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When Sooner becomes Later
So Dr. Tucker asked, “Would you be willing to go see the immunologists at the Cleveland Clinic?” I said yes and he said he would arrange a hospital-to-hospital transfer. When he came back a day or two later, Dr. Tucker quietly … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes, Nature, Medical care, American medical industry, Depression, Pharmaceuticals, drugs, physician
Tagged diagnosis, depression, antidepressants, doctors, drugs, pharmaceuticals, Medicine, Physician, patients, Conditions and Diseases, recovery, immunology, diabetes, glucose, sleep, Peter Breggin, Cleveland Clinic, catheter, Dr. James Tucker, spell-binding
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What’s the Point?
So what is going to happen? I give that some thought. First, I don’t want Nurse Sharon to touch me, so I would have to get a new home health care agency and a new nurse. But I also don’t … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, drugs, God, Humor, Medical care, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Sex, Spirituality, Values
Tagged relationships, antidepressants, values, death, end-of-life, doctors, drugs, pharmaceuticals, GFR, glomerular filtration rate, immune system, God, disability, Medicine, Physician, patients, Conditions and Diseases, Onondaga County New York, pheromones, CPAP, sleep, BiPAP, catheter, end stage renal disease, Terry Schiavo, psychiatric medications
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Erasing Painful Memories
This blog is repeatedly being searched for what psychiatric drugs will erase painful memories. There are none. What has happened to you has made you the person you are. Painful memories cannot be excised from your mind like a tumor … Continue reading
Home from the Hospital: The Trauma of Hospitalization
I was discharged from the hospital a month ago, and folks have been asking me how I’m doing. The answer is somewhere between better and really good. My discharge from St. Joseph’s Hospital was pretty well botched and the transition to … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, drugs, Health Care, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged blog, Conditions and Diseases, death, diagnosis, discharge, doctors, Dr. James Tucker, drugs, Facilities, freedom of speech, Health, health care, hospital, hospitalization, immune system, institutionalization, Medicine, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, sleep, St. Joseph's Hospital
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Doctors are Dorkheads: Sleep, Obesity, Hypertension and Diabetes
Maybe the reason you are overweight is because of poor sleep. When you are not getting enough restorative sleep then your body produces more of the hormone that increases your appetite and less of the hormone that decreases your appetite. … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, drugs, Health Care, Medical care, Nature, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged blood sugar, Conditions and Diseases, diabetes, diagnosis, doctors, dorkheads, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, drugs, eating, Health, health care, Hippocrates, hormones, Hypertension, immune system, Medicine, obesity, Obstructive sleep apnea, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, Positive airway pressure, problem solving, sleep, Sleep apnea, Sleep disorder, St. Joseph's Hospital, weight gain
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The Good News: Sleep
Sleep is the best meditation. Dalai Lama I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway The only time I have problems is when I sleep. Tupac Shakur When I woke up … Continue reading
The Desta Anthony’s of the World (Part III)
So I am going to have to look into this—this business of St. Joseph’s Hospital not reporting to nurse practitioner Desta Anthony that I took drugs as prescribed and as tolerated. I tell Ms Anthony that I took insulin four … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, drugs, Health Care, Medical care, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged antibiotic, catheter, Conditions and Diseases, Desta Anthony, Dick Gottlieb, doctors, drugs, Foley catheter, Health, health care, home health care, insulin, liar, Medicine, MobileMed, noncompliance, Nurse, nurse practitioner, patients, Physician, sleep, St. Joseph's Hospital
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Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Foley Catheters: A Personal Journey (Part I)
Frederic Foley was a Boston surgeon who invented the catheter around 1930. It is a narrow piece of plastic tubing that is inserted through the urethra and into the bladder. After it is positioned in the bladder then a balloon filled with … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Death, Mental Illness & Health, Medical care, American medical industry, physician
Tagged end-of-life, mental health, lithium, God, Physician, patients, Psychiatrist, St. Joseph's Hospital, diabetes insipidus, sleep, kidney disease, catheter, bladder, urethra, urine, pee
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Knowing
The night is soft and lovely as it settles over “The Hill”—Syracuse University. The freshmen started moving in yesterday. I wheel the Hill and wonder. These kids—our children—come to the university with long, tan legs and eager faces. Their parents accompany … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, God, Health Care, Medical care, Spirituality, Values
Tagged American Medical Industry, blogs, Cleveland Clinic, death, diagnosis, doctors, Dr. Esselstyn, drugs, Education, end-of-life, Foley catheter, Forks over Knives, God, Health, health care, Medicine, mental health, patients, plant diet, Sanjay Gupta, sleep, Syracuse University, The Hill, values, whole food
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