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  • Dear Abby

    We're not allowed to give advice to patients at work, but today, it seems that's all I did. Example:Ring RingMe: Emergency Department.Patient: Can you tell me what effect drinking alchohol will have on the prescripti…

  • Second edit: I deleted my featured grownups piece not only because there were 300 hits in two days with just four comments, but because almost every hit came from an "unknown" source--featured grownups wasn't even liste…

  • Saved by Pottery Barn

    A stack of yuppie catalogs saved me from a trip to the Emergency Room. Saturday night, I was headed out the front door with an armload of beer bottles to put in the recycling bin when I tripped on the doormat and …

  • They say truth is stranger than fiction and working in the ER bears this out. I try not to write too much about the bizarre things that happen because a.) people would think I am making it up, b.)worries about violat…

  • Back before I worked in healthcare, Jon would sometimes come home from work, annoyed at the rude treatment he received at the hands of his patients—usually uneducated people at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladde…

  • Take Your Xanga Friends to Work Day! A typical workday afternoon: The charge nurse “blings” me on my cell phone (we all use those nextel walkie-talkie phones) to say there's a new patient in the Chest Pain Center. …

  • I always miss all the excitement. Jon worked today, and I had the day off. He told me that a woman gave birth to a baby in the ER waiting room. This is highly unusual. Pregnant patients are usually hustled straight o…

  • Science Fair projects were due today, which means I'm living on Easy Street until next December. It will be 2017 (the year Mr. McP will graduate from high school) before I am finally free of ever having to supervise …

  • I'm reading Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, and now I want to go to Lima. I went so far as to do google searches titled "Tourism, Lima" and "Buy Real Estate, Lima Peru." Houses are surprisingl…

  • Xanga to the rescue! Today, packages arrived from my mother-in-law. We arranged them under the tree, and went out to run some errands. When I got home, I saw torn wrapping paper, and empty fluted chocolate wrappers…