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Suboptimal 26 Aug 2013 | 10:17 pm
Things are hard at work. It would be easy to say that this was because I'm working too much, and this has been true. But it's more correct to say that I had a particularly terrible night on call last...
Untitled 9 Aug 2013 | 07:20 am
A lot of what I'm thinking and writing these days is about grief, and prayer, and religion. Some of it is angry, which is ok by me, but is not really nice. Regardless, the subject matter is not reall...
Kaddish 29 Jul 2013 | 07:55 am
When I don't make it to kaddish, I feel bad. I don't feel bad because I forget that he was alive. I forget that he is dead. Why should this make me feel guilty? But it does. ------------------------...
Grief 12 Jul 2013 | 09:09 am
We lost my father about three weeks ago. I have some thoughts about grief that I'll probably share in a while. For right now, being sad and saying Kaddish* are taking any of the energy I have, and m...
6:20 pm Monday 6 Jun 2013 | 05:52 am
Impassable traffic Because highway south of us is flooded? (I never learn why) While already one hour late to hospital to my overnight call To make up missed call from last week (Partners are lovely a...
Radioloab followed me to work 7 May 2013 | 07:06 am
Not really, but you should go and listen to this. You should not, however, do so on an emotionally fraught trip to visit an ailing family member, because you will sob uncontrollably in seat 9C for mos...
Rough sailing 22 Apr 2013 | 12:00 am
I refer you to this article, which was written BEFORE Thursday night. It's sort of been the perfect storm for me lately. I have a family illness going on, I had a medical malpractice trial starting n...
Twee 7 Apr 2013 | 09:29 am
Did I ever tell you about the friend of mine who delivered a baby at my hospital, during the first few weeks of fellowship? I went to see her (and her beautiful new baby), and she (a professional, co...
Even Google Calendar is flummoxed by us 27 Feb 2013 | 08:28 am
In-house call schedule (= stay overnight on L&D, deliver babies) at Main Hospital In-house call schedule (= stay overnight on L&D, deliver babies) at Associate Hospital Correlated post-call days sch...
Working It 13 Feb 2013 | 07:45 am
It is amazing what I will do to avoid editing a journal submission. You know, I haven't done this very much - I just submitted my first original manuscript, and I have a review article (which apparen...
