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Comb-Free Living
By wisequack at July 1, 2012 | 1:12 pm | 0 Comment
“If you don’t have it, flaunt it.” Mr. Reynolds Mr. Reynolds was an unusual and frightening physics teacher. I was enrolled in his Hi School class, Unusual and Frightening Physics 101. To teach us the finer principles of physics he would bring in radioactive material for us to play with, boil plastic flamingos and even shoot off a gun (long before it was more...
How Are STD Tests Done Now?
By wisequack at November 25, 2011 | 6:55 pm | 0 Comment
“I’m here to get tested, doctor” “For what?” “I dunno, for everything I guess.” (“Everything,” I have come to learn, depends on the age, sex and very recent lifestyle of the author of the request.) “So, Mr. Bloggins, everything, of course, includes a pregnancy test, a prostate check, a Pap smear, a ...” “Well, no,… I mean… umm… I met more...
A Trip to the Dentist May Help Your Bald Patch
By wisequack at October 16, 2011 | 6:34 am | 0 Comment
Did you know that in some cases, going to your dentist may be better than seeing your physician for certain types of hair loss? Alopecia areata is the name given to a disorder when there is a rapid onset of a sharply defined, rounded (usually) bald patch...kind of like a mysterious crop circle on the scalp or other parts of the body. In most instances, it is thought more...
Dandruff
By wisequack at September 25, 2011 | 1:51 pm | 0 Comment
For more than two thousand years myth information about bloodletting had wealthy Europeans attempting to rid the body of “excess blood caused by excess food”. The favored method for bloodletting, prior to leeches, the NHL and tax collectors was a bimonthly trip to the barber. Barbaric barbers from the Barbary Coast to Barbados had the zippiest razors for slicing more...
Music As Medicine
By wisequack at June 6, 2011 | 9:00 pm | 0 Comment
While rotating through assorted subspecialties as a medical student, I spent two-months on a geriatric psychiatry ward, a sobering glimpse of my own destiny. Occasionally I would wander into the inpatient’s lounge and tickle the ivories. I am not a great pianist, but given that my audience was seriously medicated and their hearing aids squealed like fire alarms, to more...
Top 10 Myths About Organ Donations
By Wisequacks at April 24, 2011 | 1:26 am | 0 Comment
1) YOU’RE TOO OLD TO DONATE Despite the fact that you might feel that your meat is no longer Grade A, there is somebody waiting for your leftovers Everybody is considered a potential donor regardless of age or medical history Your general condition at the time of your death (which I assume would be deadly) is more important than your past history (including more...
Michael Jackson’s white glove
By Wisequacks at April 20, 2011 | 6:08 pm | 0 Comment
Dr Sealey gets completely fooled as he learns the definition of vitilgo as the Wisequacks discuss skin pigmentation and the real reason for Michael Jackson wearing a glove is more...
Bunged or loose
By Wisequacks at April 20, 2011 | 5:29 pm | 0 Comment
Diarrhea and constipation discussion will prepare you for any intimate dinner more...
Fibroids
By Wisequacks at April 20, 2011 | 5:27 pm | 0 Comment
Fibroids are the bane of millions of women and thousands of men. Learn what causes them and how to get rid of them..or more...
Useless organs by useless organs
By Wisequacks at April 20, 2011 | 3:20 pm | 0 Comment
Vestigiality is discussed in a manner that will make you realize how much of you is really as useless as your Grade 6 teacher told you you were. Do not let your appendix or tailbone listen to this one or they will get goosebumps...which are also more...
