In My Opinion

Ennio Morricone died this week.   What does that have to do with Nexium and other proton pump inhibitors?  Stay with me.   Ennio Morricone was a composer probably best known for his haunting score of The Mission.  Here is a synopsis of his…

Want to know your blood type?  Curious if you have antibodies against Covid-19 (even though we aren’t sure what those results might mean)?  Donate blood.  The hospitals are full up and need blood for critically ill patients that require transfusion. …

Whenever I have occasion to pass a flower arrangement, it’s my habit to smell the flowers. Unfortunately, roses are grown now for show and not for fragrance. I can’t always smell them and since Covid-19 has become a presence in…

When I was a kid, I would walk down the street to my grandmothers house to visit.  She subscribed to Reader’s Digest and I would flip through them at articles like ” I am Joe’s Kidney”. But my favorite section…

Here are three new things on Covid-19.  Congratulations to Jim Berg! Jim was found to have positive antibodies to Covid -19 several months  after getting sick while skiing in Colorado in early March. Jim has been donating plasma which is…

Hot on the heels of “What blood type am I?”, “Should I be tested?”, we have “Do I need an MMR?”.  That stands for Measles, Mumps and Rubella, a live viral vaccine given during childhood.  This is the latest darling…

This summer marks the 45th anniversary of the movie Jaws.  What does that have to do with Covid-19?  A month ago I told patients that if they avoided jails, meat packing plants and nursing homes that they stood a pretty…

Here is a scenario with which I have been presented four or five times today and every day for the last 10 days. I ( we) were with some friends last weekend and they had been with some other friends …