Ask the Dermatologist!
Things are very serious in the WCCO studios!
Hey hey!
A couple of weeks ago on the Healthy Matters radio show we featured two of my colleagues from Dermatology, Drs. Jenny Liu and Erin Luxenberg. You’ll find us in the photo to the left in the WCCO studios in downtown Minneapolis getting ready for the show.
We’re obviously a pretty tense and serious group, eh?
We mostly focused on skin cancer during that show and it was really informative and fun. If you missed the show, you can listen to the commercial-free podcast by clicking here (Healthy Matters show #434, April 30, 2017).
As usual, we get way more calls, texts, and tweets than we can get to on the live broadcast. So for this blog post we are continuing the show, in a way, by having Dr. Luxenberg and Dr. Liu respond to some of the text questions from that show. So if we didn’t get to your question on the air, maybe we will cover it here.
Here goes . . . read more…
“Don’t worry, at least we will die together!”
Jerusalem, photo © David Hilden
Hi, friends!
In this post I simply want to invite you to read an essay I wrote which was recently published in a journal I admire. Called Intima: a journal of narrative medicine, it is a literary place where medicine is explored through story, narrative non-fiction, and art.
My piece is called “Don’t worry, at least we will die together” and is an account of an experience I had back in 2015 while in Jerusalem.
In addition to reading my piece, I hope you will explore Intima and immerse yourself in any of the outstanding works that were submitted. The journal, which originated at Columbia University in 2010, is a treasure that I hope many of you will come to know.
I haven’t posted much about my interest in Middle East issues, so I’ll give you just a bit of background. If you do nothing else, please click on the Intima logo above and check out my essay. For just a little more on my experience, keep reading. read more…
Quick tips: C. difficile infection will gross you out
OK, let’s talk poop.
As promised in my April 2 post, I plan to do a series of short posts about specific medical topics since I recently returned from “doctor’s school” in San Diego at the American College of Physicians meeting. Missed that post? Re-visit it at “Should you trust the latest medical advice?”
Today’s post will cover C. difficile infections, or CDI. This may be the ickiest post I’ve yet done!
First, a warning. What you about to read may make you go “Ewwww” and may make you wonder what kind of people actually talk about this stuff in polite company. I’ll tell you who talks about it . . . a bunch of doctors in a classroom on a sunny San Diego day. That’s who talks about it. Lucky for you, I’ll summarize here. read more…
