Doctor Steve - Healthcare for the Rest of Us

We tried to do a few new things this time, some things worked and some things didn’t.  Believe me, we learned a lot from the experiments we tried, and this will just make subsequent Weird Medicine shows that much better. 

 First we hit O&A…prostate exams all around, but the most important …

Here was the promo for the June 21st Weird Medicine as it ran on XM 202.  This was the first time I attempted to do a real “production piece”.  Since then I bought a “real” microphone (CAD e100) to replace the CAD 22-A’s we’ve been using.  Hopefully production will sound a little better in the future.

Note: I had canned this post as “too serious” until Dave and Casey had a baby, along with Brother Joe, Sister Dawn, and probably pretty soon Ant and Jill.  So I figured I’d go ahead and post it.   Back to testicles, warts, hemorrhoids, and eyeball injections next post :-)  —Steve

 When my wife and I had our first child, we took some classes and read a pile of books.  We found two things that really made a difference in our lives:  scheduling and swaddling (more on swaddling later).  When it was time to have our second child, we realized that we’d …

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 …

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 …

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 …