On January 1, 2023, the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes aired a segment on Obesity. It featured a promising new weight loss medication that is in short supply and often is not covered by insurance. This was a good piece, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Elpern, David J.
Providing Hats and Sun Safe Information to Galveston’s Homeless
Practicing Safe Sun in Galveston Title: Providing Hats and Sun Safe Information to Galveston’s Homeless Andrea Francis BS1, Richard F. Wagner Jr MD21. The University of Texas Medical Branch, School of Medicine2. The University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of … Continue reading
The name — of it — is “Autumn”
Photos channeling Emily Dickinson taken on the weekend of October 8 – 9, 2002 in Williamstown, MA.
Protected: The American Academy of Dermatology’s Conflict of Interest Problem: a cross-sectional study
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Vaseline, Slugging and TikTok Docs
Videntium cave Vaseline, Slugging and TikTok Docs Makayla Power David J. Elpern Keywords, Vaseline, Aquaphor, CeraVe, social media, TikToc, xerosis, social influencers For 150 years, people been coating their faces and other body surfaces with Vaseline®, the ubiquitous, cheap, commonplace … Continue reading
Functional Dermatological Symptoms: Hiding in plain sight
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. – Hamlet (1.5.167-8) By David J. Elpern, M.D.The Skin Clinic 12 Meadow Street, Williamstown, MA 01267djelpern@gmail.com Keywords: medically unexplained symptoms, medically unexplained dermatological symptoms, … Continue reading
Helen Salisbury – Expressing Empathy
BMJ March 4, 2022 This is a short, helpful essay by an eminent British G.P. All of us can benefit from it. Se writes: “I spent many years as a medical teacher attempting to coach students in the art of … Continue reading
The world shut down
By Elise Danielle Machrone* The pandemic hit, the world shut downWhat should do stuck in my town?At first we smiled, gave high fivesNott knowing how long we we’d be trapped in our hives One case, two cases, three cases, fourWe … Continue reading
Palliative
Beneath our fingertips, your bruises ripen under lamplight.We offer you small morselsof grief – you takeinside your mouth.You offer usyour wound –Inside, the soul soaks in silence.Your body closes.We, who can offer younothing but facilitationsof pain, sit quietly amongthe whirring … Continue reading
The EMT, the Woman, and her Ankle
By David Williams* Abstract: An aged EMT learns that emergency medicine consists of more than controlling hemorrhage, dispensing nitroglycerin, and splinting bones. Occasionally, he finds that leading an active life yields rewards that cannot readily be measured. A Spartan race, … Continue reading