I’m feeling empty inside tonight.
They were a happy couple in their 70s, traveling every summer as they had done since their grandchildren were first born. Finally feeling like they had finished raising their own children the couple enjoyed a carefree, low-budget retirement by driving their VW van to National Parks during the summertime.
After […]
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I rounded the nurses station to drop off a chart only to by confronted by a clown.
I did a double take…yes, it was a clown, sitting in a wheelchair. A Pink curly wig donned his head and billowing teal pants with red and pink polka dots spilled through the spokes of the wheels.
He sat […]
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The last time I voted republican was when I was 18. But the idea of simplified taxes is attractive. Portable and affordable health insurance? I’m in. Cleaner energy? Check. What’s to dislike so far?
This is not a trick post…talk me out of it, please…
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Rather than write my own version of the night, I’ll just post this group poem that was written the next day.
Once upon a midnight dreary
There I pondered, weak and weary
About a hound named Lola
Covered with bumps of curious lore.
When all at once I heard a knockin’
Lee-Ann cried, “Shazam! This dog is Talking,
About an oozing […]
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My laptop is crazy slow, so I began cleaning up the harddrive…uninstalled programs I no longer use, running CCleaner, etc.
Some of the files that were deleted had the directory string
“C:\Temp\Patcher\Patcher1048\PBSLocalizedStrings\PBSLocalization\es_ES\PBS.zdct 5.88KB”
There were hundreds of these…what the heck are they?
So I googled “patcher”, and got millions of hits.
Then I googled “patcher1048″ and got ZERO hits. That’s […]
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I was trying to quickly wrap up my patients for the afternoon, since I had someplace to be at 6pm (a bike race to be specific), when the nurse taking care of the woman in room F told me that her son had some questions for me.
I sighed. I always want patients and family to […]
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This poor old man with dementia was in a fist fight with another resident. So the staff tried to commit him to the psychiatric hospital. I got the same basic story from both the patient and the staff. Apparently, another resident went into his room, and the patient was afraid that he was being attacked, […]
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We created the best sterile field that we could and numbed up the laceration with as much lidocaine with epi as was safe to administer. We had run the hand under running water to disrupt the clot, and then irrigated with sterile saline.
The distal tendons popped into view easily by simply extending all of his […]
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They hadn’t eaten since before starting work that morning and by the time they arrived at the clinic, it was late in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day.
This is when I met him for the first time.
“Doc Shazam, we need you. We have a machete injury…” said the 3rd year resident.
While minor trauma […]
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I just returned from a 2 week trip to rural northern Honduras where muddy roads twist up steep mountain sides, and where farmers manage near vertical fields of corn and beans where mahogany trees once grew.
A fifteen year old farmer leaned over in the beating sun, swinging his machete in his right hand while gathering […]
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