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...

I finally got on a plane yesterday to return from Wisconsin back to my current home in Reno, NV.  I spent the last 3 weeks doing a locum...

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...

Yesterday, on Christmas Day, I flew from my home in Reno, NV, to Minneapolis, MN, to start a new traveling physician job at a...

Many years before I studied to become a physician, giving thanks for the blessings in my life was the first part of my morning prayers.  ...

I grew up in the Green Mountain State (Vermont), lived for a short time as an adolescent in the Granite State (New Hampshire), and for my...

As the plane descended from the ash-colored clouds over Burlington, Vermont, I looked over the blunted orange and dark green leafed trees...

“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...

“When we get quiet enough, for long enough, we can hear the whispers, of what is right, of what is true, and most importantly, which way...

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

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...