Doctor Steve - Healthcare for the Rest of Us

I’ll post a blog of the whole weekend in the next few days.  For right now, here’s the link to the Carl Sagan mashup I mentioned on the air (thanks to Chris Stanley from Ron and Fez for this link):

See? I’m trying to put some content on this awful website now that we’re NOT ALLOWED TO POST OUR OWN SHOW anymore. Don’t forget the November 7th LIVE “Weird Medicine”, 9pm-MN Eastern on XM202, Sirius 197.

If you listened to our last show (if you didn’t, I’m sure if you look (bit torrent) around, you may be able to find it somewhere (bit torrent)), you heard the piece we did on Trucker Health.   We got a ton of response to this and the best came from Brett and Joy, who are a husband and wife …

Desiree Jennings developed severe side effects from the flu shot she received seven weeks ago, according to the Loudon Times-Mirror.

Before she received the shot, Jennings said she was very healthy and training for a half-marathon. Jennings also was an ambassador for the Washington Redskins, a training program to become a cheerleader.

But 10 days after receiving the flu shot, Jennings said she started experiencing flu-like symptoms.

Jennings’ physical therapist, who works at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, said the woman has dystonia, a disorder where muscle contractions cause involuntary body jerks and repetitive movements.

“You realize your life is never going to come …

Well, we now are under contract with Sirius/XM (yep, we’re working on our third year doing shows for them without a contract, but that’s another story). One of the “benefits” of being under contract is that we no longer “own” the audio we produce for their platform. And since we don’t “own” it, we can’t post it here. Or anywhere. How do you get to listen to a show that airs at MIDNIGHT on weekends if you actually have a life? Well, …

It was with great sadness that I learned that one of our favorite listeners passed away today. Barry Bender, AKA “Barry the Blade” was on our September 19th “Weird Medicine” show and was going to do an ongoing series about Trucker Hygiene for the show. Here’s a copy of the note his wife sent to me:

Hi Dr Steve

I know you don’t know me, but I am BarryTheBlade’s wife. Remember him, the trucker poop guy?

I know he informed you that he was feeling really sick via email. He came home a week ago and I …

I had just had my flu shot, and I was in a generally bad mood.  When the show was over I thought we (I) had shit the bed, BAD.   In the end I listened to it Live on the Air and it wasn’t half bad!  Actually it has some great stuff on it.

We’re just gearing up for the Nov6 O&A show, and the Nov 7th 3 hour weird medicine.   We have a great rundown already.   Just looking for good bumper music;  anyone know the band “Fuck the Facts”?   I’d love to have them in studio “unplugged”.

If we can do the …

We did a new show for this weekend; after doing the 3 hour turdtacular you’d think doing an hour would be a breeze. However, I just had my flu shot and my damn allergies are killing me and Jefferson has Whooping Cough (I kid you not) and I was just totally out of sorts. Matter of fact, don’t even listen to it, I’m sure it’s that bad.

Next time, though, NOTHING but voicemails; we have a million of ‘em to cover and I promise it’ll be a better show.

I got a tweet from a very …

Well, the 3 hour Weird Medicine on the SNV is complete and the feedback was pretty good.   Listening to it, I think the last 2/3rds was better than the first 1/3rd.  We enjoyed doing it, and it was great practice for the Nov 7th LIVE show, and for the Nashville shows that are yet to come (also LIVE).   Who knew Lady Trucker’s doodies would make her a star?  (BTW, you can follow her on Twitter…she’s awful, and that’s why I love her.)

Also, to show how incestuous this business is, I got a call from Mike Opelka, AKA “STUNTBRAIN” …

The CDC states that the “vast majority” of H1N1 cases have been sensitive to Oseltamivir, the generic name for Tamiflu, an antiviral medication that is used against influenza. This implies that there have been Tamiflu-resistant cases known to the CDC. This is in itself not unusual; influenza virus is known to rapidly mutate and when you’re talking about a population of billions in the world, it makes sense that the virus would “try out” some tricks here and there that would lead to drug resistance. Now a few of those cases are showing up clinically and have been in the …

I haven’t figured out how to let you just enter your cell phone number and my site will send it to you, but if you email this to yourself as an attachment you should be able to save it as a ringtone.   Or if you have a blackberry, just move it over with your USB cable (@stryker from Twitter tells me it works just by saving it in the browser.  I gotta upgrade my phone).

On Verizon, don’t use [my number]@vtext.com, rather use [mynumber]@vzwpix.com.

Anyway, RIGHT CLICK HERE and click “save target as…” and you’re all set.

Let me …