This is probably the most exciting thing I have ever written about! I must first share with you that I have been going through some pretty tough times. For most of 2021, I have been asking myself, “how can I find happiness and joy in my life when outside circumstances are dark and difficult?” My…
Category: Hope
having faith things will get better
The problem of sludge
My life lately has been filled with sludge. Not that sticky icky thick stuff like out of a crankcase, but the time-sucking, demeaning and engineered-to-demoralize type of bureaucratic red tape stuff. I know you have been subjected to sludge, too. We all have. Cass Sunstein recently dubbed the name “sludge” for this kind of stuff….
Antibiotic Stewardship Matters
For many years I had discussions with my patients about how we as health care providers needed to be good stewards of antibiotic use. It usually came in the context of explaining to a patient why I thought they didn’t need an antibiotic for their condition. Little did I know that that I would develop…
54321 – Countdown to ease anxiety
2021 was a rough year for me, fraught with anxiety. Not only was I fighting a recurring infection, I also had a kicked up thyroid that set off debilitating episodes of disabling anxiety with scary symptoms like chest pain and palpitations. We eventually got the physical causes under control, but I continued to have bouts…
Finding reliable health info online
“I get a little help from my friends”. Where would we be without the help of others? When you are looking for information to guide your decisions about your health, how do you know who to trust? There is a lot of information out there on the internet, and not all of it is sound…
Waiting for test results is hard. Things you can do while you wait.
In my last post I discussed that oh-oh moment. When something happens that you know ISN’T GOOD. You know, like all of a sudden you are bleeding from somewhere unexpected, or your body just isn’t behaving normally. You know something in your life is about to change, and maybe not for the better. What do…