Traveling | Dr. Valerie Brooke

How Italy and Celaena Sardothien Have Inspired Me

Valerie Brooke, MD

Nov 73 min read

How Italy and Celaena Sardothien Have Inspired Me

I had forgotten how old Europe is, like hundreds of years older than the US. One church we visited, the Duomo di Siena, took 300 years...

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Valerie Brooke, MD

Mar 278 min read

Scam 101

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...

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Valerie Brooke, MD

Feb 124 min read

The Human Impact of Hospital Closures

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

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Valerie Brooke, MD

Feb 15 min read

Things I Cannot Control

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...

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Valerie Brooke, MD

Jan 256 min read

Anyone medical on board?

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...

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Valerie Brooke, MD

Jan 157 min read

Wind Chill

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...

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Valerie Brooke, MD

Jan 34 min read

Locum What?

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...

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Valerie Brooke, MD

Dec 26, 20235 min read

The Whistling Santa

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

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Valerie Brooke, MD

Oct 30, 20233 min read

The Last Frontier

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...

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Valerie Brooke, MD

May 26, 20214 min read

Pandemic Traveling and Gym Workouts

This past weekend I traveled via plane for the first time in two years, since before COVID-19 transformed my way of life and leisure. I...

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