Death Returns From Holiday
This picture invariably brings tears to my eyes. It could be the logo, literally and metaphorically, for current health care policy.
MD Enshittification
Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. As some of you may be aware, I was an Infectious Disease (ID) physician for almost 40 years, retiring 3 years ago. My practice was almost entirely concerned with taking care of patients in several acute care hospitals. So...
Pet Acupuncture and Life
Traditional Inuit whale acupuncture.
Terrain in Vain
Now I got a job, but it don’t payI need health insurance, I need somewhere to stayBut without all of these things I can doBut without vaccines, I won’t make it throughBut you don’t understand my point of viewI suppose there’s nothing I can do I have been on a bit of a Clash binge of late. Truly one of the great...
AI (Acupunctures Inevitable) Slop
Years ago, when I was a mere lad using Word Perfect on MS DOS, it was 4 a.m. and I just finished the final draft of a grant proposal that was due to the next day. I spun around in my chair and managed to kick out the power cord. I was a Mac user then, but had to use a PC...
Tylenol Ramblings
This was an extremely difficult post to write. I live in war-ravaged Portland, Oregon, and it is like World War II here. Think Berlin at the end. Nothing but chaos, death and destruction. A burning hell hole. I sit in my cellar, the walls shaking from the brown bombs and artillery. Using the light from the burning house next door to see...
Natural History
It usually takes me several weeks to write these essays, in part because I am slow, and in part I have more to do in retirement than I ever did when working. But as this goes live, I am recovering from a new knee replacement. As I age I am having everything that fails and either be replaced or removed. Orchiectomy next?...
Traditional Medicine Based Extinction. An Update.
What we do best.
Garden of Healing
As I read the plaques in the Garden of Healing, I thought it would be a fun project to compare the content with reality.
Infection Control/Infection Prevention
Summertime. And the living is easy. Janice Joplin has to be the best singer. Ever. There may be those in the comments who disagree, but remember, within the context of the blog, what I write is canon. Which is not the same as being true. Canon. Any-who. I spend summer on the front porch and rarely venture inside. Outside has had the...