Halloween Health

It’s about the time for our annual frightfest – darkness will soon settle over us. Wails and shrieks will fill the air (and that’s just the moms wrestling kids into costumes). Here is a short checklist of practical healthy Halloween tips:

1) Visibility. This one’s a trick-y (ahem) subject with, oddly enough, older kids. [...]

Daylight Death…

It’s creeping up behind you, silent and sinister. It’s (buh buh BUH BUH) Daylight Savings Monday! Honestly, it’s no joke that more people die the Monday after we adjust clocks – and for tragically preventable reasons. Last March, when we were springing forward, the increase in deaths was due to road fatalities from decreased [...]

Emergi-Grand Rounds!

This week’s Grand Rounds is a treat for those who take the time to head over to Emergiblog and check it out. This week’s host, Kim, is a fun, personable, informed, and powerful voice in the increasingly crowded heathcare-blogging scene. This week she lines up the many zinger posts that were sent her way [...]

The Premiere of The Lost Tampon Video

How would you like to learn about the world’s most mysterious medical problem? Independent auditors from the accounting firm of Cost-Riverhut have verified that this video fully complies with the Doc Gurley Trademark Motto: Just a spoonful of humor helps the medicine go down. So take a few minutes to watch this Doc Gurley [...]

Altruism At Work

What if you only had 2 minutes to explain the importance of doing something good for the world? That’s the challenge present to me by the wonderful folks at WellSphere, when I was nominated for an Everyday Heroes Award. Take a minute (okay, two) and see my response, below:

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7 Days And Counting!

It’s a mere seven (count them, 7!) days until the World Premiere Red Carpet (okay, well, reddish – we’ve spilled some food on it) Launch of the first ever Doc Gurley video – The Lost Tampon! Helicopters are whirring overhead, papparazzi are milling outside, and numbered, engraved invitations have been sent…to YOU! Tune in [...]

We’ve lost our Dick…

Okay, so I was officially an Olympic-level grump for yesterday’s National Grouch Day. Our clinic lost a superb human being – and a wonderful clinician – to a sudden, untreatable paroxysm of (brace yourself for this one) retirement. Excuse me? How selfish is that? Doesn’t he know there are more important issues at stake [...]

Grand Rounds Goes To the Movies

Classical Music In The Park

Image by Photo Gallery via Flickr

Grand Rounds is back! And this time the host, T, of ‘Notes From An Anesthesioboist‘ (classical music while you go under? sounds lovely) is hosting in six parts, each introduced by a snippet from a classic movie.

It’s a HUGE list this time with tons and [...]

Unfortunate Quote of the Day

In a BBC news report on a preliminary research discovery that testicles may become a source for stem cells, Professor Robin Lovell-Badge (how British is that name?) is quoted as saying that further work needs to be done; therefore the issue “will have to be left dangling a little longer.” Could you turn your [...]

Calling Dr. Barbie

Here’s a truly provocative study – looking at whether or not reading a novel about positive images and weight loss can affect the weight of severely overweight tweens. And the answer is…(envelope please) YES. Turns out that girls who were randomly assigned to read a novel with positive messages and information about healthy weight [...]

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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.

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