"The Enema Master presented me with long screeds about the Jews and Satan which he read with shaky hands...Maybe this individual was drawn to detoxification because he already had mental or emotional problems. Or maybe he had pushed the coffee enema beyond the bounds of common sense." - from ( Read more... )

A Sickness of the Soul, from the Economist.

Quotes:

At less than 59, male life expectancy has collapsed in a way otherwise found only in sub-Saharan Africa. It is around five years lower than it was 40 years ago, and 13 years lower than that of Russian women-one of the biggest gaps in the world. Male life expectancy in Irkutsk (not the country's ( Read more... )

The Fish List is gone. Or at least its home page is, and points back to the Seafood Choices site. The list itself remains, but I don't know when it was last updated ( Read more... )

This is the story about how refilling one generic prescription that I have been on for more than a year has taken the whole week so far and is not done yet. I present to you the combined effects of: tightly coupled systems; similar numbers; incompetent yet confident clerks; persistent computer errors that are not corrected; supply chain mishaps; ( Read more... )

The spammer who wanted me to buy his $177 "Harmony Chip" that fixes everything has responded to my post about his spam.

This editorial writer wants us to believe that the increase in obesity in the U.S. is due to illegal immigrationHis idea is 581% insane: The "obesity epidemic" is a result of illegal immigrants doing housework, causing householders to become fat. After you've finished chewing through your biteblock considering that thought, I'd like to point out ( Read more... )

I can dump all the medical intervention, diet, exercise, personal struggle, and philosophical attempts to deal with various mental and physical problems, because the HARMONY CHIP is here! Bring on the donuts, whiskey, casual unprotected sex, and sloth!

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mendel send me this medical shop talk forum thread, which contains stories about emergency room patients from doctors and other ER folks on the theme: "Things I Learn from my Patients ( Read more... )

Do not eat any seafood that you know to have been distributed by Pacific Seafood of San Diego, California. Here's why!

Via this bulletin from promed.

Public health dorks and others interested in issues of disease, public health, and complete and utter pants-filling terror may be interested in the MMWR feed I just created, which is from the Centers for Disease Control's canonical Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The MMWR summarizes various aspects of doom in the U.S. and elsewhere and has other ( Read more... )