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!”
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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
trail tales
My brother Nick, 11 months my junior, loves to hunt, and is quite good at it While I enjoy the product of his efforts, I myself was never able to take on the woods, armed, with any enthusiasm. I discharged a few firearms in the woods in my teens, but like John Prine sang “emptyContinue reading “trail tales”
ein prächtiges Pissoir
I hadn’t discovered blogging yet in June 2016 as Kathy and I were cruising down the Danube from Nurenburg to Budapest on the Viking Alta, but I still occasionally wrote things down for my own amusement. I found one sight at our third stop particularly inspiring. I came across the record in my leisure andContinue reading “ein prächtiges Pissoir”
commandments
My oldest brother Nick, 11 months my junior, posted this item on his Facebook page 2 days ago. I just saw it this morning. I thought it was too good not to share.
gotta die from something II
My last post, which featured findings from a study by Professor Geneveive Briand of Johns Hopkins analyzing deaths from all causes in our year of COVID, finding that while deaths attributed to COVID were up, deaths from other causes, like cancer and heart disease, were down so in the end it was sort of aContinue reading “gotta die from something II”
gotta die from something
We’re into the 10th month of this COVID thing. Early on, I discovered the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Research Center site https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/. For a long time, I’d check it daily with the fervor of a sports nut looking up ESPN for the scores. Not so much the last couple months, so I missed last Sunday’s, whichContinue reading “gotta die from something”
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