Mea sententia | Peter Elias, MD

My blog represents my personal experiences and perspectives. This includes many anecdotes from my medical practice. I have been scrupulous to anonymize these anecdotes and to avoid ever belittling or making fun of patients. (I often make fun of and criticize myself, my colleagues, and the institutions where I have worked.)

Frozen pipes and PTSD

PeterElias

5 Feb 2018

I know when and why I developed PTSD (Pipe Traumatic Stress Disorder).

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My nightmare on snowshoes

PeterElias

1 Feb 2018

I love to snowshoe in the fields and woods behind my house.

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My Marlboro moment

PeterElias

29 Jan 2018

If you grew up in a smoking household back in the 1950s, you probably experimented with cigarettes on the sly. I know I did, in elementary school.

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Bottlenecks

PeterElias

25 Jan 2018

The bottleneck is always the top of the bottle.

- Peter Drucker

leaders

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Lip swelling

PeterElias

22 Jan 2018

The message on my door was: “Mrs. Grantham wants biopsy report sent to dermatologist. None in her chart.”

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Argument

PeterElias

18 Jan 2018

"The aim of argument and of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

- Joseph Joubert

debate

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The enemy...

PeterElias

15 Jan 2018

We have met the enemy...

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Getting old

PeterElias

11 Jan 2018

“There’s no virtue in being old, it just takes a long time.” — Robert A. Heinlein

Melted candles

#MeToo

PeterElias

8 Jan 2018

Recent events and commentary have led me to revisit and reprocess my personal experience of being the target of sexual harassment, something I have not spoken of for a quarter century.