I am more weary than I can say of this economic crisis that we hear constantly about. Every time I turn my beloved NPR on in the car on my way to work it seems the majority of the morning report is consumed with the most recent batch of bad news. I'm not insensitive to the misery implied by these dispatches. I know that every new story about the ( Read more... )

I feel like a worthless excuse for a person. If anyone wants to help alleviate my guilt, contact me directly for the schedule of spankings and penance. (It doesn't work crazy good to spank yourself.) For the first time in my adult life, I DIDN'T VOTE!! I was hoping to be one of those geezers who would proudly tell the young folks that I never ( Read more... )

The above from: Sarah Ann Braner, daughter of pediatrician, hysterical lecturer and international aide worker, Dana Braner MD. He was a presenter at this awesome NorCal Trauma Conference that I attended yesterday. The conference totally rocked. I won't bore my extremely small audience with all of the cool new things I now know. (Some of the new ( Read more... )

as prolonging a death." This heard from a fellow medic at the hospital. Earlier she had gotten pulses and blood pressure back in person in cardiac arrest. I congratulated her and she pointed out that, in all likelihood, she was just postponing her patient's death. This is true since most people who die stay that way. When you get pulses and blood ( Read more... )

If I wanted to, it would not be hard to find a few good reasons to dislike humanity as a whole. Working in EMS, one sees people that are just so hard to empathize with. I want to like some of these folks, I do. I want them to get their act together. I want people to rally, I really do. "Pull it together! You go, Girl/Guy!" And instead, I just get ( Read more... )