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No Air
Buckle up. This is gonna be a long ride with no potty breaks. I started writing this on the kind of crisp, sunny fall day that only Minnesota can properly serve up. The leaves abruptly changed color two days ago and now … Continue reading
Yo, Normal Risk Fifty-year-olds
HI. Are you a normal risk 50 or soon-to-be? Did your doctor say to you last year, “Yeah, you might want to think about scheduling that screening colonoscopy.”? The American Cancer Society upped the anal ante last year and decided … Continue reading
If Sh!# Were Red…
A lovely story about McDonald’s and fecal material circulated on my Facebook feed a week ago. Apparently, a researcher with London Metropolitan University swabbed the ordering touchscreens of eight McDonald’s in London and Birmingham. The research team grew a whole … Continue reading
Open Enrollment
Every year. Rigamarole. Changes to all the plans. Yes, of course I’m grateful to have insurance at all. Yes, I am. This year, I dutifully filled out the online “Alex” assistant thing that’s supposed to estimate costs and decide upon … Continue reading
Flee, Fly, Flu, Flum
Hey! It’s flu season. Again! I blogged about this three years ago and I think it’s worth an update. ———————– Disclaimer: I am not your doctor. I am not trying to give you medical advice. If you are experiencing a … Continue reading
The Darkest Days
The first week of December, a young Minnesota mother died by suicide. The effects of her death rippled through my FaceBook feed, particularly impacting the breastfeeding, attachment parenting, and ECFE communities. I read some of the details of her story, … Continue reading
I Fought the Mall and the Mall Won
Let me make my position on the Mall of America patently clear: I Hate It. Yesterday, the Big E and his friend, who coincidentally shares the same name, dragged me to the Mall. Their deep research into the topic had … Continue reading
Minnesota Reportable Communicable Disease – the stuff we got in 2015
I did not watch the presidential debate last week. Wild horses couldn’t drag me away from my most favorite publication from the Minnesota Department of Health: The Annual Summary of Communicable Diseases Reported to the Minnesota Department of Health, 2015. … Continue reading
The Beauty of a Handwritten Note
“I’m kind of old-school,” Dr. Seshat admits. She’s a millennial doc, finishing her Internal Medicine residency around the year 2000. Her practice straddles the old and the new. During her training, Seshat documented with a pen in a paper chart. … Continue reading
Vishnu, Protector of Humanity
“Some days I feel like I have the best job in the world.” Dr. Vishnu works at an FQHC-designated clinic in California. She calls me between the demands of work and parenting. “We are invited into people’s intimate lives and … Continue reading