And Now My Neck!

The last thing I wanted to do this month was go see a doctor but my neck started to act up so badly at work this past week that I had no choice. The doctor's assistant* looked me over and found no cause for alarm. But she did prescribe some pills and a muscle relaxing cream as well as a list of exercises for me to do in my spare time to build up my neck muscles. I also use a heating pad on my neck but so far the relief from neck pain has only been temporary. If I work long enough, it comes back.

If this keeps up, I may need to see a physical therapist. We'll see.

* Also a doctor, natch.

TV Quote of the Week

Doctors have plans and nurses do what works.
--Jessica Szohr, Complications, "Pilot"

Iconos de Cine (Doctors I)

¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Anton Chekhov!

AKA Antón Pávlovich Chéjov and Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.

Born January 29, 1860. Died July 15, 1904.

He was a famous Russian physician, writer and playwright who was most famous for such plays as The Seagull, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. At least one of those plays has been a big influence on my life if for no other reason that it taught me how often life does imitate art even when it does not intend to.

Anyway, Chekhov's work is still worth reading even though most of his current fame seems to be derived from having inspired the name of a certain Star Trek character. Oh, well. There are worse legacies.

Movie Quote of the Week

I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, Dennis, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God.
--Alec Baldwin, Malice (1993)

TV Quote of the Week

My dear girl, I am a doctor. When I peek, it's in the line of duty.
--DeForest Kelley, Star Trek, "Shore Leave"

Movie Quote of the Week

But society faces momentous decisions. Decisions about the right to die, about abortion, about terminal illness, prolonged coma, transplantation. Decisions about life and death. But society isn’t deciding. Congress isn’t deciding. The courts aren’t deciding. Religion isn’t deciding. Why?

Because society is leaving it to us, the experts. The doctors.
--Richard Widmark, Coma (1978)

¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Anton Chekhov!

AKA Antón Pávlovich Chéjov and Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.

Born January 29, 1860. Died July 15, 1904.

He was a famous Russian physician, writer and playwright who was most famous for such plays as The Seagull, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. At least one of those plays has been a big influence on my life if for no other reason that it taught me how often life does imitate art even when it does not intend to.

Anyway, Chekhov's work is still worth reading even though most of his current fame seems to be derived from having inspired the name of a certain Star Trek character. Oh, well. There are worse legacies.