She must have taken a tumble, just like all little ones do.
That’s what Jerad Ewing thought when his 3-year-old daughter, Ava, complained of soreness in her hip area.
That soreness she first experienced in 2010 turned out to be Stage IV neuroblastoma, a rare and often deadly form of childhood cancer.
Do you have a guess what is behind the government’s push for electronic medical records? Easier access fpr doctors and patients? Better care? Nice guesses. It is lousy handwriting, according to many doctors, that is actually behind the push.
After six months of studying Dr. Dipak Desai as he lived in a nuthouse in Sparks, three of the state’s best shrinks recently concluded, in effect, that he knows the difference between an outhouse and a courthouse, that he remains competent enough to tell his lawyer, Richard Wright, to keep stalling so he doesn’t go to trial.
Like most people, Dr. Joseph Thornton, an associate professor at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, laughs at jokes about hemorrhoids, even appreciating the down-home wisdom some one-liners provide: “Hemorrhoid patients never play musical chairs.” But he also is the first to say that humor revolving around hemorrhoids is funnier if you don’t have the ailment.
