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Mistake of the Week #9

I will not single anybody out, but it seems like every weekend one of us docs gets a call between midnight and 4am from a patient who says they are too full.  The most common thing they say is that they’ve felt too tight since their fill earlier in that week, but that they thought [...]

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Mistake of the Week #8

I have a magnet on my fridge right at eye level.  It has a picture of an extremely fit/athletic woman and it says, “What you eat in private, shows up in public.” I thought about this when a patient came in recently, angry because she wasn’t losing weight.  She had eaten a large fast-food lunch [...]

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Mistake of the Week #5

I’ve heard it hundreds of time and who knows? One time might have been from you…. I didn’t lose anything this last time because it was my birthday/anniversary/first vacation in years/groundhog day/national ear-pickers association meeting….. and I naturally just ate too much. So my mistake of the week is this:  WHATEVER FOOD IT IS – [...]

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Mistake of the Week #2

Today I saw a nurse in our office (I won’t rat out her name) putting peanut butter on a slice of white bread for lunch.  Actually, two pieces and about 4 tablespoons of peanut butter, total.  When asked about her somewhat bare bones lunch, she stated that she was on a diet and she was eating [...]

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