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moving the end tables 30 Jun 2013 | 07:00 am
i couldn't figure out why these people wouldn't just let this poor woman just die already. the oncology notes were an unfathomable tangle of chemotherapy drugs i'd never heard of and karyotypes i cou...
I should have been writing a 15 page paper this weekend... 10 Jun 2013 | 12:09 pm
I should have been composing a final paper for my graduate level research class over the weekend BUT YET AGAIN, my mind is scrambled, contemplating what my next move at work will be. I have been on th...
a journey with adderall, and the docs who enabled 13 May 2013 | 12:47 am
In reading "The Last All-Nighter" -- about a woman's experience with the stimulant med Adderall, the part that haunts me the most is the careless preying of physicians in prescribing the drug: My new...
"i prepared for a panic attack" 13 May 2013 | 12:13 am
Experience Adane Byron's compelling journey through anxiety, in his short piece "A day in the life" in the NYTimes. Then go check out the ongoing contributions to the New York Times series on Anxiety...
on death and dying in the era of mass urbanization 12 May 2013 | 08:42 am
"Sequestering our elderly keeps most of us from knowing what it’s like to grow old." A physician reflects on our sometimes unrealistic expectations and attitudes about death.
It's an hour before the end of my shift 1 May 2013 | 11:12 am
and I get this page. It's unit 3. I know this isn't your patient but Dr Whoever left early and we need somebody to pronounce the lady in 13A-- she just passed. I've been hiding in the doctors' loung...
doctors treat patients by the dim lights of cellphones 17 Apr 2013 | 12:04 pm
"Gaza Hospital chosen for solar power project" Power cuts can affect Gaza hospitals so badly that medical operations sometimes have to be carried out under the faint light provided by doctors’ mobile...
"Look for the helpers" 16 Apr 2013 | 11:09 am
"Look for the helpers. You'll always find people who are helping." -- Mister Rogers I'm imagining Mister Rogers dropping the mic and swaggering off the set in his sweater, knowing these words would ...
Boston, we are with you. Iraq, we are with you. 16 Apr 2013 | 10:45 am
Boston, we are with you. My heart aches. Our hearts ache. Thank you, first responders, the greater Boston community, and the world. "Cooperation after a Tragedy: When our Hearts Know Better than our ...
Code 29 Mar 2013 | 03:19 am
It's a rural hospital. Everybody knows everybody. Except this guy By the time I get to the bedside we are at least fifteen deep. Nursing students trail out the door. Someone is explaining to them wha...
