I work in a hospital that does not have a huge maternity ward. When a baby is born, a short lullaby (~ 10 seconds) is played overhead on the intercom. I usually hear that lullaby once maybe a few times a week. So why did I hear that lullaby about five times on Monday, and […]
Hurrah for Pope Benedict XVI – Condoms for all
It’s almost surreal. Did the Pope actually suggest that the use of condoms to prevent the transmission of HIV is the lesser of two evils, even if their use prevents a pregnancy? Wow! I feel like we have entered into a new era. This is a whole paradigm shift. Now that he has said this […]
Good morning Viagra!
I was in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) recently for the IDSA Annual Meeting. While resting in the hotel watching TV a really animated, bright, and uplifting advertisement starts. It’s a man in a business suit leaving his home, dancing, skipping and even hop-skotching his way to work. It made me think. A child does that […]
Wish Upon a Falling Star – Perseid Meteors Shower 2010
A couple of days ago, a colleague at work mentioned going out on the lake with friends and trying to catch a glimpse of this years Perseid meteors shower. I’ll admit, I had no clue of what she spoke. Turns out that every year around this time our dearly beloved planet Earth passes through the orbit […]
It’s Official – I Have an American Accent
For the third time since moving to “the real America” patients have confided in me their distaste, distrust, and disapproval of “foreign doctors”. Each time I wonder if they are secretly talking about me but no these are patients who have no qualms putting their doctor in her or his place. Like the man who […]