April 27, 2019

Friday Night Wine-Buzz. Ask me anything...

I love you all...

April 24, 2019

You know those powerless creeps who go through their lives constantly threatening to sue everyone?

Snivelling losers whose lack of accomplishment is due in equal parts to bad decision-making and a sense of entitlement?

That's Trump, but with (someone else's) money...

April 20, 2019

Friday Night Moscow Mule Buzz. Oh, God! What a week! Hold me!

One of the roughest weeks in clinic for a while. I had to give it my all; and, as is often the case, I find myself wondering if my all is enough. On the plus side, I felt like I practiced good medicine even during the roughest patches.

I'm fighting anti-vaxxers in GD, tooth and nail.

I'm seeing our nation sink further and further into squalor and criminal behavior as a new normal.

And in the midst of it all, I play the 'Jupiter' section of Gustav Holst's "The Planets", and cry tears of joy at the 'I Vow To Thee' middle section of the piece, which is beautiful, awe-inspiring, uplifting, hopeful, triumphant, and life-affirming. Sometime life truly is good.

I'm drunk. Be patient with me...

I love you all...

April 19, 2019

Whew! It's been months since someone tried to shake me down for opioids or benzos.

Today, I got four already.

And the day's only half over.


The weekend can't come fast enough...

April 13, 2019

Please...... *sob* ......think of the tanks......

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April 9, 2019

Wish me luck. I'm trying to keep a patient of mine from being deported.

I have visited with this patient for six years now. He's in his late sixties. He ran track and field for his country in the 1976 Olympics ( I won't say which country; a trip to the almanac could reveal his name.) and he's been homeless for about the last ten years. He's not a US citizen, and now the Trump government wants to deport him.

I wrote a letter just now disapproving him for overseas travel based on his medical condition. I'm hoping they will delay or cancel his deportation as a result. Be thinking good thoughts for my patient.

March 18, 2019

Fourth day of being sick. I'm getting cabin fever...

March 12, 2019

I never stop trying to encourage my patients to quit smoking.

When they sigh and say: "I'll try..." I want to go the full-Yoda on them:

"No! Try not! Do! Or do not! There is no try!"

What I actually do offer a lame: "Well, keep at it..." because doing this: hurts too much, and is bad for the thought-process.

March 9, 2019

Friday Night Wine Buzz.

Any night owls up?

I'm sorry this is so late. It's what I get for binge-watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel...

March 2, 2019

"Never Forget", You Said:

I Am Proof That You Have Forgotten: