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« Previous EntriesDr Leigh’s take on chickenpox
Monday, May 14th, 2012For incubation, complications, etc., of chicken pox, the disease, please see my article at http://bit.ly/ckGGUV (scroll down 3/4 for that section).
Please especially read it, if you are pregnant or have a new baby.
Chicken pox is in the news around our parts:
4/21/12 – “The Oregon Corrections Department says two inmates at the state penitentiary have chicken [...]
Doctors and price fixing: A law story
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012Are you a Law-and-Order, John-Grisham type legal beagle? Do you like interesting true stories about the law? Here are some you might not have heard before.
First, some old-time history:
In 1848, the doctors of Charlottesville, Virginia, agreed to fix their prices above a certain minimum. Some examples:
Regular doctor visit, daytime, $1-2;
$2-4 for night visits.
Attendance on [...]
Help! Stuck at home! Terrible belly problems!
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012I have fielded this issue several times recently. What if you are at home and having intestinal problems? What can you try from the kitchen?
Here are some home remedies with stuff the average kitchen might have on hand – for when you are unable to go, or send anybody, to the drugstore, grocery, or health-food [...]
Help! I have an ovarian cyst!
Monday, March 5th, 2012From a brief stroll around the Internets:
I was recently diagnosed with having an Ovarian cyst after having extreme lower, right abdominal pain and nausea and being admitted to the hospital to rule out appendicitis. Can someone give me information on this?
After several months of experiencing mild cramping in my lower abdomen, I saw a gynecologist [...]
Why go in for a checkup? AND doctor-conference news.
Sunday, February 26th, 2012Why should you go to your doctor for a checkup once a year? Even if you feel fine?
If you are totally sure you are totally healthy, you do not need to go see your doctor.
But if you had an issue your doctor had some suggestions about, last time, and you haven’t seen the doctor [...]
You might have cancer and not even know it!!!!!
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012…Just kidding. But that is what so many of us worry about. This is why we have cancer screening tests – tests we give to people with no symptoms – which must be performed in specific ways.
Here are the 3 most basic cancer screening rules:
1. Men and women, get a screening test for colon cancer [...]
Sweaty palms?
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012I have been learning about hyperhidrosis.
Hyperhidrosis (“HI-per-hi-DRO-sis”) is a condition where the sweat glands are overactive. It can affect the whole body, just the armpits or groin, or only the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. 1 to 3% of the U.S. population has it, and it usually runs in families.
I [...]
Oregon health insurance scandals
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012Just a few newsbites for your perusal. Scroll down for sharks in the Medicaid grant-money waters, the punishments to be inflicted on those who eat and/or smoke (and their spouses and kids), and the creative ways that patients save money on health care. Featuring photos of cute kittens to help ameliorate the rage and sadness [...]
In the News: Prostate cancer and its discontents
Saturday, January 7th, 2012If you’d like to know what I think of all this… Well, I could be induced to write a post about it, by a critical mass of timely requests (not people asking two years after the original post went up). But for now I will simply recirculate some news bits that caught my eye.
“Updated findings [...]
how to Occupy Healthcare!
Friday, January 6th, 2012…Just kidding. I don’t really know how to occupy anything. But I do want to tell you some things about the politics of MRIs.
Have you ever had an MRI? Brief review: Magnetic Resonance Imaging uses a magnet – an very large “superconducting” magnet, using liquid helium. (Actually, not just even liquid, but cold liquid helium, [...]