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SurgeXperiences No. 20

In honor of Dr. Sid Schwab’s masterful edition of the surgery blog carnival, SurgeXperiences, I offer this humble introduction:
Dr. Schwab shows a natural attraction
To verse in utmost compaction.
 He’s written a book
 So go take a look
At our Limerick Laureate in action!
This is the first time I participate, so I’m especially honored to be included in […]

My kind of American hero

50 years ago this month, a lanky 23-year-old young man from the small town of Kilgore, Texas went on Soviet soil and conquered an entire nation–truly winning their hearts and minds–at the height of the Cold War, a mere six months after the Soviets launched Sputnik I to start the space race–not with military might, […]

Grand Rounds 4:31

Blog buddy Dr. Val is hosting this week at her blog, Dr. Val and the Voice of Reason. Go check out the best of the medical blogosphere from this last week.
I will be back shortly.

Hospitalia: The Beginning

So, as promised, here is how all my medical melodrama began. I warn in advance this will be long and in several parts, but I do think it makes for interesting reading. I’ve tried to really highlight the whole “medical-person-as-patient” experience because while I’ve had this or that done or tested since starting medical school, […]

The Natural Orifice Consortium

Or more completely, the Natural Orifice Consortium for Assessment and Research, a group dedicated to investigating and exploring ways to perform surgery through natural orifices, such as the vagina, anus/rectum, and about any other opening nature provides:

Using patients’ natural openings (the mouth, vagina or rectum) as entry points to the body is perhaps the intuitive […]

And now, back to our regularly scheduled program

I’m back!! I missed blogging tremendously with so many times thinking in my head, “Oh, I gotta write/share that!” but I made a commitment to let things settle down to a dull roar before I started posting again, not wanting to have this start/stop bad mojo on the blog. Thankfully, I think I’m finally at […]