After decades in medicine, I wasn’t prepared for how quickly professional warmth could turn into distance. This is about loss, honesty, substance use, and what passive aggression in healthcare really feels like—from the other side of the exam table.
Category: Healthcare issues
FUBAR: How America Is Deliberately Destroying Its Own Healthcare
A frustrated, profanity-tinged rant about the deliberate dismantling of American healthcare, the rise of medical conspiracy theories, and the dangerous political decisions putting millions at risk.
Empathy, Pain, and a Midnight Scorched Attack
A 3:30 a.m. flare-up turns into an unexpected lesson in empathy, pain management, and the strange parallels between real-life recovery and surviving the Wasteland. Sometimes even nurses need a refresher in giving a damn.
Shoulder to Shoulder With Mortality
Getting older means realizing death is no longer something that happens to “other people.” After surgery and reflection, I find myself thinking about mortality, regret, and the strange comfort of finally being honest about what hurts — and what doesn’t.