Patients lie. That’s not a secret. It’s the reason doctor notes read like police reports. “The patient denies smoking.” “The patient states they lost the prescription for Vicodin that the ER gave her two days ago.” It would be kinder if we wrote “the patient doesn’t smoke” and “the patient lost her prescription” but do […]
Death, Decrepitude and Familial Guilt
Life. Death. One of the greatest truths I have learned in medicine is that death is normal. Society operates from the standpoint that if we do “everything possible” death will not come. But death comes to everyone. And sometimes death is ugly, very ugly. I have come to the realization that we do a disservice […]
2016 – The Year of Zika
We are barely a month into 2016, and already it seems we have found our illness du jour. ZIKA VIRUS! I will admit that Zika virus is relatively new to me despite being an infectious disease specialist. When I first heard of it in 2014 through an online news report out of Brazil, I had to […]
Living in Fear – When Patients Kill Doctors
As humans, we judge the people that we meet even before we know anything about them. Even before we hear what they have to say, we have categorized them in a box – “nice”, “stupid”, “racist”. When we hear bad or unpleasant news, it is tough for us to separate our feelings about that news […]
Disgusted by pyrimethamine price hike
About two weeks ago, a physician on the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) listserve asked if anyone else was experiencing difficulty acquiring pyrimethamine (Daraprim), a drug used to treat toxoplasmosis and malaria in combination with other medications. Others responded that they too were experiencing shortages. Little did we know then what we know now. […]
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