Fever, heart, and atypical gratitude

Overlooked considerations during our Thanksgiving feast

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the states. Millions of us are cooking already. I’m seeing 20 patients today, and so I am spared a good deal of the preparation, though I’ll be exhausted nonetheless. I have three ideas to explore briefly before I see my first patient:

• Can Thanksgiving gluttony cause a fever?

• Can it trigger a heart attack?

• Is it OK to be…