Random musings
The Purple Mango Pandemonium ranks 5000 in Africa and 74 in Ghana. According to site visitors it ranks 2080, and 1807 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 9452 and 9358 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Today, I had a sudden urge to delight in Indian almond. Too bad I'm nowhere near one. Indian almonds are one of my childhood delights, in addition to cocoa pulp, the jelly like sweet & tangy substance that surrounds each cocoa bean in the pod (see below), the previously
Last month, a baby in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania died of pertussis (whooping cough). I suppose death from pertussis (or any other vaccine-preventable illness) is preferable to the speculated possibility of life with autism for vaccine nay-sayers. Thank goodness I'm not a pediatrician because I don't think I
So in my last post, I reflected on the situation in Haiti being made worse because an unpredictable natural disaster compounded poverty, poor infrastructure, and political corruption. I wondered if other impoverished countries in this world would have been prepared especially countries known to be seismic zones...like Ghana. That
I think of myself as being able to accept the possibility that I am wrong and others right. :-) I believe that others are entitled to their opinions just as I am to disregard them. Which is why as ludicrous as it was, as trivial as the comment given the
A few days ago, I read an article in the New York Times describing the "ever-accelerating pace" of technological advances that is creating "mini-generation gaps" concluding that "younger generations are going to have some very peculiar and unique expectations about the world". These newest generations, the article went on to
This is a continuation of my previous rant on Medicare/Medicaid....Earlier this week, it was another patient. Also with osteomyelitis (a bone infection). Doing well however. I still had this patient on antibiotics and wanted to get bloodwork to monitor for potential adverse effects of the antibiotics. Knowing that
Today I've been pushed towards my boiling point. Co-workers came to see that I could raise my voice. Luckily I did not have one of my famous tempers.What has gotten me worked up?Medicaid!I saw a consult in the hospital about two weeks ago. A 50 something year
For the third time since moving to "the real America" patients have confided in me their distaste, distrust, and disapproval of "foreign doctors". Each time I wonder if they are secretly talking about me but no these are patients who have no qualms putting their doctor in her or
For as long as I remember, I have always enjoyed reading obituaries. Call me morbid, but reading about the lives of those who once shared this world with me makes me more aware of my humanity as well as of my mortality. With the exception of famous people
Have you ever walked into a DMV and then walked out in a good mood?The last time I went to a DMV was the first time (and only...so far) a policeman ever stopped me. It was pouring rain but I had managed to have a quieter day on the consult
Not following anyone at the moment.
