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At what point would YOU see your doctor?

Here’s a small clinical vignette for you:
A 43-year-old man with no significant medical history presents to his primary care provider (PCP) complaining of a “wound that won’t get better” on the left side of his neck. He states that the wound has been slowly growing over the past 2 years after it first appeared […]

Grand Rounds 3:36

Grand Rounds 3:36 is up at From Medskool, a med student in San Antonio, TX (Go Spurs!). Check out the best of the medical blogosphere this week!

The “Butterflying” of the Medical Blogosphere

As foretold in Revelations, the apocalypse draws nigh; two highly-read blogs have gone down. Although I did realize what was happening at the time, “Black Wednesday” was literally the day before I was preparing to leave back to Texas for my most recent trip (below) and had no time to comment on it. […]

Recharged

I finally came back Wednesday night, and what an great trip it was. I am still adjusting with a tinge of post-travel fatigue and dealing with being alone again needing to study like there’s no tomorrow, but everything went really well with my family on all fronts. I spent much-needed time w/my daughter […]

1 Year

My daughter turns one year old this weekend and I’ve come back to Texas to celebrate with the family. It seems so long ago that I saw my daughter born, so much has happened in between. I’ve gone from being a 1st year med student to a second year med student which is no […]

22 Reasons You’re Fat!

Believe it or not, the subject above is the actual subject I got from an eDiets email the other day. I hate eDiets with the burning heat of a thousand suns. They are horribly unprofessional, have no real expertise to speak of, and are even sexist. When I was a member, I’d say […]

The Long Road Back

I finally got back to Mexico two weeks ago from being in Texas for almost all of April (and mostly offline). I really wanted to post sooner, but I was waiting for a more positive frame of mind before I did. It seems that’s not really going to happen anytime soon since life […]