I am by no means an expert in recovery, but is anyone truly? After yesterday’s blog, I felt a little bit more like an ass than I usually do. Then I thought about it and decided that I was essentially correct. I will not say that traditional recovery programs don’t have that respectable goal of …
Category: patient Stories
Oh honey, women just have pain…
An article in The Atlantic spends a horrible tale of how a doctor in an emergency room in Brooklyn failed to take a woman’s abdominal pain seriously. It is, of course, told from the patient’s husband’s point of view; however, a lot of what he says is very real in emergency medicine and other medicine …
War Stories…
Now, this isn't the guns and combat kind of war stories, I think we have enough of that with our schools today. I'm talking about the stories experiences that a new nurse has or an old nurse when working the floor. I know I have a few of them over the years I think for …
Back from my secret volcano lair…
Well, I took an unexpected few days off. Took off for my secret volcano lair for a weird bit of Zen. This is an odd time of year as a couple of significant anniversaries fall this time of year, and I am easily triggered, so I spend a great deal of time doing reflective things …