The sad thing is that around here, this thing might actually work!
Archive for January, 2009
Saw this story when reading the news this morning.
It’s a story that I couldn’t help smiling at. Basically it talks about all the hanky panky that is going on at The Villages.
To those who have never heard of The Villages, it is basically a gigantic gated retirement community in Florida, where wealthy older folks can spend their golden years hanging out by the pool, golfing, and apparently, according to this story, engaging in all sorts of lascivious behavior. And why the heck shouldn’t they???
Dr. Sam says “Good for you Granny!”
Anyway, the story immediately made me think of this video that was making it’s rounds on the interwebs a few months ago.
Glad to know we have such sober leadership taking over in D.C.
Interesting article here.
In a nutshell, it’s an article about a recent development in the enchanted land of The Great White North.
Apparently our friends in The People’s Republic of Cannuckistan passed a law that basically says that airlines can’t charge an extra fare on domestic flights for passengers who require an extra seat because they need to be accompanied by a personal attendant due to a medical condition, or for folks whose butts are too big to fit in a regular airline seat. This new law is affectionately known as the “One-Person, One-Fare” rule.
This left the airlines in a bit of a quandry. How to determine who qualifies for a free second seat due to their obesity?
They basically had three choices. Continue reading ‘Eh, Canada, Hate to Butt In, Butt….’
Saw an interesting blurb on the internet this morning about a French physician who claims that Baclofen, which is a drug normally used to treat folks with spastic muscle disorders, was able to cure him of his addiction to alcohol.
Here’s a link to a brief story on it.
It would be nice if subsequent research shows this to be of benefit.
Drug addiction is a terrible thing that tears people’s lives apart.
Hmmmmmm……..I wonder if Baclofen could help eliminate my craving for junk food?????
Story here
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Interesting story here
So local law enforcement here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast wants to get a law passed authorizing all sorts of non-physicians to institute a 72 hour medical hold on any person that they “think” is mentally ill.
The folks they would propose giving this authority to would include cops, park rangers, border patrol agents, and social workers. I’m not sure if they will also include the guy who waits on me at the Taco Bell drive thru, but I don’t see why not. He’s got about as much medical education and qualification as a lot of the aforementioned folks, I reckon.
No need to get the doctors involved any longer! Yippeeee!!!!
I guess these morons are under the false assumption that all a doctor does when he institutes a 72 hour hold is lock the person in a room and “observe” them. Continue reading ‘No Shortage of Stupid Ideas Out There’
So I was out walking in the cold early this morning in my never-ending Battle of the Bulge, when an idea occurred to me. Amongst all the heated debate on healthcare reform over the past few years, one thing I have consistently heard from multiple sources is a call for greater implementation of electronic health records.
As a physician, I have heard many folks not involved in providing healthcare decry physicians for not embracing this great panacea, as though a profession which typically dwells on the cutting edge of technological achievement when it comes to diagnostic and therapeutic modalities is for some mysterious reason determined to remain total luddites when it comes to maintaining records of their patients. Continue reading ‘About Electronic Health Records’
I had a patient today tell me that he actually read fully my posts about weight loss and was putting the stuff there into action.
He even downloaded a program called Lose It for his iPhone that was helping him keep track of calories and weight.
I don’t own an iPhone, but he showed me his and the program looks pretty cool.
So far (only a couple weeks) he’s loosing weight right on track.
That was pretty gratifying.
Thanks, dude!
