Easter Clinic

9 Patients working solo on an Easter Sunday from 10 AM until 1 PM. Staff had the day off. Deferred another 5 patients (who called) until Monday. Gastritis. URI with Pleurisy and Right Costo-Sternal Ligament strain. Migraine with Depression overlay. Domestic Stressors...

BB gunshot.

18 patients Saturday before Easter. BB gunshot to volar Left index finger, almost exited other side, requiring I&D and foreign body removal, through & through wick packing, will see back tomorrow. Folks !!! Safe gun handling is imperative for all ages, and all...

‘Good’ Friday

30 patients on a ‘Good’ Friday before Easter Sunday. Influenza Type B x3 again. A half dozen Allergic/Seasonal Rhino-Sinusitis treated symptomatically, no abx. A thumbtip avulsion, anaesthesia, & electrofulgarated to effect hemostasis. Leukopenia in a...

Warming.

31 patients. Thursday is warming up in more ways than one. Flowers Blooming. COPD exacerbation. A half dozen of seasonal non-infectious Rhinosinusitis. Occult Humerus Head fracture s/p Syncope, Fall and upper arm contusion. Gastroenteritis. A series of endocrine...

Universal Cancer Cure?

10 years ago, a Stanford University School of Medicine researcher Irving Weissman found a protein on Leukemia cells, called CD47, which the cancer cells produce in inordinate amounts. CD47 is a marker protein that acts as a signal to prevent the body’s immune...