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NICK GOLINVAUX, MD March 9, 2024 Hi Reader, How is your week going? So far, I've had a productive one: I learned that Taylor Swift and poet Emily Dickinson are related. I accepted a generous invitation to be on an upcoming episode of an orthopedic surgery podcast (more details soon!). Due to popular demand, I wrote about upper extremity safety in the gym. If you workout regularly, you've surely had a hand or upper extremity twinge from time to time. It can be difficult to know...was that just...

January 11, 2024 | SUBSCRIBE Happy Saturday. This week I have a couple updates. This includes a slight change to my typical weekly deep dive. I've also completed work on my biggest deep dive (by far) to date. It's more of a mini-book than an article. But first, as a total non sequitur, I have to share something my friend recently brought up. "We all talk about unicorns being so magical and a thing of the fantasy world. But unicorns are really just one evolutionary horn away from a horse. The...

January 4, 2025 | SUBSCRIBE Good morning. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. Mine was full of family time, frosted sugar cookies, and can-you-take-this-bump-off-before-my-deductible-resets surgeries. We figured out how to go to the moon, but we clearly haven't won the battle against arbitrary deadlines. ** This newsletter features occasional affiliate links, meaning I will earn a small commission (at no cost to you) if you purchase a linked product. These small amounts will always...

December 14, 2024 | SUBSCRIBE Good morning. Unfortunately, the week before last brought two notable events in the healthcare world. One, the chilling murder of a health insurance executive. Shortly thereafter, Blue Cross/Blue Shield announced they would only pay for a portion of some patients' time under anesthesia. Both are appalling, though in very different ways. A colleague of mine wrote a really thoughtful breakdown of how these two events fit in the larger picture of our failing...

December 7, 2024 | SUBSCRIBE Good morning. This week I learned that 'the smell after rain' is called petrichor. It's actually made by bacteria that hang out in porous soil and release the compound when wet. We also can detect this smell better than sharks can smell blood in the water. So that's pretty awesome. ♻️ ICYMI (Recent Articles) ♻️ • How to See a Specialist in 2025 • • Should You Eliminate These 5 Things In The Gym? • • ‘If It Dries It Dies’: A Surgeon's Guide to Wound Care • ☝️ First...

November 30, 2024 | SUBSCRIBE Good morning. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I got a lot of great feedback from my Thanksgiving turkey carving article last week, with one very notable exception. I'm pretty sure my mom unsubscribed after my 'dry, tasteless' turkey comment. Which unfortunately brings my subscriber count down to roughly two. 😉 I'll see if I can win her back, but it's not looking good. ♻️ ICYMI (Recent Articles) ♻️ • Should You Eliminate These 5 Things In The Gym? • •...

November 23, 2024 Sign Up Good morning. Thanksgiving week has arrived. That means just six more days until you can take off your headphones and openly listen to that Christmas music you've been sneaking since Halloween. To my American readers, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! To my international readers, I'm sorry that I will never be able to explain to you why we have an entire holiday centered around a dry, tasteless meat that we generally refuse to eat the remainder of the year....

November 16, 2024 Sign Up Good morning. Thank you to all who spent an extra minute responding to my poll from last week. The official tally is in. Two-thirds of you would like a deeper dive into carpal tunnel, and the other third wants arthritis. Sounds like I ought to do both! It'll take me a bit of time to put together (still gotta work that darn day job), but stay tuned. And thank you again! ♻️ ICYMI (Recent Articles) ♻️ • Treat Any Pain Like A Doctor, Prescription-Free • • How Diabetes...

November 9, 2024 Sign Up Good morning. We currently have 11 inches of snow on the ground here in Colorado. How's that for early November? I literally mowed my lawn Tuesday and shoveled the driveway Wednesday. Quite the turnaround! It's officially warm mug and sweater season. ♻️ ICYMI (Recent Articles) ♻️ • Hand and Wrist Pain During Pregnancy: Causes and Relief Strategies • • Arthritis: What Does It Actually Mean? • • Your Guide: Trigger Fingers and Trigger Thumbs • ☝️ First Hand Think you...