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Deaths of Despair

I’m an old Internal Medicine and Geriatrics doc; don’t have much experience with suicide. One of my patients during residency committed suicide after my residency […]

Let’s Get Ready to Roomba!

It’s a battle cry worthy of a Madison Square Garden Pugilistic face-off. The new Roomba arrived yesterday. I cut the packing tape from the box, […]

Touch

When I worked in the health insurance business end of medicine, I picked up some of the jargon. An interaction with a medical colleague or […]

Teaching Dogs to Cook

Dreaming is a very idiosyncratic activity; I am sure you know. The dreams that I remember are those rooted in various neuroses – performance anxiety, […]

More Snail Porn

Dinner tonight was another wonderful meal of escargot following Anthony Bourdain’s recipe. I made bruschetta earlier in afternoon, and Susan chopped a French baguette into […]

Four-letter Words

Acronyms actually. I remember the first of these that I learned in college – BYOB. It was included in various party invitations (Bring Your Own […]

This Week in COVID

Here is Dr. Klotman’s Week 173 COVID update. Sporadic COVID outbreaks continue to occur – nobody should be surprised. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is still mutating […]

Changing Bulbs

Seven years or more ago, I began replacing burnt out incandescent bulbs with newer LED bulbs. At first, our lighting became a hodgepodge of incandescent […]

Sharkiness

About this time every year for the last few, I have posted something about Sharks. It may have been about the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week […]

Borgification

I use the term, tongue in cheek, to refer to humanity’s increasing dependence on technology. The Borg are a Star Trek culture of space-faring cyborgs […]