Don’t Cough So Close to Me
The coronavirus outbreak is a serious, deadly thing, and it should be taken seriously. All the more reason to have fun with it … because if you can’t laugh, the virus has already won. So […]
Tag: medical humor
Butt, it’s research!
After close to a year of weekly blogging, I can say that I’ve learned some interesting things. Like when I researched different names for the gluteus maximus, sometimes called the gluteal muscles, or glutes, for short. According […]
Hoosier Winters, On the Nose
We like our traditions here in northern Indiana: For instance, it’s traditional for us to get sick every fall and winter. All of us. I’m as traditional as the next guy, assuming the next guy […]
Boob Rash: A Silent Disease that only killed women until fat men got it
Every year in the United States women are ignored for any health related afflictions that can be chalked up to ‘womanly problems’. Outside confirmed cases of breast or reproductive cancer, anything that doesn’t require anesthesia […]
Minimally Invasive, So They Say
When the specialist told me he wanted to do a sinusotomy I thought he said sinusodomy. “You call that minimally invasive? It’s great that you don’t have to cut through the skin, but you didn’t […]
A Weak Stream
I encountered two unusual side effects to prednisone this week: frequent urination, and extreme muscle weakness. If you think about it, those are not two symptoms you want to have at the same time. I […]
The ER Protocol
This story has a happy ending. But the way it starts is that about 20 years ago as I was driving my crying mother home from visiting my youngest brother in a mental hospital the […]
N’Ode to a Spider or How Two Political Parties and the TARDIS Joined Forces
A few days ago I was bitten on the side of the neck by a spider. It became inflamed and warranted a trip to the local medical facility. It also infected the lymph node behind […]