January 2012
4 posts
Diet Soda Makes You Fat
Researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center recently presented strong data proving that diet soda makes us fat. They found that the more diet sodas a person drank, the more weight they gained. It doesn’t get much simpler than that. But it does get more serious than that. Overall, all soda drinkers (both sugar-sweetened and diet) gained weight compared to a control group that...
America's Strange Attitudes Toward Food →
Americans actually don’t eat that many more calories than other Western countries. But we pay a lot less for our food.
December 2011
3 posts
I had an 101 year old patient today. Also very cute.
How Doctors Die
It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be
by Ken Murray
Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could triple a patient’s...
November 2011
14 posts
I appreciate funny and politically relevant test...
I was doing some continuing medical education questions today about DVT prophylaxis, here is one of them:
“A 63 year old Wall street executive fell and broke his hip while running to get federal bail-out money. He underwent hip fracture surgery last night. He is obese (body mass index = 35) and has high cholesterol, diabetes mellitus type 2, and hypertension. Other than surgery and...
Here is a video I took of a bird in my supermarket
City Room: Police Force Wall Street Protesters Off... →
I witnessed this I will be posting pictures of it soon…
At least 20 were arrested as the police tried to keep demonstrators from marching up the courthouse steps at Foley Square, sweeping them away in mesh netting.
U.S. congressmen should have to dress like Nascar drivers and wear the logos of...
October 2011
13 posts
Ever notice that "Death" and "Hated" are anagrams?
Hello Stormagedon, it’s the Doctor…here to help. Sh sh sh sh...
– Dr. Who
September 2011
6 posts
I don’t eat enough because I am taking care of people who eat too much
I am half Zohan half Zoolander
9/11
Americans killed on 9/11: 2,977
American Troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan: 6,204
American contractors killed in Iraq and Afghanistan: 2,300
Foreign coalition forces killed in Iraq and Afghanistan: 1,192
Minimum number of Iraqi civilians killed while US presence in Iraq: 102,339
Money spent on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: 1.3 Trillion dollars
Total cost of 9/11 including physical...
August 2011
13 posts
World's Geekiest License Plates Slide Show →
Cashier at Trader Joe’s: Wow, you waited in that 20 minute line just for 3 apples and 2 kiwis?
Me: ya, they better be f**king good…