Candid Medical Musings and How-To's for Everyone
A good friend recently called me from his honeymoon in Hawaii. He had convinced his new wife to try surfing for the first time. While she crushed some gnarly waves, she had a bit of run in with some coral. Supposedly her leg was burning hotter than Beelzebub’s fires. Was recommending my friend pee on his new BFF and partner in life actually helpful or just a great practical joke?
On July 3rd, 2015 a new law co-authored by a Silicon Valley company came into effect. The law allows consumers to order their own lab tests without involving a doctor in the state of Arizona. Is this a game changer?
A recent study finds that performing basic cognitive tasks while biking makes participants bike 25% faster. Will the the next Tour de France riders be multitasking their way to glory?
Summer is upon us. So I thought this would be an appropriate post.
While some of you may not need this post, I suck at fishing. I am about as graceful casting with a fly rod as a bull in a china store. (Henry says no one has been to a china store since 1900. Maybe a bull in a Chihuly glass art exhibit is a more hip/modern metaphore?) Anyways, point is, I get a lot of fish hooks stuck in my hand.
If you can’t just pull the thing out (which sometimes you can), the problem is that the barb on the end of the hook is doing its job.
After a recent New York Times article on the amazing benefits of coffee, this article my friend and colleague Emergency Physician Dr. Michael Miller sent me by Shimamoto et al made me more excited than the last Game of Thrones season premiere. But is it true?
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