This topic has come up more than once with Dinner Table Doctor during the pandemic. Most recently we were having a simple alfresco snack of bread and cheese and wine with friends (recipe for a yummy cheese appetizer follows 😊). We were talking about Facebook and laughing at ourselves and others since we have all … Continue reading Experts Everywhere! The Dunning-Kruger effect is on full display
Author: TJC
Dancing All the Way to the Morgue
If you’ve ever taken a course of steroids, you may have fond memories of how wonderful they made you feel. Just a few days ago, our own president Trump remarked on how he felt better than he did 20 years ago while on treatment for the Corona virus. Although he didn’t directly attribute his statement … Continue reading Dancing All the Way to the Morgue
Are you Health Literate?
October is Health Literacy month, when all kinds of individuals and institutions from libraries to hospitals to doctors and schools call attention to the problem of health literacy and try to promote solutions. Information about health is difficult for many people to understand and therefore to act upon. The internet is full of misinformation, and … Continue reading Are you Health Literate?
Insomnia – Steps for a good night’s sleep
Last night around 2AM I lay in bed wondering if Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston might actually get back together. Then I wondered if anyone thought to lock the back door and what I should make for dinner that evening. I wrote two short stories in my head and I decided exactly what I should … Continue reading Insomnia – Steps for a good night’s sleep
Lessons from Leukemia
September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month, and I am a leukemia survivor, so this topic has come up more than once during our recent family dinners. Dinner Table Doctor and I had a long discussion the other night about the valuable lessons we have learned from my leukemia diagnosis. We were alone, which happens a … Continue reading Lessons from Leukemia
A Missed Dinner Party: how amnesia changed our plans
** Although I don't normally say who I'm writing about in these posts, in this instance my mom gave me full permission! One evening, Dinner Table Doctor never made it to the dinner table, but we still had one of our more interesting medical discussions. A few years ago DTD and I were just about … Continue reading A Missed Dinner Party: how amnesia changed our plans
Freaky Friday – Intense Exercise vs. Snakes in the Kitchen
Every evening before dinner, DTD comes home from work and exercises. He is very disciplined and rarely misses a day. He will frequently remind the rest of the family that we each need 30 minutes of exercise a day and much of that should be moderate to high intensity, meaning we need to get into … Continue reading Freaky Friday – Intense Exercise vs. Snakes in the Kitchen
Freaky Friday – Tonsil Stones
Recently we had a houseguest who shared that she had an annoying tonsil stone. I had never heard of such a thing. Of course, Dinner Table Doctor knows all about them and I made him explain in great detail. Tonsil stones (or tonsilloliths if you want to impress people at a party) are bits of … Continue reading Freaky Friday – Tonsil Stones
Freaky Friday – My Ugly Tongue
Here’s a freaky medical condition which I suffer from myself - a fissured tongue. All of my life my tongue has looked strange. It is not smooth like most peoples’ but rather has lots of little fissures or cracks. It has a deep groove down the middle, so deep that it almost looks like I … Continue reading Freaky Friday – My Ugly Tongue
Hair-Raising Stress
Due to the pandemic, we haven’t had many dinners with friends and extended family. Our topics of conversation have been limited with the same five people, three of whom actively avoid bringing up any medical matters that might result in a lecture about fiber or exercise! As a result, I need my readers to let … Continue reading Hair-Raising Stress
