Wisdom from a 12 year-old Cancer patient |
People often think working with kids with cancer is a sad, depressing experience. Quite the contrary, working with these kids is liberating and humbling. Rarely do you see a kid mumbling about ho...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:55:00 GMT |
Chemotherapy: Pick Your Poison |
Chemotherapy is a contradiction: it can save your life, but can also kill you. The medicine itself is bizarre; the way it works quite creative. I have heard of people avoiding chemo to seek alter...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:53:00 GMT |
Didnt you know, Farmer John makes the best pork baby formula!! |
The other night I admitted a 1.5 year-old baby with Russian parents. Their baby was cute as a bug, but since bugs are really quite primitive invertebrate scavengers, I guess I should say the baby ...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:33:00 GMT |
Diabetes+Sugar=Hyperglycemia! Doh!! |
Occasionally the kids I work with in the hospital make me remember how much fun my job can be. One day I was working with a rambunctious, outgoing Russian kid named *Vitaley*, who had come in with a ...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:12:00 GMT |
Fun with the Fraudulent Program AWOLA |
I am relatively naive when it comes to computers (okay, I'm a complete idiot). I often forget to research new software on Google before I buy it. So one night this little bal...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:12:00 GMT |
My Encounter with Road Rage! |
I was minding my own business sitting at a red light at an intersection in downtown Roseville when road rage spilled a little darkness into my afternoon. I was blasting...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:18:00 GMT |
Gallstones--disgusting biliary nuggets or erotic overture? |
I admitted a 14 year-old girl with gallstones last night. A gallstone is either made of hyper-concentrated cholesterol or calcium in the gallbladder, which is a squirt gun tha...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:39:00 GMT |
MRSA--no, it doesnt stand for Moldy Rancid Sock Attack |
My most memorable encounter with that purulent little bacterium known as MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) occurred in the hospital when I was treating a nine...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:58:00 GMT |
Meningitis----Code Name: BRAIN EATER |
If the word meningitis sends a chill up your spine, then you are human and have a healthy fear of this potentially devastating infection. I recently saw a two year-old in the ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:34:00 GMT |
DUDE!! THEY TOOK OUT MY APPENDIX!! HUH? OH NEVER MIND, I DIDNT NEED IT ANYWAY! |
So your doctor tells you you're suffering from appendicitis. Most likely you've had some nasty right lower quadrant abdominal pain, possibly a fever, and maybe you b...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:34:00 GMT |
