Casebook of a Community Internist
Blogs
- 6/5/2024
The value of observation
You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to practice the powerful art of observation—after all, his literary inventor was a physician. - 5/27/2024
Gout
I got a bad strep throat, and antibiotics did the trick. Two weeks later, I awoke with a painful, erythematous, tender and swollen right forefoot. - 5/26/2024
Reflections from the ER: Aleysha’s story
One critical event debriefing in 35 years says a lot about the way we treat ourselves. We can do better. - 4/10/2024
Code Blue
I was sitting in the cafeteria, taking a break from hospital work. My mind was somewhere else, maybe my patient list, or a book, or thinking about dinner. In an instant, I knew exactly where I was, and how fast time passed as I ran down the corridor. - 3/27/2024
AM or PM? That is the question
There are two things certain in life: death and taxes. If our patients die, how important is it that we convey to next of kin an accurate cause of death? - 2/23/2024
Insecurity in health
We have vaccines and antibiotics, surgeries and nutritional diets, housing and protective institution—we just have to make them work together. - 2/9/2024
It's ok to make a 'mystake'
Mistakes need to be identified, analysed, reported and studied—so we don’t make them again. - 1/30/2024
Negative to positive: current thoughts
We all know that lightbulbs work when negative electrons move to the positive terminal and in this case, a flow of ideas and actions improve patient outcomes. - 1/11/2024
Should we encourage dogs in healthcare settings?
Be it as a pacifier in the ER, or as a diagnostician at the airport, dogs can make great 'medical devices.' - 12/20/2023
Finger sepsis
We've come a long way in controlling—but not conquering—germ invasion. - 12/5/2023
Nobel laureates: Medicine and physiology
Let us remember the greats in medicine and keep celebrating new visions. - 11/27/2023
Calories, vitamins and supplements
Given how important nutrition is to health, are we taught enough about it?