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The Ghost in My Phone
JANUARY 10, 2012 9:34AM
Topics: potassium, salt, caregiving, mamacita, family, nursing home, hospital, phone, ghosts
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- 1785 Views
- 27 Comments
A tale of two ERs
DECEMBER 11, 2011 12:04PM
Topics: single-payer, insurance, hospital, health
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- 1793 Views
- 20 Comments
From Dorm Room to Hospital Room
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 3:46PM
Topics: open call, freshman orientation, hospital, flu, college, chaz bono, mono, viet nam war
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- 1886 Views
- 20 Comments
Mom's Confession: The Secret Box
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 1:53PM
Topics: birth mother, mother, children, adoption, hospital, alcoholism, cancer, dying, death, family, my parents' secret lives, open call
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- 2140 Views
- 22 Comments
Why we don't like having all the choices.
JULY 20, 2011 12:41PM
Topics: why we don't like having all the choices, family, syndactylty, complex syndactyly, congenital disorders, canada heathcare, hospital, decisions, science, health
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- 796 Views
- 54 Comments
My First Death
APRIL 17, 2011 7:33PM
Topics: health, memories, chf, pulmonary edema, hospital, nursing, death
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- 3884 Views
- 10 Comments
“Lady, You're In The Psychiatric Unit.”
APRIL 6, 2011 12:01AM
Topics: open call, mortifying disclosures, psych ward, radio city music hall, joan jett, st. vincent's hospital, health, medical, hospital, divorced, nyc, lower east side, true story, real life, no fun zones
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- 1692 Views
- 6 Comments
Grey slipper socks; or, Teen trauma in the ER
MARCH 14, 2011 1:39PM
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- 1412 Views
- 40 Comments
The Hospital -- True Story for Halloween
OCTOBER 27, 2010 9:10PM
Topics: real scary stories, real scary story, open call, flowers, baby's breath, murderer, killer, soul, mom, family, health, pain, security, moon, exhaustion, patient, old woman, blood, nurse, scissors, assassin, the godfather part ii, the godfather, hernia, hospital, eclipse, halloween, scawey
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- 9510 Views
- 26 Comments
When Helping is an Ethical Quandary
AUGUST 31, 2010 4:56AM
Topics: interpreting, physicians, physician, medical team, healthcare, helping, ethics, nurses, health, facebook, providers, heathcare, hospital, medical school, doctors, drunks, iris monica vargas, open salon, medical interpreting
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- 2116 Views
- 47 Comments
I’m Never the Sick One
AUGUST 20, 2010 5:27PM
Topics: hospital, surgery, cholecystectomy, gall bladder, medical insurance, medicine, coyoteoldstyle, emergency medicine, george clooney wasn't there, health, open call
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- 4824 Views
- 48 Comments
Nurse Brown Starts a Class War
MARCH 30, 2010 5:41PM
Topics: health care reform, nursing, hospital
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- 1236 Views
- 16 Comments
An Injured Dog Takes Himself to the Hospital Emergency Room
MARCH 18, 2010 11:50AM
Topics: emergency room, hospital, intelligence, injury, dog
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- 1716 Views
- 45 Comments
Triage
MARCH 9, 2010 12:54PM
Topics: triage, emergency, assessment, medicine, first aid, hospital, priorities, life experience, health, primum non nocere
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- 2372 Views
- 48 Comments
The Appearance of the Blue Man into my Life.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 12:16PM
Topics: health, family, environment, love, heartbreak, death is not for the weak of heart, hospital, disbelief, denial, dying, wheelchair, appearances of blue, so cold
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- 894 Views
- 4 Comments
Reform opponents discovered decades old problem... last week
AUGUST 24, 2009 7:37AM
Topics: glenn beck, hospital, alaska native, first nations, native americans, indian health service, health care reform
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- 1507 Views
- 16 Comments
Avoidance vs. Engagement in Intensive Care
JULY 21, 2009 5:09PM
Topics: trauma, intensive care unit, hospital, nurse, nursing, medicine, health care, coping skills
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- 1424 Views
- 12 Comments
The Roommate
APRIL 21, 2009 3:59PM
Topics: depression, mental, hospital, psychiatric
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- 675 Views
- 5 Comments
Crippled and Crazy or Maintenance Time at the VA
MARCH 14, 2009 6:18PM
Topics: va, hospital, date, agent arm, doctors, cc, ptsd, mental, pain, veteran
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- 1903 Views
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My week in the hospital
MARCH 1, 2009 3:04PM
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