 Go to The Lost Tampon Video for practical tips, inside information, and real-life demonstrations – as well as a few chuckles.
Women’s Health News has an interesting topic and comments about what women go through when a tampon gets “lost.” So can a tampon head north for spring break? How far? Isn’t there a border check somewhere?
More importantly, what should you do if it happens to you? Assuming you don’t have male-plumbing, here’s the Doc Gurley take on the Lost Tampon situation:
Continue reading New Episode of Lost – The Tampon!
 Doc Gurley is off this week giving a talk about homelessness and HIV at the Wright School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio. But she is also thinking of you, her readers so she didn’t want to leave you completely in the dark. So here is a little retrospective of some of the ‘best’ Doc [...]
 Yes, my sweeties, we have (yet again!) gotten a question answered by Dave Barry himself (sound track: Doc Gurley maniacal cackling bwha ha ha) at the new and not improved Dave Barry For President Forum. What, you ask, could it concern?
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Submitted by Area 51 from Roswell, NM [<--that's me, [...]
 Doc Gurley 2008 Haiku: Cherry blossom bomb, Petal shrapnel pelts my hair, Trees shake with laughter.
It’s that time of year. Easter, spring break, and cherry blossoms. Take a moment (really, it won’t take long!) to write a haiku in honor of something you enjoy. It’s a great way to both lift your mood [...]
As you lie in the hospital bed, watching the crystal-clear fluid drip from the IV bag hanging overhead, or when you stand at your bathroom sink, palm up, ready to pop your $12 pill into your mouth, you can console yourself that these medicines are so expensive because they’re being made under the strictest, safest conditions known to humankind, can’t you?
Um, well, no. Not any more.
The recent deaths of 19 patients due to contaminated heparin are a scary wake-up call to the American public. For a look into the risks each of us is taking from medicine we get by vein or mouth, read this recent New York Times piece about the unregulated China-fication of the pharmaceutical industry. Here are some insomnia-inducing (can I safely take an Ambien for that?) highlights: Continue reading Is Your Medicine Contaminated?
 The sun is peeking out, buds are swelling and maybe you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed at getting your life in order during this time of seasonal renewal. Well, there’s one surefire, easy, effective way to address our universal longing for health and vitality–grab yer feedbag! The thorough folks at the Cochrane review put together [...]
With both David Paterson and his wife now admitting to having extramarital affairs, you have to wonder, what’s the difference between him and Eliot Spitzer. I mean, except for some measly “victimless” laws. After all, of the many, many things you can cuddle up to and get off on, the one thing we here in the Bay Area generally don’t embrace, is moral outrage.
But there is a big difference between the David Paterson scenario and the Eliot Spitzer approach. How do I, a lowly suburban heterosexual white woman–someone about as far demographically from these two men as a person can be–know this for sure?
See, I met my first prostitute when we were both pretty young. Continue reading Six Lessons I Learned From A Hooker
 How did we get stuck with menopause? I don’t mean the whole evolutionary argument about surviving-until-your-ovaries-quit-working. What I’m talking about, instead, is the label. Menopause has to be about the biggest downer of a name in the history of the world.
The thing that really sticks in my craw, speaking as a female member of the august medical profession, is that I’m pretty sure we’ve been stuck with the name “menopause” because of one annoyed, amorous male doctor, whose wife asked him in a moment of passion to hang on a sec until the hotflash passed.
Hence, “menopause.”
Besides, it’s just plain scientifically wrong. Continue reading Women’s History Month–Boycott Menopause!
 Here’s your chance! Read the article in either the San Francisco Chronicle, or the unedited version posted here, titled America–Most Expensive Pee In The World, then weigh in on the sanity of Doc Gurley–does she really think Big Pharma’s going to clean up its water-contaminating act?
Vote for one of the following: 1) clearly, [...]
 Salt-N-Pepa had it right in their classic 80′s hit: “Just push it…push it real good.” At least that’s what the Journal of the American Medical Association has to say today. A study looking at types of CPR after cardiac arrest found that if only chest compressions were done, the survival rate TRIPLED. The key [...]
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About The Author  Doc Gurley is a Board-certified Internist physician and the only Harvard Medical School graduate to have been awarded a Shoney’s Ten-Step Pin for documented excellence in waitressing. Find out more.Doc Gurley Library of Medeos
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