Late night at the office, catching up on paperwork.

Talk to me.

I'm bored...

Saturday, April 19th. The Weekend Edition of William Shakespeare's Thought For The Day.

Anecdote from Street-Level America: more and more of the homeless are getting off the streets.

Every week, it seems, I have at least one patient who comes to the clinic to announce that he or she is getting into housing, and will probably change primary care providers. In other cases, I have patients who have been off the streets for a full year doing the same. My clinic offers healthcare to former homeless patients for up to a full year after they get off the streets.

In a number of cases, I have these same patients starting to visit me at our mainstream clinic when I work there on Fridays. So they get continuity of care, which is an important aspect of clinic medicine.

I haven't seen any stastistics to back this up scientifically, but I think things are getting better. The economy is finally starting to turn around. My patients are reporting that they have jobs, and they now have to schedule clinic visits around their work requirements. This is a good thing.

If we have to close the homeless clinic someday due to a complete absence of homeless people, that would be all right with me.

I'd just take some ibuprofen, get a deep-tissue neck and shoulder massage, and start again...

Late night at the office, getting caught up on paperwork. Boring paperwork. Ask me anything.

Haven't had much of a chance to talk to my Lounge peeps lately...

Saturday, April 12th. The Weekend Edition of William Shakespeare's Thought For The Day.

Will and I are celebrating another edition of WSTFTD. Ask us anything.

It's Happy Hour!

Will says: "And MOST happy hour! We have ale in our cups and all is well! Let us be merry!"

Saturday, April 5th. The Weekend Edition Of William Shakespeare's Thought For The Day.

I just un-followed my sister-in-law's daugher on Facebook.

She posted a pic of bottle openers with President Obama's likeness on them, and captioned it: "Target practice, anyone?"



I convinced my Republican wife to vote for President Obama in 2012, but I guess the rest of her family is beyond help...

Saturday, March 29th. The Weekend Edition of William Shakespeare's Thought For The Day.

The hospital just sent me a death notice for one of my patients.

First one in a while.

I didn't know him very well. I only visited with him three times. He had a lot of issues, drug use foremost among them, and he was not-compliant with his treatment plan.

He was taken to the hospital two days ago with severe pneumonia. They tried to treat him, but he spiraled. He had a do not resuscitate order in place, so they made him comfortable, and he died yesterday.

He must have had a miserable life. He's not in pain anymore.