I had surgery last week to remove my left ovary. I’m 53, so it isn’t doing all that much for me anyway. It was what we call an “incidental finding.” This simply means that we were looking for something else, but could not ignore this other issue that is staring back at you and is…Continue Reading “Doctors make the best patients. Sort of.”
He said “thank you for listening to me” before he left for the Emergency Room. I’m still mulling over his appreciation. He did not want to come to the Urgent Care, but he named a few complaints to his nurse daughter and she asked him to please be seen. His symptoms were vague. He had…Continue Reading “He thanked me for listening”
There is no better place to watch science in action than in the world of medicine. It was discovered in the 1930’s that blood, in the presence of a certain streptococcus bacteria, did not clot. The agent formed by the bacteria was isolated and eventually called streptokinase, the first “clot buster”. Through the decades, pharmaceutical…Continue Reading “Clot Busters”