Things to Do in Your Office Chair
And here they are: 1) Do your taxes. 2) Check your investments. 3) Give to online charities. 4) Check messages from your doctors. 5) Write up a recipe for a new entree. 6) Go to […]
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What I Did Today
Destined to be pickles Woke up, got up, showed, and dressed. Go me, you little bundle of energy. Went to my office. I divided my time between making a recipe for Refrigerator Pickles, looking at […]
How I Gave Up Fomenting Revolution
It’s pretty much inevitable. If I have too much time on my hands, I will take to the streets and foment revolution. Law enforcement frowns on revolutionary acts. My neighbors wouldn’t like it; you should […]
The Ultimate Pill to Heal You or Kill You
One thing about getting older is that you tend to know about all the medications out there. For one thing, they get advertised on what many people would consider “old person” TV channels: Science, History, […]
MEDICINE COMMERCIALS
Medicine commercials are funny. They aren’t supposed to be funny, but they are. They almost always start in a bucolic-looking setting, with happy, smiling, healthy-looking people doing fun things. The voice-over announcer mentions the name […]
Before I Couldn’t Spell Ciprofloxacin … Well, I Still Can’t.
As we enter the second month of sinus infection, hope among CDC personnel of a cure is beginning to fade. Yes, I still have that same super-powered sinus infection I wrote about several weeks before–kind […]
My Labyrinthitis is acting up … whatever that is
I sat in shock as the doctor, his face somber, informed me that I had Acute Eustachian Salpingitis. Worse, it was accompanied by Labyrinthitis. You can imagine my reaction. Why me? Why now? What is […]
Meet Daniela V. Gitlin, MD Author of Practice, Practice, Practice: This Psychiatrist’s Life
HOPress-Shorehouse Books is so proud to release under our Corner Office Label, the first work from Daniela V. Gitlin MD, Practice, Practice, Practice: This Psychiatrist’s Life. Available as paperback and in […]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to My Surgery
The older I get, the more time I spend at ologists. You know – the dermatologist, cardiologist, urologist, gastroenterologist, colonoscopologist, and, for reasons I’m still a little fuzzy about, my geologist. Recently, I had to […]