New App: “Spy Doc”

App: “Spy Doc”   It was a Saturday morning, and I was in the grocery store, bright and early, trying to beat the sleepy head shopping crowd.  Shorts and sandals, baggy T – shirt, but I did take a shower before I left.  Turns out that was a good move. I was making good time, my cart was half full and I was on my way to a Saturday shopping success until I heard her shrill voice: “Well, hello Dr. Carso Read More

Invented a New App

While I admit I’m not much of a techie, I do the basics such as texting (learned that maybe 5 years ago), emailing, viewing video presentations/lectures on my I pad etc. Heck, I even learned how to post some of my work on my blog and I try to do twitter a little, but then, I don’t really get the silly twitter – shmitter. Maybe now you will understand my shortcomings when it comes to marketing my novel and Read More

A Good Number

A Good Number Not infrequently, I’m at a business establishment and I receive this question: “What is a good number for us to call you?” Now I don’t know about you, but I usually try to give nonexistent or disconnected numbers when I want to be called back. Right? In fact, I often try to leave a fax number for people to call so that I can destroy the caller’s fragile ears. Not uncommonly, I carry a lis Read More

Get your house in order!

What to do in the morning before you leave for work to avoid embarrassment: Since I’m a bachelor, I have total freedom to do what I want and when as well as how I want to do it in my house with no words from others to tell me otherwise. That is of course, unless the cat objects, in which case I just fight him for control of the Carson domestic kingdom. Sometimes I win. This freedom of course, has its advantages Read More

High Heimlich Anxiety

Although I am a physician, having stayed at a Holiday Inn Express before, I’m also a person too, believe it or not. I enjoy going out in public on occasion, showing my face to the real world, and sometimes that involves going to a grocery store, where invariably one of my patients interrupt me and talk about their problems, or they ask why my office didn’t call them yet about their test results. Invariably, t Read More

Losing Your Novel Writing Virginity: For Doctors

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LOSING YOUR NOVEL WRITING VIRGINITY: FOR DOCTORS Now that my novel writing virginity is lost forever, I can now speak with some expertise about the process. Well, maybe not that much expertise, but I’ve been knocked to the mat a few times and have had my prideful ego flushed down the toilet more times than I thought possible at various writing conferences and critique sessions. So now, just like doing procedu Read More

WELCOME TO THE HOTEL CALI – PUTIN

(You will sing along, all comrades know famous melody from America!) Verse 1 On a dark tundra highway, cool wind in his hairs Warm smell of police state, rising up through the air. Up ahead in the distance, he saw a shimmering light. His head grew larger and he spied new land. He had to stop for the night. There he stood in the doorway. He knew they wouldn’t tell. And he think to himself More land is heaven, I n Read More

MEDICAL STUDENTS GONE WILD PART ONE

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MSGW is the title of a new video documentary I’m producing, inspired by my friend’s recently released short film: “Kama Sutra King”. Just kidding of course, but it is kind of a good idea. My readers understand this is all in clean fun. Would Bill Clinton then ask for the definition of “clean”? But aren’t you proud that I posted a picture with this piece of out of this world, stunning, adjective &# Read More

Word vomit

                  Ok, a couple things bothered me today, and they had nothing to do with patients smoking and drinking too much and expecting me to cure them from their self –induced destruction with a pill or with surgery.  No, au contraire.  It had to do with stupid words health care professionals use in charts and it bugs me enough to bloviate about it.             Word # Read More