Uh, I'm going to uh...blame that on the not-so-smartphone. You'd believe that, right?

Wouldn't surprise me, we are in a constant war with a rapidly evolving enemy. Actually, I just got info the other day that the norovirus (a shit-and-vomit-producing virus of which we are currently having a pandemic of in the Charlotte-to-Raleigh area) is impervious to alcohol-based sanitizers. Of course, virii don't…

Who ya gonna call?

Barf.

All my life I got pretty much beat up and abused by my alcoholic stepfather who HATED the fact I always had my nose in a book or was drawing rather than playing football or something that he approved of. After 15 years of being told I was a worthless piece of crap that would never amount to anything, I ran off and…

Who actually handwrites prescriptions anymore? Most electronic medical records allow ePrescribing which has the benefit of being printed, not handwritten. Also, they tend to have built-in screening software to point out any potential interections between multiple medications, both on the physicians end and at the…

So, alcohol-based hand cleaners work by dissolving the lipid envelope of the infectious bugaboo. It's not an antibiotic, it's an antiseptic agent. Unless the physical properties of the universe change, alcohol will always dissolve lipid bilayers.

I bought a used Jeep Wrangler in 1994. It's sitting in my garage at the moment. It was my daily driver up until 2010.

In the end, it's pretty simple, the cost of content for their streaming service went up, way up; like extortion up.

Stephen King also wrote a short story that he said he plaigarized "La Jetee" for. I think it's called "The Jaunt" about the invention of a Star Trek-like transporter system, but you have to be knocked unconscious before you go through it because the mind intreprets the near-instant travel as near-eternity.

I LIKE my coffee to be a gritty bitter experience. It lets me know what the day has in store for me, puts hair on my chest, and makes me feel like a cowboy. As a medicine intern on hour 27 of a shift, I was perfectly happy drinking the tar-like swill out of the bottom of a pot that had probably been on the warmer for…

to quote Bill the Cat: "Accckkk. THHhhhppt!

Zanzan42 is correct, but fails to discuss the rest of the testing process. For almost any situation you are screening for- be it PED, HIV, Diabetes, prostate cancer, whatever - there is a SCREENING test and a VERIFICATION testing. The point of a screening test is to not miss anyone who might have the condition, in…