We had a visit from the ladies in our groups’ coding department the other day - with the scary news that Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has appointed some 1,600 auditors.

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 My schedule in the office has a couple of annual physicals a day, in the course of which I get to see some mighty schlongs and some teeny wieners in the part of the exam where we check the family jewels.

As I rummaged around the other day in the course of doing a physical on this guy, with my mind not entirely on the job, I found myself ruminating on the issue of how much a mans self esteem is tied up with the size of his penis - and how misguided this is. Read the rest of this post here »

 Jerome K Jerome was my farther favorite author. He particularly enjoyed “Three Men in a Boat”. He was also a doctor and I fancy he, like I, particularly liked the section where the narrator goes through the medical dictionary. Like the experience of every medical student, he is convinced he has each and every ailment he reads about.

I’ve often though hypochondria and stupidity are a bad combination.

Jerome K. Jerome doesn’t comment on the hypochondriacs. But he does express his endearment to the intellectually challenged in one of his famous, if scurrilous quotes.

“It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.”