Tweens. You gotta love them? Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Taylor Lautner and all their young friends who’ve infiltrated my aging world. They’re all so wholesome and pure. Why the Jonas Brothers don’t even believe in premarital sex.
That’s why it broke my old heart to learn that pot and pills used to treat ADHD have surpassed smoking cigarettes [...]
This week has been insanely busy for me. I don’t know if it’s the holiday rush or every is loosing their minds.
Today a patient came in and said, “I went to a bdsm party, and now I have diarrhea.”
“Wait,” I interrupted. “What is a bdsm party?”
He smiled, revealing a mouth full of metal, and said, “You know [...]
Last week a patient came in with complaints of a very itchy rash on his torso and arms. He was alarmed because several of his friends had the same suspicious rash. Interestingly, they were all my patients. The first one came in last Monday. After examining him, I diagnosed him with Scabies or what is [...]
“Doctor can you please help me with a wart?”
How many times have I heard that, I ask myself.
Warts, particularly genital warts, plague certain unlucky individuals. Unlucky I say because transmission is through contact via one of the hundreds of subtypes of the human papilloma virus or HPV that can coalesce on the skin and appear as [...]
This is a true story.
I went to the grocery store last night to buy food to make dinner. At the check out counter, a young, African-American girl smiles as she processes my groceries and says, “Hi.” So I return the greeting and smile back. Meanwhile an Asian woman begins to place her food down on [...]
Okay, so I watched it.
Don’t act stupid.
You know you watched it too. I’m talking about the new reality show on MTV called Jersey Shore, which is about a group of young Italian- American boys and girls from New York and New Jersey, who spend the entire summer in Seaside Heights, New Jersey at a shore house.
Chad and I watched [...]
Alexa Ray Joel, the daughter of pop star Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley, was brought to the hospital by emergency services after taking eight pills at her Manhattan apartment.
A friend frantically called 911 from the singer’s Greenwich Village apartment saying Joel, 23, had taken several pills. It wasn’t clear whether she had accidentally overdosed or attempted suicide.
The [...]
This month I am the ward Attending at St. Vincent’s Hospital. The ward Attending is just like it is on TV. Pick a show: ER, Grey’s Anatomy, or more like Nurse Jackie. I am the doctor in charge, overseeing a resident and two interns. We meet each morning at ten o’clock and round on the [...]
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Set in San Francisco where I attended the International Conference on Antimicrobials and Chemotherapeutics
Each year, December 1st is the day set aside to remember those we have lost to the pandemic and to think toward the future as we continue to battle this deadly disease.
AIDS has taken the lives of 25 million people and 33 million more are estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS around the world today.
As the rates of [...]
