Hello, and welcome to Pediatric House Calls. I am…
A Physician board certified in Pediatric medicine with Clinical experience including caring for infants, children and teens – well these days mostly children and teens up to twenty-one;
An Administrator experienced in top medical management for several national health insurance companies;
An Author of health care manuals, newspaper columns and even children's stories;
A Business Medical Consultant for drug companies, insurance companies and
physician practices;
A Veteran of the US Navy in the Vietnam era;
And…
I make House-Calls.
Even though he found that his audience contained none of his favorite ages, three to 12, Jack gave his TED talk anyway and advised those present to: “don’t go extinct.”
His spellbinding talk tells the story of how iconoclastic thinking revealed a shocking secret about some of our most beloved dinosaurs, the scientists who collect them and the curators who collect and display them.
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A New Year, Yippie!
[About this time every year things get a bit hectic around the homestead and we need to take a little hiatus. Hope you and everyone you care about have a perfect holiday season—wherever you may be! See you again in the new year.]
Santa knows where you are – even in hospice
[About this time every year things get a bit hectic around the homestead and we need to take a little hiatus. Hope you and everyone you care about have a perfect holiday season—wherever you may be! See you again in the new year.]
We’ve already talked about medical proverbs such as “cold hands, warm heart,” “feed a cold, starve a fever,” “drink eight glasses of water a day,” “cigarettes will stunt your growth” and that “apple a day”… thing.
But there are some we left out because the list was getting a bit long for one sitting. I’m going to take another shot at listing a few more, some from the “dawn” of medicine and others which are beginning to hit up against the way doctors are practicing medicine these days!
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You use paper towels to dry your hands every day, but chances are, you’re doing it wrong. In this enlightening and funny short talk, Oregon attorney Joe Smith reveals the trick to perfect paper towel technique.
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If nothing else, doctors are a bit concrete. We love boxes, categories, lists and health proverbs; but most of all… answers!
So, things a bit askew, catawampus, off kilter or out of place make the average physician a bit nauseous if not outright wonky and catapulted into a search for the rationale. You give us an aphorism and we’ll design a research study.
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In the U.S., old Ben Franklin published a series of articles in his Old Richard’s Almanac which, even if he didn’t come out right and say it, people took as the truth and became Medical Proverbs still with us today.
Perhaps it’s because a lot of these medical proverbs had their roots in vintage manuscripts like the bible and early writings of the pioneering healers/doctors throughout time.
How about it? Should we take sayings like: “early to bed…”, “an apple a day…”, “pay attention to seasons…”, “doctors’ best book is the patient”, “health checks don’t add anything meaningful…”, “eight glasses of water…”, “cold hands…”, “cigarettes stunt your…” and “feed a cold…” as truth or with a huge grain of salt?
Let’s do some proverb-busting!