Soccer Doc tells a couple of war stories
Paul Buehrens Having two sons in club soccer turned me into “soccerdoc”. I considered getting a vanity plate for the car…. A graphic depiction of soccer follows: It was a very competitive…
October 2023
How Covid itself made me a trusted source of information
In mid-February of 2020 I announced my retirement would come at the end of June. Then I went to Austria for a ski trip/CME (quite the privilege for doctors!), then…
The N of 1 trial, or the binary patient, part 2
N of 1 means only one patient in a research trial, acting as their own control….for those who care! Hugh appeared in another story with his Parkinson’s. Much later, he…
The new RSV vaccines
In 2023, the FDA has approved two new RSV vaccines, the first ones ever. Both are approved for folks over 60 years old, and one is approved for pregnant women…
Diagnosing early Parkinson’s disease
Hugh was a few years older than I, a wonderful, happy, accomplished, kind man I had the privilege to have as a patient. One day he came in with some…
How SyncMD Got Started
About a decade ago EL was working with his mentor EK, a leading healthcare data scientist, on a project for an AI tool in healthcare. EL had been a startup…
The Value of the Buddy System
One day my middle aged patient who loved to go crabbing and fishing came in with an alarming tale. He had fresh crab on the boat, which attracted yellow jackets,…
How can someone with dementia give informed consent?
When I had 30 nursing home patients, one of them, Mr. Otto A., fainted several times and proved to have a cardiac dysrhythmia (Atrial flutter) for which the best treatment…
What works for colds???
Just dealing with the common cold and sinus infections is actually pretty hard! First, it’s hard to know just why folks come in, but usually there’s some additional agenda: a…
Mountain blueberries: Placebo or miracle?
One of my elderly ladies in the nursing home started having rectal bleeding in her early 80s. The workup revealed surgically curable sigmoid colorectal cancer. That is, she had colon…