Teenage boys: “Do you have to breath like that!”
Paul Buehrens You can learn a lot driving your teens around. Hillary B. had taught me that. After a little bit, the driver is no longer a parent, but just the chauffeur,…
The unexpected happens a lot
This 29-year-old school teacher patient of mine was in excellent health. One day she came in for an illness visit and reported that she had lost all feeling and strength…
Be careful what you ask for
D. had brought me his mother for her health, and I guess he learned to trust me, because next he brought himself. I learned that D. was, like a lot…
How SyncMD Got Started, or It Takes Naiveté to Be Revolutionary?
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…
My response to the earthquake was culturally modified
According to Wikipedia, “at 10:54:32 local time on February 28, 2001” the Nisqually earthquake occurred. My office in Kirkland WA is 45 miles away, but I felt it. At the…
Nurses know tings
When I was a resident, Dena took care of 9 of us, 3 in each year, and every year 3 new ones. I was at her work station and only…
Soccer Doc tells a couple of war stories
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…
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…