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I was blessed to be greatly influenced by a wonderful physician. He was truly a giant, but some would not know that, and he would even perhaps deny it. He was divisive, to be sure — either loved or hated, never in between, but always respected. He put the patient first at all costs. He would relate walking by a hospital room, with a patient alone on a bedpan, shouting for help, with no one to help her. Because of this, he was on the cutting edge of the outpatient surgery center movement, due to better costs but also better...

I have had what seems like the flu or 2 or 3 weeks. It is a killer sore throat, moderate cough. But it is the sore throat that is killing me. Anyway, I just dragged myself out to Trader Joe's to buy something tempting and thought I would check out their tiny medicine section. I saw and bought Oscillococcinum which was hiding on the bottoms half. I know nothing about it except what I just learned in Wikipedia. Does anyone have experience with this stuff. The Amazon page with photos http://www.amazon.com/Boiron-Oscillococcinum-Flu-like-Symptoms-Pellets/dp/B0078W0QOI

For years, researchers have wondered about a connection between children getting strep throat and later showing symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a frequently debilitating condition affecting millions of Americans in which those afflicted think repetitive thoughts they don’t want to or perform compulsive, ritualistic behaviors they wish they didn’t have to— ..." The thinking has been that strep throat bacteria trigger the production of antibodies that end up not only targeting strep, but “mistakenly” acting on an enzyme in the brain, which is involved in making brain chemical messengers. In so doing, the antibodies to the strep...

A Catholic camp for boys in Gilmanton ended a session one week early because of "a number of illnesses running rampant" among campers, a diocese spokesman said. Ten campers had gone home and an additional 12 were sick at camp when the director of Camp Fatima ended a two-week session Friday, said Kevin Donovan. The illnesses included one confirmed case of swine flu as well as another flu strain, pinkeye, strep throat and upper respiratory infections, he said. Most of the 276 campers went home, although some who live far away and plan to attend the next session remain, he...

Coroner says common bacteria killed Antioch girl By Sandy Kleffman CONTRA COSTA TIMES ANTIOCH - The mystery is solved. Experts at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta have discovered what killed 7-year-old Jessie Geyer of Antioch. But the answer causes even more anguish for her parents. Jessie died from a group A streptococcal infection that spread throughout her body. A CDC fact sheet describes it as a common bacterium that doctors treat with antibiotics. Although her parents rushed Jessie to a pediatrician and a hospital emergency room two days before her death, no one gave her...

Strep Bacteria Resist AntibioticsApril 19, 2002, 4:41 PM EDT For the first time, doctors have documented a large-scale U.S. outbreak of antibiotic-resistant strep throat -- an episode involving at least 46 Pittsburgh schoolchildren. Until now, antibiotics have easily killed group A streptococcus, the bacteria that cause strep throat and life-threatening septic infections, so doctors at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh were startled by its sudden, widespread resistance to widely used erythromycin. The drug is commonly given to people allergic to penicillin and other patients. Doctors suspect the strep bacteria also are becoming resistant to other popular drugs in the same antibiotic...