A Happy Hospitalist: Four Stages Of Life

Notable Quotables

And I also wanted you to know that your jogging log was among my inspirations to give up the couch potato lifestyle and start jogging myself this summer. I've lost 20 pounds, my BMI has gone from 30 to 27, I have more energy, and I can tuck in my shirts now. Thanks! --- Scalpel Sept 2008

If you feel tainted by your association with human scum, go open a concierge practice in a wealthy neighborhood and stop ranting about how much better you are than others, and how under-appreciated you are by society--anonymous Sept 2008

Happy. You remind me of an "elite wanna be".--anonymous Sept 2008

"I'm not an economist..." Really? I couldn't tell by your little story that tries to explain the U.S. economy through a metaphor about some guys drinking at a bar. Stick to talking about medicine.--Anonymous October 2008

People like you choose to look past all of the advantages you were given that others were not and you ignore the good luck that you enjoyed in your haste to pat yourselves on the back and give self-serving lectures about how important it is for you to keep your precious money and not give any of it back to the country which allowed you to earn it in the first place. I'm glad you're not my doctor. An angry anonymous--November 2008

I'm disappointed with your new profile picture. I thought the guy with the long curly hair was you and I pictured him as being really hot. Every blog entry I read here (if I read anymore) are now tainted with the knowledge that the hot guy is not, in fact, you. Thanks.--Anonymous November 2008

Aside from some mediocre writing and way too many ads, Happy seems to be a competent internist specializing in the care of hospitalized patients. --Dinosaur November 2008

Screw you Happy Hospitalist. --America November 2008

You are a fu*king tool--Anonymous December 2008

"I Was Lied To Over And Over Again " Another great blog post. Your collected writings could make a book in the manner of Atul Gawande's -- if you could only find a co-author. BTW it is not "likely hood" but "likelihood"--Anonymous December 2008

That's one of the most arrogant things you've said lately--Nurse K Jan 2009

When Happy gets a bug up his ass, Nurse K, he tends to ramble.--Dr Dinosaur January 2009

Just thought I would drop you a note and let you know that I added a link to your blog from mine. Found you to be too damn interesting to pass up--Rants of a Jewish Republican

You, sir, are an insensitive ass whose bedside manner needs a major tune-up-- Omnibus Driver April 2009

OK, now it is official. You're a tool.--cynic, May, 2009

After reading several of your postings, I have come to the conclusion that your are a self-important asshole. You are a classic example of the doctor with a God complex. I feel extremely sorry for the patients that you treat. --Lab Tech, July 2009

This is How I Jog

2008 605 miles, 6200 minutes

January 58 miles, 612 minutes

February 64 miles, 682 minutes
March 42.1 miles, 597 minutes

April 60.9 miles, 623 minutes

May 96.8 miles, 1189 minutes

June 58.9 miles, 683 minutes

July 1: 3.7 miles, 35 minutes

July 2: 2.9 miles, 51 minutes

July 3: 5.1 miles, 48 minutes

July 5: 3.2 miles, 29 minutes

July 5: 1.7 miles, 34 minutes