Friday, October 3, 2008

How Many Buttons Can They Push...? (And, a meme to get my mind off them)

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Let's see if the on-call gods can push every possible button until I die of exasperation. Button #1 : Beeper goes off as I'm driving...
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Thursday, October 2, 2008

Morale Issues

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What happens when our energies flag? We've all had those days - those moments when, despite having chosen our work out of genuine dedica...
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Monday, September 29, 2008

One of the Ones That Stay With You

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"You're thinking of putting an epidural in a quadriplegic? Whatever for? It's not like he'll feel any pain." I looked ...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

The Joy of Browsing: an anesthesioboist's quiet Saturday

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Mm, browsing. It's one of my favorite things to do. I'll admit it: it's even better than wrapping Christmas presents. My "p...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

Anargyroi (a mini-excursion in medical history/legend)

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Happy Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian. Factual details about their lives are largely lost to us, but according to legend Cosmas and Damian...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Not My Best Moment II: The O.R. as a Cultural Anthropology Lab

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I have friends who are nurses. I have friends who are surgeons . I have friends on the housekeeping team . I have friends who are physicians...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

Mark 4:39

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Today is my daughter's birthday. She is eleven. If she had been a rich Tudor girl, as in the impossible-to-put-down books I am reading n...
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