When the sound of a child crying is the sweetest music there is...
Perhaps those of you who work in medicine, or the helping professions can relate to this.When you work in an ER you get to see some strange things, some horrible things, and sometimes, some truly...
View ArticleThe toddler drank espresso...
Some days ago, our 22 month old son, Jack, grabbed my (fortunately cooled) cafe' mocha, which contained FOUR shots of espresso, off the table and sucked it down...For everyone who has called, written,...
View ArticleThe Ebola Screening
With the Ebola scare, all hospitals in the U.S., (and probably all the hospitals on the planet...) now require their Emergency Departments to screen their patients for possible exposure to Ebola...
View Article"Dinner with Jack: A Play in One Act"
Me: Ooo! Look! That's Yummy! Nom nom nom!Jack: Not look yummy. Look yucka.Me: Mommy cooked it just for you. It's good.Jack: No want dat. Want gummiesh.Me: You can't eat Gummies for dinner. You have to...
View ArticleSo, is this our January 30th, 1933?
I rolled out of bed this morning, November 8th, 2016, and checked the N.Y. Times website from my phone.Nope, not a bad dream at all. It’s all too real.The Amerikan publik has just elected a demagogue....
View ArticleThe Gates Of Grief
This is a story about us. All of us, really, but mostly, about those of us who carry the DNA from a very, very small group of people from about 90,000 years ago. Geneticists, archaeologists and...
View ArticleHell Is For Children
.Sometimes, I write as a form of therapy, I guess.I am an emergency physician. I am also the director of our emergency department, chair of medicine at our facility, and a clinical professor of...
View ArticleTrump at the Boy Scout Jamboree: A lesson in boorishness.
Although I am very political, I rarely post political commentary.Most of my writing is about medicine or humor...but this SO DEEPLY offended me, I felt compelled to write. Yesterday, the current...
View ArticleDark Times...
I was reading last night the list of 'banned words' just leaked to the press, as directed by 45's administration, from various government agencies in HHS, most alarmingly, from the CDC:“vulnerable,”...
View ArticleWhen the sound of a child crying is the sweetest music there is...
Perhaps those of you who work in medicine, or the helping professions can relate to this.When you work in an ER you get to see some strange things, some horrible things, and sometimes, some truly...
View ArticleThe toddler drank espresso...
Some days ago, our 22 month old son, Jack, grabbed my (fortunately cooled) cafe' mocha, which contained FOUR shots of espresso, off the table and sucked it down...For everyone who has called, written,...
View ArticleThe Ebola Screening
With the Ebola scare, all hospitals in the U.S., (and probably all the hospitals on the planet...) now require their Emergency Departments to screen their patients for possible exposure to Ebola...
View Article"Dinner with Jack: A Play in One Act"
Me: Ooo! Look! That's Yummy! Nom nom nom!Jack: Not look yummy. Look yucka.Me: Mommy cooked it just for you. It's good.Jack: No want dat. Want gummiesh.Me: You can't eat Gummies for dinner. You have to...
View ArticleSo, is this our January 30th, 1933?
I rolled out of bed this morning, November 8th, 2016, and checked the N.Y. Times website from my phone.Nope, not a bad dream at all. It’s all too real.The Amerikan publik has just elected a demagogue....
View ArticleThe Gates Of Grief
This is a story about us. All of us, really, but mostly, about those of us who carry the DNA from a very, very small group of people from about 90,000 years ago. Geneticists, archaeologists and...
View ArticleHell Is For Children
.Sometimes, I write as a form of therapy, I guess.I am an emergency physician. I am also the director of our emergency department, chair of medicine at our facility, and a clinical professor of...
View ArticleTrump at the Boy Scout Jamboree: A lesson in boorishness.
Although I am very political, I rarely post political commentary.Most of my writing is about medicine or humor...but this SO DEEPLY offended me, I felt compelled to write. Yesterday, the current...
View ArticleDark Times...
I was reading last night the list of 'banned words' just leaked to the press, as directed by 45's administration, from various government agencies in HHS, most alarmingly, from the CDC:“vulnerable,”...
View ArticleDispatch from Thermopylae: Update from an ER doc in a top ten COVID hot spot
I have been absent from these pages for a very large portion of the past year. Bear with me, because I am far overdue for a venting so this is probably going to be long.I used to post regularly here...
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Giving COVID-19 vaccinations is a spiritual experience
I have written before about the horrors of the pandemic, from my perspective as a physician and from our viewpoint in a typical emergency department in America: stories of death, sickness, suffering,...
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