Funny Bone is a Really a Nerve
Your funny bone is neither a bone nor particularly funny. I think the funny thing about hitting your elbow on a table edge is more in the eye of the person whose elbow hurts and who has electrical...
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Another Common Medical Term that’s Not Common Vocabulary I was thinking about some of the words that as physicians we used casually, that just are not a part of the vocabulary of most people. I...
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Subconjunctival Hemorrhage: Just a Broken Blood Vessel in the Eye
Resolving Subconjunctival Hemorrhage (3 days old) Today in the office I saw the patient with the subconjunctival hemorrhage, or broken blood vessel in the eye, in this photo. It is always fun to see...
View ArticleAnother Sign I’m Getting Older. Now I have Floaters
No not a bodies floating in the Manhattan River, an annoying small moving black opacity in the visual field of my left eye. Floaters are deposits that are located in the vitreous humor of the eye....
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Sudden Cardiac Arrest is Only Supposed to Happen to Old People
Last weekend I got a call from daughter while I was enjoying dinner on the deck at home. The young man sitting next to her had collapsed during dinner. “What should we do?” was the question. Being...
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Is There Finally An Effective Tennis Elbow Treatment?
Tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis, is a problem that can be very difficult to treat and can try the patience of most patients. Diagnosis is usually straightforward. If you have pain on the...
View ArticleUnderstanding Hypertension
Hypertension is one of the most common health conditions I see in the office, and among the most important treatable diseases worldwide. Of the things we do in medicine, treatment of hypertension has...
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Mike Zunino Swings, Misses and Fractures Hamate: Why Baseball Players Get...
When Mike Zunino went on the DL for my beloved Seattle Mariners last week with a hamate fracture, the same type of injury Ken Griffey Jr. sustained in 1996, it prompted me to review how baseball...
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Have You Heard or Non-compaction Cardiomyopathy
If you have never heard of non-compaction cardiomyopathy you are in good company. Every so often I have a patient who is diagnosed with a condition I’ve never heard about, and today that was...
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