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

Saturday, February 16, 2013

The Virtues of Appropriate Fear

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Anesthesiologists shouldn't "scare" easily but they should "scare" appropriately. That is, an anesthesiologist ne...

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

The Other Side of the Drape

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My son had been having episodes of belly pain right around his belly button for several weeks. I watched and waited. Between these bouts of ...

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Haunting Music

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Today in the hospital we were all surprised to hear strains from a harmonica playing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," "Silver Be...

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Sunday, October 16, 2011

What is Death

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I've only had to declare death a couple of times. Once in a three-year-old and once in an adult. In each case the heart had stopped beat...

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Sunday, September 11, 2011

9/11

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images by Reuters, Doug Kanter, Shannon Stapleton, and Joe Raedle

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Moving Beyond Mammy: Why I Strongly Disagree With Some Criticisms of The Help

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I read Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help two years ago, when it first became a literary sensation. I loved and was astounded by it; i...

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

To Bare Or Not To Bare

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Topless sunbathing is widely accepted in France, where we've spent a lovely vacation visiting my husband's family. Our recent day t...

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T.: 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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