One might say I’m on a roll. Halfway through the year I have already broken my 2017 record for best year. I have published three of my most read ever blog posts in the past three months. But, even combined, they don’t surpass my 2015 piece “Normal Blood Pressure”. If that one was a movie, it would be characterized as a sleeper. It describes a housecall on a snowy day in Van Buren. And I guess it is a fair little snapshot of the essence of rural medicine at the northern edge of my adopted homeland.
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Recent posts
- Set It and Forget It: My Successful First Use of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Patient: “Another Doctor Said Keto Was Bad For Diabetics” – Me: “Let Me Tell You the Story of the Flex Fuel Man”
- Funny Examples of Swedish Medical Terminology
- “Fruit is God’s Candy”
- The Art of Diagnosis: Go With Your Gut, Dig Deeper, Step Back or Start Over
- When I Escalated His GERD Treatment, My Patient Got Worse. Now I Know Why
- “This Doesn’t Usually Hurt that Much”: Patients With Fibromyalgia Spectrum Disorder
- Another Birthday Reflection
- Fatigue, Tinnitus, Dizziness and Dyspnea. What’s the Diagnosis?
- Can the Practice of Primary Care Medicine ever be Practical Again?
- I Actually Love Technology
- Habits for Health and Happiness
- The Gift of Time
- The Art and Soul of Medicine Exist in the Ordinary
- The Science of Clinical Intuition
- To Understand What You Already Know
- There is a Word for People Like Me: AMBIVERT (A Personal Reflection)
- The Call to Be a Primary Care Doctor
- The Annual Physical: Is it Worth Having?
- My Blog is Setting Many Records, Except One, a Surprise Hit from 2015
Despite my instruction for morning lasix, Lilly took hers at bedtime! House calls teach you a lot. Mid morning on a Saturday, Lilly was dressed fully; one might say “encased” in clothes. She had a bedside commode and patiently explained to me that the diuresis from the lasix was much more easily handled at night in her loose nightgown; over to the bedside commode, and easily back to sleep.
I also learned that she milked the cow before she fixed Sam’s breakfast. I suggested that she fix breakfast first. She later reported that her arthritic hands hurt much less with the milking.