We’ve turned childhood diseases into nostalgia and vaccines into controversy. As a healthcare provider, I’ve seen what these illnesses actually do—and it’s nothing worth celebrating.
Tag: healthcare
Scars of Service: Harm Reduction, Redemption, and the People Who Refuse Both
A former provider reflects on becoming the patient—where judgment replaced care, and how harm reduction could have changed everything.
Leaving Nursing Behind (But Taking the Stories With Me)
A reflective look back at the unglamorous, unseen work of nursing — and the quiet pride of walking away with dignity, humor, and a lifetime of stories.
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.