Four weeks ago, as I sat in the Anchorage airport waiting to board the first of three planes that would hurtle me through the sky towards...

When I first heard someone mention the “4 F’s,” I immediately thought of the swear word...

The phone call couldn’t have come at a worse time.  It was the day before we left for our move to Alaska and the movers were shuffling...

I’m wondering if the only physicians that think about how many stairs are in a patient's home are rehabilitation physicians.  While other...

I’ve been going through my home, room by room, organizing for my upcoming move to Anchorage, Alaska for a new inpatient rehabilitation...

By last call I don’t mean the last call for alcohol before a bar closes; those nights are long behind me fortunately, way back to my...

We all gathered around the nursing station in preparation for the last celebration of a patient discharging from the inpatient...

The universe or God or fate or just random unluckiness is teaching me about acceptance and control this week.  I was sitting at a gate in...

I was fully immersed in a fantastic memoir, Angela’s Ashes, sitting in an aisle seat on my flight back from Wisconsin to Reno last...

When I tell people I’m working as a locum tenens, most look at me with confusion, like I am speaking a foreign language.  Which I am, as...

“Curiosity is the genesis of empathy,” were the astute words in my weekly email from writer Jeannine Ouellette. I'm taking a course from...

I am part of a writer’s group and together we are doing a 12-week course on how to write a lyrical essay. The first week’s assignment is...

Last year I started attending monthly lectures put on by the Nevada Physician Wellness Coalition (NPWC), an organization in line with my...

DETECTED. SARS-CoV-2. There were the words on the lab results page I had seen so many times at the hospital where I worked. I never...

I recently picked up a dusty book from the overflowing self-help shelf on my bookcase: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown. I’d had...

Quite frequently I will come across the word “non-compliant” in the medical record of a patient, one that I am going to admit to the...

One of my favorite words in stroke recovery is anosognosia (a-no-sag-no-zhea). This is the bizarre symptom a patient often has after an...

It took me many drives to work to realize what bothered me about this billboard. At first, I thought it was because I could not for the...

Yesterday I was invited to give a talk to a group of about fifty freshmen undergraduates at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). These...

I was not aware during my medical training how fearful patients and medical professionals are about the one thing that we all will...