OK, you got here to my website. If it was on purpose, then you might just want to know a little about me. If it was not on purpose, you might want some good reasons to high-tail it out of here as quick as possible. If you are an insomniac, you might want something to help you sleep better. This post should do the job for all of you. Here’s who I am:
- I say I am 5’10′, but that’s probably not true any more.
- I blogged for a long time at Musings of a Distractible Mind
- A lot of people read that blog and it was a lot of fun to write, but then I kind of got muddle-headed and started getting brain cramps
- Then I took some time out to clear my head and reset my priorities
- I’m not sure I cleared my head, but my priorities are a bit better than they were
- Clear heads are probably over-rated
- I now blog in two locations: I write a new blog called More Musings (of a Distractible Kind) which is pretty much volume 2 of the old blog, and I write a poetry blog called Llamaricks.
- I once had a penguin named “Bucky”
- I am one of those strange doctors who actually likes using a computer to do records. I have been successful enough to win some award thingies and get elected to some other stuff, but I really just care about making things work better.
- I am frustrated by our system and how it hurts my patients.
- I own a couple of mock-turtlenecks, but not because I admire Steve Jobs or want to be like him.
- Steve Jobs never owned a penguin named “Bucky”
- I am married and have four kids.
- My age is in the same zip code as that number which is half way to 100.
- I have a beard and it is turning gray. I will probably shave it off if people mistake me for Santa.
- Santa never had a penguin named “Bucky”
- When I write, I don’t do it with a lot of planning. I just sit down and write what comes out of me. That’s why it is so random.
- I sometimes correct the typos, but most of the time I see them a few months after I wrote a post.
- I was on “This American Life” for a five minute segment. I got to talk to Ira Glass for an hour, though.
- Ira Glass doesn’t have a penguin named “Bucky.”
- I am trapped in a house that would make a good special for HGTV: Money Vacuums: Houses that Suck
- I did a podcast for Quick and Dirty Tips for a while.
- I never gave dirty tips, and being quick has always been difficult for me.
- I was kidding about the penguins. I know, I know; penguins are nothing to kid about. My mom told me that all the time.
Annette September 13, 2012 at 3:22 pm
I used to read your musings blog often and called it patient education.
People should comment more on blogs.
I sent in pictures of our deck to Disaster Decks so the TV people would fix it.
I hope your house stops sucking up all your money
My postal code is in the middle of the alphabet.
So we have more in common than I thought, except for you winning prizes and acclaim for your very interesting social media projects, and having more kids and very few turtlenecks
Annette
cindy October 8, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Told my son (who’s gonna be a doctor, gotta be from the north to get it) about your new practice. Loves doc’s that think out of box. Sometimes I think you have a whole storage room of those. He’s starting to follow your websites. In the mean time he is controlled by government BS as he puts it. Thinks your ideas are going to be the future. Happy someone is leading the way and trying to make a change in the way you/and hopefully other young doctors practice medicine. Told me it thought it took guts and some big k——’s. He as I do wish you and your family only the best.
Rob October 8, 2012 at 7:23 pm
I appreciate that. I hate being in boxes and beat my ways out of them. It’s certainly not fun to have to show guts, though. I don’t recommend either the guts or the K—’s being required to be of unusual size.
Dan Pearson December 2, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Hi! Congratulations on your still-new endeavor. I think you’re going in the right direction, but even so it was a brave move. I wish you the best.
Hope you get to see the Medical Examiner from time to time. Would you be interested in doing a brief Q&A format thing about flu shots? I’ll send you Qs and you send me As? And you can add any Qs I left out. You can post it on your blog and I in the M.E. Sound like a plan? (I don’t have you email address any more. Mine is, well, you do have mine.)
robin holloway December 31, 2012 at 11:16 am
Dr. Rob – what a funny, uplifting site. I arrived here after googling about bronchitis, and am still chuckling. Thanks for this site, and your prose.
Love the new model for your practice. Wishing you much success – but not too much that you don’t have time to continue writing. Laughter is also great medicine.
Paul January 11, 2013 at 8:38 am
Got to your site via KevinMD, very interesting, I wish you good fortune and health during the New Year, with your new endeavor!
Denham Pole April 25, 2013 at 9:47 pm
An interesting approach to primary care. Should I call it ‘General practice by telemedicine”? Seems to be an appropriate addition to the Facebook-age. Should also cut down on cross-infection (when I hear of unventilated British GP waiting rooms where pregnant women sit near coughing kids with german measles). With the bird-flu epidemic looming, might it also be a good model for veterinary practice? The next step might be for your patients to be fitted up with remote sensors to allow preventative medicine before they even know their tread-mill is giving them a bit of ST-elevation or their fasting blood sugar is approaching the red-line. Only problem I can see is that you yourself risk being replaced by an intelligent computer.