Notes of an Anesthesioboist

Wherein an adult student of oboe chronicles her adventures in music, medicine, and faith, and other stories... “Novelists, opera singers, even doctors, have in common the unique and marvelous experience of entering into the very skin of another human being. What can compare with it?” -Willa Cather

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Happy Halloween from Anesthesioboeland

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Ok, I'll admit it: this Halloween thing's not so bad... I tried to get into the spirit of things (so to speak) by making myself a H...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

On Certain Ghosts

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We've been sharing a lot of ghost stories in the O.R. these past few days. I don't know what it is about ghost stories, but people l...
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Saturday, October 27, 2007

How Can They Like This Better than Christmas?

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I hate Halloween. I hate the creepiness, the figures hanging in effigy, the other "decor" - unpleasant, dirty, repugnant stuff, li...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Righting Things

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( illustration by Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator; licensed under Creative Commons ) In the children's movie Madeline , whenever F...
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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Optics, Acoustics, and Matters of the Heart, Not Necessarily in that Order

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My son's questions have a way of keeping us on our toes. The other night at the dinner table my husband and I were reminiscing about col...
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Friday, October 19, 2007

René

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Today is the feast day of the patron saint of anesthetists: St. René Goupil. He was born in Saint-Martin-du-Bois, near Angers, in 1608, grew...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

I Did It!

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I played in a music group tonight! As an oboist! I can't believe it. I've dreamed for so long of making music in a group, of playing...
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I'm a wife & mom. I'm a doctor too. I listen to classical Christmas carols all year round (they make me happy). I also love to read, write, cook, eat, dance, play music, and ponder things. I do a lot of my pondering here.
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