I was taking care of a middle-aged patient recently who was experiencing a recurrent bout of diverticulitis this time severe and with a small abscess. It’s at a stage where surgery to remove part of the colon is necessary but the surgeon wants to let things  “cool down” for a few weeks. So my role […]
Is It Time To Loosen Purse Strings?
Major life milestone alert. Yes indeed. Finally, after five years I have watched my $230,000 student loan debt dwindle down to ZERO. Hallelujah! It has not been easy but I can say now “never again!” What misery those years were. I did not know when I signed the promissory notes for each of those loans […]
Zero Ebola in Liberia
The last known patient with Ebola in Liberia was discharged from a hospital on Thursday. It’s a momentous occasion. Next up are Guinea and Sierra Leone. Let’s put this horrific Ebola epidemic of 2014-2015 behind us soon, and let’s not forget to build up the health care infrastructure in these countries and in those of […]
No to Measles Parties and No, Breastmilk is Not Enough
I find the thought of measles parties disturbing. Worse is the thought that “we do not need vaccines because our ancestors did just fine without them“. That’s idiotic. I laugh a little to myself in exasperation then I remember it’s not nice to laugh at the ignorant. Of course getting immunity from a disease is […]
Digging in the Dirt for New Antibiotics
An article in The Telegraph caught my eye the other day. Headline “First new antibiotic in 30 years discovered in major breakthrough”. I was embarrassed to be learning about Teixobactin not from a scientific journal but from regular news media but hey, learning is learning. The article highlighted a report from a recent publication of […]
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