Bad Tad, MD

Author: Tad

  • Duffle Bag

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    I have made a couple of duffles, both by special order. One for my daughter, Hilary, which is pictured here. I made another for my friend, Rick, who lives in Reno. He keeps his falconry equipment in it and carries it with him when he flies his falcons.

  • You Let Them Do That to You in Jail?

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    I had a twenty-year-old man come in worried about an infection in his penis. While recently incarcerated, he had agreed to let a fellow inmate perform surgery on him. An incision was made in the skin of the shaft of his penis. The “scalpel” was a toothbrush handle that had been sharpened by rubbing it…

  • Cardamom Chocolate Chip Cookies

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    My mother-in-law has a cookbook called Bill Taylor Makes Desserts. I have tried several of his cookie recipes and this is the best and most interesting. I have not used a lot of cardamom. In fact, when I found this recipe and decided to try it, I went looking in the cupboard for cardamom. Sure…

  • Happy Bag Owners from Around the World

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  • Sweet Cough Syrup from a Pediatric Death

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    We rarely have pediatric deaths in the emergency department and some of my most painful emergency physician memories are of having to tell parents their child is dead. We had a three-year-old die this last week. The father brought him in lifeless. We started CPR, put a tube in his airway to press oxygen into…

  • Totally Chocolate Chip Cookies

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    Recipe By: We were invited to an open house by our friends, Tammy and Alex. We went to offer best wishes to their daughter, Ashley, before she left to do missionary work in Moscow. There, we had these cookies, which were made by their friend, Nigella Lawson. They were so good, I insisted they get…

  • My First Bag

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    This is the very first bag I ever made. My wife, Shari, still uses it as a back up bag and won’t think of getting rid of it because it was my very first. It was weaved where as most of my bags now are made with the straps sewn in parallel. When it got…

  • No Surgery for Chest Pain

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    My patient was a man who had torsion of his testicle, resulting in the testicle being dead and needing to be removed surgically. I called the urologist in to see and admit him for surgery. After seeing the patient, the urologist came up to me and told me the patient had refused to talk to…

  • Smelly Man

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    He was a most pitiful man. He was about sixty-years-old and had suffered a stroke in the past. He was in the emergency department after being found down drunk and unable to walk. Because of his previous stoke, he had a big challenge walking – even with his cane. It didn’t take too much booze…

  • A Cool Little Bag with Plastic Handles

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    Other than the thread, everything I use in the bags is recycled/reused/repurposed. This includes these cool handles I got at RAFT (Resource Area for Teachers.)