#MensHealth
/Former Fam Med DukeU/Toronto via Northern Ont / itโs not medical advice unless I say so /Part time pessimist/ Not as enthused with this place lately
Admitted with AIDS complications, you told me,the intern, how your father hadnโt talked to you since your diagnosis.Your condition worsened quickly +you died on the floor. Your father came up to see you only after you passed.
I saw him cry and you didnโt.
#ShareAStoryInOneTweet
Call patient today.
Px: Hi doc?
Me: Yes, can you talk now?
Px: Sure, just let me climb down the ladder.
*silence
*silence
*silence
Px: OK thanks doc. How was my blood?
Me: First. NEVER answer your phone on a ladder....
If an offhand comment about my wifeโs shoes is going to become one of my most liked Tweets ever, Iโm going to have to seriously reconsider this whole Twitter thing
The
#Mueller
interpretation reads like a Radiology report
No obvious obstruction.
Canโt rule out collusion.
Does not appear prosecutable.
Barr correlation recommended.
The one way floor arrows at Canadian Tire lead me to a point of converging aisles from which there is no legal return.
So here I stay. Its in the camping section so that helps. How long can one survive on mosquito coils?
My Grandmother died early this morning in her 96th year.
She outlived her oldest son Gary, my father, by 17 years.
Tomorrow is
#MothersDay
.
I found this from him 70 years ago:
#ShareaStoryinOneTweet
The guy who left a voice message over the weekend (with kids SCREAMING in the background)...about wanting a Vasectomy, made my morning ๐คฃ.
#MensHealth
@DrGRuralMD
Had a patient who couldnโt dealโฆadmitted to dumping all meds in a bowl, mixing, and took โa pinchโ once or twice a day. Despite our horror, he did quite well.*
* not medical advice.
Today a close family member in US is extremely ill with COVID-19.Its not looking good. For layer upon layer of reasons our family canโt visit the care facility to see him.
This 6% nonsense is yet another way the humanity of so many is being cancelled.
I think I vaccinated in 10 languages today.
#Toronto
is the best.
The chit chat with the older crowd is worth the price of admission.
Plus....chocolate bars ๐
The "Doctor Note", is basically Employers abusing the publicly funded health system to extend their HR dept for free, in order to passive-agressively harass their employees, and put the rest of society at risk along the way.
So much wrong up there^^^
Wake up call for Family Medicine in ๐จ๐ฆ.
Oodles of unmatched residency spots.
Hope itโs not writing on the wall. We need to decide what we value. And fast.