Everyone should send beowabbit happy birthday wishes. And many hoppy returns of the day :-)

Examiner.com is apparently going through a major redesign/rework of their web presence. One of the effects this has had is to delay things being published. Apparently especially "first articles", I guess. The article I wrote to prove I was planning to has not yet appeared; the one I wrote second has. Find me at Read more... )

Some of you have heard my psychiatry rant. In short, it goes like this: Psychiatrists are not doctors, in the "physician" sense. They don't do any of the things I recognize as "being a doctor"; they don't examine patients or their pathologic equivalents (xrays, tissue slides, lab values-doctors do that stuff in some specialities and are still " ( Read more... )

I was recently elected to the board of the Alternatives to Marriage Project, an organization dedicated to the social and legal equality of all relationship styles. One of the duties of members of the board is, of course, fundraising. And so, I am doing some of that now. Via phone calls-traditionally the most successful form of fundraising ( Read more... )

So I've been reading Jeff Vogel's discussions about his first year or so of parenting. Much of it is amusing, in a "smile and nod" sort of way. And then there was this, on TV and movie "newborns":

First, the baby always comes out impossibly clean. Second, it comes out impossibly huge. Now, instead of "How cute!", I'm more likely to say something ( Read more... )

Meet Daniel Carlat, MD. He's a psychiatrist, or as I usually put it, another damned shrink ( Read more... )

So, there's a hospital in Red Bud IL that sees 4800 patients a year (for reference, the quietest hospital I've ever worked at saw 18,000 a year). It employs three physicians, and is looking for a fourth ( Read more... )

Oh, jeez. Just when you think you've heard it all, someone writes that there may be a planet-busting catastrophe in the Gulf from a giant natural fuel-air explosion. Look, linky

Which would be cool, in a movie, but as one commenter writes:
"I get questions about outlandish volcanic scenarios all the time and I try my best to remind people about ( Read more... )

I am so using this concept in future work. In this blog post, an ER doc answers the question of an ICU nurse who asks "Do you always assess everything about all patients who come to the ED ( Read more... )

You know, there's always some damn thing.

Apparently now, there's (wait for it...) Magic Power CoffeeJust when I think I've seen everything. Apparently an "herbal", "all natural" sexual stimulant, according to their (OMG multi-level marketing, be warned) website ( Read more... )