Thank you for the Valentine heart!

There used to be a Photoshop of George W. Bush playing war in a sandbox.

Anyone care to alter it for Trump?

Is the Dow drop going to kill the "Republicans SURGE toward Mid-Terms!" talk?

I sure hope so.

Beethoven ripped off Salieri!

Most classical music enthusiasts know that Antonio Salieri was not the emibittered mediocrity of the play and film Amadeus. He was quite a talented, if not ingenious, composer, under whom Beethoven and other up-and-coming Romantic Era composers studied.

I'm listening to Salieri's 26 Variations On 'La Follia De Spagna" and variation number 6 sounds incredibly like one of the movements (I forget just which one right now) of Beethoven's 7th Symphony. Almost note-for note.

Score another win for Salieri!

Friday Night Vodka Buzz. Ask me anything.

Sometimes, I have to give my patients a little extra time.

Every once in a while, I'll have a patient visit that essentially lasts about thirty seconds.

"Oh that? No problem. Just do this and this and that will take care of it. Nothing to worry about".

Then I'll feel a little guilty that the visit was so brief (and the patient may have been waiting for a while), so I'll throw a little extra information in, just to make the patient feel like the visit was worthwhile. A little patient education, some advice on conservative treatment of small medical issues, whatever.

Just as every overworked medical provider dreads visits that drag on for a while, I'm sure there are those, like me, who worry that the patient may feel they're not getting 100%.