Archive for July, 2006
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Global Cooling
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It’s July 22 in the sun belt and today the high was 85 degrees. I’m scared. The average temperature for my region on July 22 is 94 degrees. I think I’m seeing a trend. I’m afraid we may be entering a time of global cooling and that glacier’s may envelope my home within the next […]
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Forced Chemotherapy?
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Click on the title above to be directed to a story about a young man with Hodgkin’s disease who has been ordered to undergo chemotherapy. The gist, as I understand it, is that his parents wanted him to try ‘alternative therapies’ as his first experience with chemotherapy was not curative and was highly unpleasant.
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GSW
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GSW (gun-shot wound). It used to scare the hell out of me when I was a resident taking care of the trauma side of the ED. Really, taking care of GSW patients is not too hard for the emergency physician. You merely have to determine whether the patient has to have surgery or not… Now, […]
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How Do You Know She’s a Witch?
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Took care of a suicidal/homicidal witch the other day. This multiply pierced and tattooed woman had decided that she didn’t want to live anymore. She had a plan to walk onto the nearby military base with a gun and start blazing away (I didn’t ask why she didn’t use her wand). In the room to […]
