Well, annoyed, sad, frustrated, and unsurprised, all at once, really. So, crossposting a question from Facebook. I believe that a certain degree of wealth redistribution (lopping the long tails off the economic bell curve) is a Good Thing, and I believe that our current policies, at the state and national level, and seriously failing to do this. I ( Read more... )

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Yesterday, I had a (quite decent) latte at the Shire Cafe in Arlington, WA. The building housing the Shire Cafe is also home to ( Read more... )

Have not posted much on the Interwebs in general, as have been busy. Not crazy-on-call busy; I have actually not had to take in-house overnight call since early March, and won't have to do so again until late summer. The past 1.5 months have been totally call-free, assuming you don't count overnight ER shifts (which I don't). In short, the day job' ( Read more... )

The other thing that recent NH trip taught me was a reminder in contentedness. I meet a lot of people on these trips. Some are friends or prior mentors who are well ahead of me in the tangibles -- money, houses, vacations, etc. Some are college students getting in a whole lot more "exploration" than I ever did. Some are new acquaintances doing ( Read more... )

I think one of the things I missed most about travel was the chace to introspect. you spend a lot of time waiting in lines, killing short periods here and there, and generally in transition. Plus, you get jarred out of your familiar surroundings, which makes you reconsider patterns ( Read more... )

Spending a couple days in New Hampshire for combined business and pleasure. I gave a lecture on Thursday, then am spending Friday through Sunday AM hanging out around my prior College, seeing some old friends and former collaborators, and watching my old house initiate new members. I'm also figuring on getting in some much-needed time to study for ( Read more... )

"Overwhelming rage."

To our dismay, patient was not green, nor did his clothes appear to be substantially ripped. He did state that people didn't like him when he was angry.

You may, perhaps, think that psychiatry night call is not quite as difficult as, say, internal medicine night call. If you think that, I offer the following.

Nursing note, patient information thoroughly redacted:
Came to writer with a very small organism crawling on her finger said it was a crab and she took it from her perineal area. Said that ( Read more... )

"If your house is locked and a stranger answers the door, check to be sure you have the right house. Don't get angry with them or they might try to have you arrested again."

...on further review, the attending and I agreed that while very correct, these did not actually need to be made part of the patient's medical record.