my 4,066 wordsContinue reading “Oxford”
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dandy dozen
Merry Christmas to all my friends and whomever happens to stumble on this site! It’s morning as I write this. No presents yet, not even breakfast. Kathy and I sit by the fire, excerpts from the Messiah playing, sipping our orange-juice free mimosas. The nature of the crisis at hand hit me early. Kathy andContinue reading “dandy dozen”
masks, again
Ah-choo!
If somebody near you does that, should you be concerned? Sure, sick people expel the virus that’s making them sick through body fluids forcibly propelled outward. You can see a graphic demonstration of that phenomenon here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mnC43QRsuM I think most of us saw the brief video of one extreme response to something like this backContinue reading “Ah-choo!”
Thank you, Jeff Bezos
Another little box landed on my doorstep today, this time with 16 oz of currants plus a pop up laundry basket I was sure I needed to bring some order to my laundry room. Lord knows how many things have come to me via Amazon, well I guess you could go to my “orders” onContinue reading “Thank you, Jeff Bezos”
dirty!
Our cleanliness is killing us. Prof.Carlin alluded to this a couple of posts ago https://wordpress.com/post/theviewfromharbal.com/881. I came across this twitter on the subject and had to share it, even if this is my 3rd post of the day Once it stops flashing, you can see what I’m talking about. Would be a heck of aContinue reading “dirty!”
AMA caves on Plaquenil
The AMA ain’t what it used to be. Most docs, yours truly included, have had full and fulfilling careers without paying for an AMA card. Yet, what the organization says still carries some weight, so when they added their heft to the anti-Plaquenil for COVID movement when it first looked like there might be somethingContinue reading “AMA caves on Plaquenil”
Excess death
As if the raw data from the pandemic weren’t bad enough, the numbers can be crunched to produce even more depressing stats. One such measure comes from the concept of “excess deaths”. Presumably in any country the number of people who die off each year should be about the same year-to-year. Not so for ourContinue reading “Excess death”
Third phase
From the day I stepped into kindergarten to the day I was handed my M.D. degree was 22 years. I started to get a small paycheck for six years I spent in training, so nearly 3 decades passed before I was ripe enough to be trusted with real patients and to begin to teach othersContinue reading “Third phase”
Prof. Carlin
He left us over 12 years ago, but not before leaving many lessons for us, including this one, so pertinent to our times. Trigger warning: some profanity. Bigger trigger warning: much truth
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