Casebook of a Community Internist

Blogs

• 4/10/2024

  Code Blue

  I was sitting in the cafeteria, taking a break from hospital work. My mind was somewhere else, maybe my patient list, or a book, or thinking about dinner. In an instant, I knew exactly where I was, and how fast time passed as I ran down the corridor.
• 3/27/2024

  AM or PM? That is the question

  There are two things certain in life: death and taxes. If our patients die, how important is it that we convey to next of kin an accurate cause of death? 
• 2/23/2024

  Insecurity in health

  We have vaccines and antibiotics, surgeries and nutritional diets, housing and protective institution—we just have to make them work together. 
• 2/9/2024

  It's ok to make a 'mystake'

  Mistakes need to be identified, analysed, reported and studied—so we don’t make them again.
• 1/30/2024

  Negative to positive: current thoughts

  We all know that lightbulbs work when negative electrons move to the positive terminal and in this case, a flow of ideas and actions improve patient outcomes.
• 1/11/2024

  Should we encourage dogs in healthcare settings?

  Be it as a pacifier in the ER, or as a diagnostician at the airport, dogs can make great 'medical devices.'
• 12/20/2023

  Finger sepsis

  We've come a long way in controlling—but not conquering—germ invasion.
• 12/5/2023

  Nobel laureates: Medicine and physiology

  Let us remember the greats in medicine and keep celebrating new visions.
• 11/27/2023

  Calories, vitamins and supplements

  Given how important nutrition is to health, are we taught enough about it?
• 11/16/2023

  Medical wisdom

  Would you like to be cared for by an algorithm, or a concerned and well-trained individual?
• 11/1/2023

  The concept of ‘normal’ and emotional plaque

  Here's a thought experiment to consider where the baseline of normal deviates throughout our lifetime.
• 10/13/2023

  ECT, etc.

  A conversation with a patient who owed his life to pacemaker and his mood to house current.