This Week in COVID

Dr. Klotman’s BCM video update this week has nothing about COVID. Things are fairly quiet in the world of respiratory viruses right now, and that’s […]

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Bug Fest 2024

To us, it’s more a season than a singular event. Louisiana crawfish, aka mud bugs, become available in Austin in April and continue to be […]

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Topsy-Turvy

Like many of my friends, I’m having too many Alice in Wonderland days when everything seems topsy-turvy. Today was one of those days. I drove […]

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Nefarious

Listening to David Pecker’s testimony in the Trump 2016 Election Interference case today, I thought about the very real concerns that folks have about potential […]

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SHEA

It’s the Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America. The society’s Spring meeting was in Houston this year – hosted by Baylor College of Medicine (our […]

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Quesadillas con Epazote

My epazote plants are now large enough that their leaves are about 2″ long. So, I decided to make a snack of quesadillas last night. […]

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Homeostasis

The word and concept were coined by American physiologist Walter Cannon in the early 20th Century. The concept is that living things have mechanisms that […]

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Oh, No!

Okay, it’s actually Ono aka Hawaiian Wahoo. I don’t think that I have had it before, but it looked interesting in the fish monger’s display, […]

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The Y Mystery

For as long as Susan and I have been together, we have attributed various male behaviors to the Y Chromosome. You will recall from your […]

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Making an Ash of Myself

Several years ago, I posted a medical tale of a Hispanic patient who presented to the hospital ER with active audio-visual hallucinations with religious and […]

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