CALM THE #%&*! DOWN
Seems the most common way for people to almost die is Acute Pulmonary Edema (APE). This, as I’ve blogged a lot about already, is when […]
View ArticleNOTES ON ENABLING & A COMPLICATED EXTRACTION
There’s a scene in the Buddhacarita where the young Buddha-to-be is sneaking out of his palace one early morning after another night of debauchery. They […]
View ArticleWHO HEALS THE HEALERS? Notes On Trauma & Child Sex Abuse
* * * * Trigger Alert: This post deals with physical and sexual abuse of children. It’s mostly non-specific and doesn’t go into graphic details, […]
View ArticleON BALANCE & COMPASSION
We were held up in the ER for a while the other day, crossed the sacred 40 minute threshold that sends little alarms up and […]
View ArticleA HUGE DUDE LOSES HIS CHIN AND HIS SHIT
Apparently, this cat was talking on his cell phone and then, for no clear reason, ate pavement. According to the witness, he just dropped. When […]
View ArticleMEGACODE
Spoiler Alert: The patient in this post does not make it. I want to get that out of the way because there’s some ups and […]
View ArticleDead Guy In An Elevator
maybe I should start having more chipper names for these posts… Maybe that’d be deceitful though. I dont want people coming here thinking it’s gonna […]
View ArticleThis Week In Other People’s Disasters
There’s an ebb and a flow.months and months will pass and you’ll only bring in chronic neck pain, chest colds, the occasional migraine and the […]
View ArticleAFTER
A lot of my posts end with some variation of this: “And then we zipped off into the night…” Right. That’s because that tends to […]
View ArticleThe Not So Sweet Inbetween
She’s a frail middle aged woman in a motorized wheelchair and she called because her teenage sons are stressing her out. When we get there, […]
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