Each winter, a group of bike teammates, who are really just friends, venture to Southern California for a week long bike trip. Our home base is Laguna Beach. Although, we are a road bike team, the bike of choice for training is the mountain bike. Local canyons and mountain ranges provide the terrain and scenery. […]
Say it isn’t so, Jim. It was a fun ride while it lasted. Jim Bunning is a US senator representing Kentucky. He is old, irascible, a former professional baseball player, and in past years he has partaken in much tomfoolery. Foolishness like proclaiming a dire medical prognosis on a supreme court judge, and the likening […]
The water is thick brown, and reportedly is only 2 degrees over its solid state. Standing on the dock in a bike kit and a wet life preserver, a coldness invades the core; a core which is busy preparing itself for the immediate future. Three, two, one and “PLUNGE” is heard. While in the air […]
Middle age introduces itself in many ways; one is atrial fibrillation. Youth, vigor and a medically-problem free life was seemingly right there in the recent past. A rhythm doctor often hears this suddenness of onset described as “Doc, yesterday, I was fine.” As is always the case for a first episode of an arrhythmia, yesterday, […]
He grabs your hand enthusiastically and looks you in the eye and says in the most convincing tone possible, “nice to meet you Doctor.” So it was at the Lincoln Day dinner given by the Republican Party of Jefferson County, (Louisville) KY. Staci and I were invited guests of the May’s, friends whom we […]
It is a Saturday morning in the Kentucky spring time and there are many like minded on the ride. First, turning circles in the vast parking lot of EP Tom Sawyer park waiting for our commander to give the word to proceed out into the green rolling hills. Soon, a humming of chains and clicking […]
The sun has long since set in the January dreariness that barely is visible through the rare window in the lead walls of the Cath Lab. The masses are home, the “squishers” are long since done, but two of the five rooms still toil. The rhythm doctors are still rolling -as it is frequently. Heart […]
An electrophysiologist studies the science of electricity in the heart. Although much is to be known, there seems little mystery when compared to the science of the youthful mind. With much grief this weekend we learned suicide is the third leading cause of death in adolescents. Of a runner, a cyclist, a friend, but mostly a […]
After a stressful first week at the new practice, here are three observations from a welcome Saturday: – The definition of a fine product – the Macbook: Having to wait in line to spend nearly 2000$. To Miss Amy at the apple store, “I am just here to buy a Macbook, I know the model […]
In the doctors lunch room… “Hey doc, are you riding your bike in this weather?” “It is the off-season, I am resting my body and exercising the mind.” A look of bewilderment, like what does “off season” mean? I quickly remember that “normal” people do not do this nonsense that is bike racing. Three months […]
A little self-absorption tonight. A pledge to keep this triviality to a minimum going forward, but it is my blog and herein lies the beauty of the blog-o-sphere. Tomorrow is my last day at my current job. I have worked with the same private practice group since 1996. The senior partner at the time, Dr […]