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Fuck You Egg Sandwich with a Tall glass of Haterade
Bridget's friend from home is visiting. I think she comes from a good place somewhere deep down, but I find her less and less bearable every time she comes around. She has a suboptimal social sense and as her host for the weekend I find her sort of disrespectful. She makes herself at home, which I guess I want my guests to feel comfortable, but ( Read more... ) -
Pooped
Today is day two of a three-day stint at Shock Trauma. I'm dragging today. I only got about 4 hours of sleep before starting day one, got maybe too much sleep last night...hopefully tonight I will split the difference. I love what I do and had a decent day, there's just this whole mind/body exhaustion that sets in after my third case of the day. So ( Read more... ) -
Bitcoin Bitty
I had three days off in the middle of this week, now it's day three and I'm bored. I left the book I am reading at my in-laws, and I am not motivated to take on a new book. I did go for a nice run, something like 7-8 miles along the foggy Baltimore waterfront this morning. The sun is out now and it's a balmy sixty-some degrees. I am at Koba Coffee ( Read more... ) -
Numb in the gum, son.
I just had dental work, 3 cavities filled on my left side. Going to the dentist is the worst, but I like my dentist here in Baltimore. The whole setup is nice. When I was a kid I had frequent orthodontic visits, and with it the distinct memory of my mouth being held wide open with some device with an insidious name and various instruments used for ( Read more... ) -
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“Rescuing a patient in crisis requires complex clinical skills and immediate response,” the society said in a news release. “Nurse anesthetists, while important members of the surgical health care team, are not clinical substitutes for a highly trained and experienced physician. … No two patients respond the same to anesthetizing agents, and what ( Read more... ) -
Digging deep on night shift
I'm working night shift at STC and I hopped on the ol' LJ because I was suddenly reminded of a patient that I thought I wrote about when I was working in the ICU. She was a little cranky old Greek lady and she died. But not after getting a little bit better and then lots and lots worse right in front of my eyes. Went from sitting in her chair, ( Read more... ) -
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I have been weaning myself off Facebook recently which has left a persistent hole in my internet surfing routine/compulsions. Now when I click on the tab without realizing, the constant requirement that I re-log in snaps me out of the FB trance and I turn elsewhere ( Read more... ) -
M&M
A few weeks ago I was asked to present a case I participated in back in February, at this year's departmental Anesthesia Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conference, held yesterday. If you haven't seen that episode of "Scrubs," basically the head of the department presents statistics about the year's badness; how many cases we did and the many strata ( Read more... ) -
Prodigal Update!
Yesterday I found myself thinking, "something something Live Journal" so I decided to go back and see if my account had been purged. It lives! I'm excited to go back and peruse my old writing and see how clever and unique I was. It's like a carefully edited time capsule ( Read more... ) -
i hate that i love this quote so much.
"Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only wand to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?" David Foster Wallace, Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky...A retort from ( Read more... )