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I have this friend named Shannon ”The Cinema Warrior” and he’s a genius.  His interests are GrindCore music, Troma Films, and legalizing marijuana.  I thought it’d be fun to just geek out and talk about BattleStar Galactica, David Lynch movies, and the medical use of marijuana (I mean, the show IS called “Weird Medicine” after all). 

Check out Shannon’s stuff at http://www.saturdaynightgrindhouse.com  (up sometime this month), and http://www.myspace.com/tromaworld.  

The comic and game shop we mention is http://www.dewaynes-world.com.  Possibly the greatest shop of its kind in the country.

 Hope you enjoy it!

John and I really wanted to do this tonight, but it’s mostly impromptu (which you can tell). 

Anxiety is a huge problem worldwide, and people who don’t suffer from it have trouble understanding those who do.  Also, it’s extremely treatable.  We may be able to do a better job on the podcast (ugh, the worst outtro ever), but the sentiment is there.
We love our friend Fezzie and if this helps anyone at all, it’s because of our high regard for him.

Well here it is, the nerve-laden second segment of the Weird Medicine Addendum.  I think with this one, we’ve answered all the emails, posted a few to our forum,  and answered the rest in our podcasts.  We’re experiencing some growing pains;  I need to buy new microphones for the “stu-stu-studio” because the ones we’re using are crap and pick up every touch and every paper rattle and every breath…ugh, they just sound awful.  On top of that, Jill and John are sharing a mic and I’ve been too lazy to add a third headset so John’s doing without.  

 Topics in this podcast …

Well, I got diagnosed with this thing called “posterior uveitis”;  it’s a really crummy inflammation of the retina that made my vision go from 20/20 to 20/200 in a week.  I tell you this not to garner sympathy, but to try out embedding video into this blogsite. 

Pray, kids, that you never get “posterior uveitis”, because this is what they do to you when you do:

yes indeedy, an INJECTION of steroids IN YOUR EYEBALL.

 Nice!

 Then I had to go back and do it again…this time with a little more direct approach.  …

For some reason, we were nervous doing this podcast.  Maybe it was flashbacks to doing the show live on XM, maybe it was having John’s lovely wife PA Jill in the studio with us for the first time.  Anyway, we got through about half the questions when I started getting cell phone calls and beeps from the hospital.  Being the professionals that we are, we cut the show short.  We’ll do “Part 2″ later this week.

Enjoy;  let us know how you like the podcast.  We have tons of these “in the can” that we made while we were practicing for our XM …

I have been furiously trying to answer all of the questions we received by email during the last Weird Medicine broadcast.  It’s just not fair to solicit email questions on the air and then never get to them;  we’ve been answering them as we can, and we’ve posted a couple of the more interesting ones to the forum section.

However, it’s just crazy to try to answer all of these emails this way, and as things progress it’ll get even harder.  PA John and I actually have “real” jobs that take up 60+ hours a week, plus we have families and …

It’s amazing how quickly three hours can slip by.   The sophomore edition of Weird Medicine went pretty well;  it was a lot more serious this time than last, and PA John and I have some ideas for making the third edition better and more fun.   The word “Sophomore” means “learned fool” and I think that applied pretty well to us.

 First we did about 30 minutes on O&A.  I found to my dismay that my “bit” is to do rectal exams on the staff and interns.  I sort of remember begging for a new “bit” on the air (ideas of any …

We have been working hard behind the scenes to tie up some loose ends around the website and are happy to provide our new HealthcareForums for everyone’s enjoyment.

Lastly, we now have a RSS Feed that will allow you to stay updated on all of the happenings here at DoctorSteve.com via a feed reader like Netvibes or Google Reader.

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Dear Doctor Steve: My brother had colon cancer at age 45.My doctor wants me to have a colonoscopy (I’m 47), but the thought of it just creeps me out. Is there any way I can get out of it? — Goatweed

Dear Goatweed, if indeed that is your real name:

Colonoscopy is a relatively simple procedure, actually. Taking a four-foot fiber optic tube, the colonoscopist looks at every inch of your large intestine, starting from the rectum and finishing in the first part of the colon, called the cecum. (By the way, do you know the definition of a colonoscope? It’s a …

By popular demand, here is the theme music for the XM Satellite Radio show, “Weird Medicine,” written by Sean Hurley and performed by Ron and Fez regular contributor Sherwin Sleeves.