A Doctor's "Secret" Health Notes

April 16th Removed a lump from a female's neck today. Likely of fat origin - A Lipoma. Oh, yes. Good news. Remember the other neck swelling? Well, the histology report makes it out to be - I'll spare you the jargon - a Tuberculous neck tumour. Now, that's much more favourable than a Cancer, obviously. He'll live. By the way, the gentleman is a Reverend, though I suspect it's one of those "ceremonial" types. April 15th Boring day managing out-patients . . . The stitches came out today and the pretty patient discharged. I refer to the Appendectomy case I did 7 days ago. Truth be told, same way I confessed to Dr Larry, that I quite admire the young lady. That is to say, from a certain anatomically provocative perspective. It goes no further however, for I am sworn to an oath as you well may know. Two oaths in fact, in that same regard, for I am married. April 13th I'm still weekending and off-duty. Read all about Al Capone on the web, wow! Real -life dram...

April 4th This 4 year-old boy was brought in as an emergency having been pelted inside a moving vehicle driven by the mum. He was quite shaken-up but rather stable. His mum was a little apprehensive but mostly quiet. The boy however, had a bruising with tenderness around the left shoulder that was confirmed through X-rays to be a Fracture of the left collar bone. Well, I applied a figure-of-eight bandage around those little shoulders. It's noteworthy here that this accident could have been prevented by the usage of a child-restraining device. Bad mum, I must say. April 4th He may well survive afterall, this gentleman whose right-sided neck tumour we removed surgically 10 days back and who had his stitches out today. Was it a Tuberculous growth or a Cancer? The histology report of tissue samples taken and sent, will determine its exact nature. The report is expected anytime soon. I discharged the patient with the left scrotal swelling today. There was a hitherto ...