BAD BILLY ON TLC!

The television event of the year – as you already know – is TLC’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, which premieres Sunday, May 27, at 10:00 p.m. The program features the Medical Examiner’s very own award-wanting columnist Bad Billy Laveau. Now that he has retired from the practice of medicine, he has the time to marry gypsies, among other …

It’s the premiere of The Hump Day Hiatus!

Every Wednesday right here: a splendid, refreshing, cleansing, upbuilding – and brief – excuse to take the break you’ve earned. This inaugural break is 11 minutes you’re going to really enjoy. And don’t say out of today’s 1,440 minutes you can’t afford to spend 11. Don’t say that! It’s against the rules. Just sit back and enjoy.

Drive right. PLEASE drive right.

Did you see the back page of the May 4 Medical Examiner? Were you surprised to read that, legally, all traffic is supposed to stay in the right hand lane, with just a few temporary exceptions? True, indeed. If you don’t believe us, read the excerpted laws, right there on page 16 of the aforementioned issue. It is a little …

GotDRUGS?

Specifically, got unwanted or expired drugs? If so, what’s the best way to dispose of them? First, here’s the worst way: flushing them down the toilet. Scientists say traces of all kinds of pharmaceuticals are found in our soil and water. Fish are getting high. (Just kidding, although they might be.) But there is a solution. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s …