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I’m in Trouble Now and I Don’t Even Know What For!
Embed from Getty Images “That’s the end of the announcements, children. I’m sure you’ll all be happy to hear that it’s now time to go home! Quiet now! I said quiet! Before you go could I just ask...
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The Loss of my Father
Embed from Getty Images — Why did you die so young? Was it a haunting hidden death wish? You had your fill of life. Or, was it like the scythe to wheat, felled before your time was spent. In the...
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5 Days Before His 14-Gun Salute at Arlington National Cemetery
Lisa Hickey gives us a Memorial Day poem in remembrance of her grandfather. — He was decorated from each of the 20th century wars that I’d been forced to study as a middle schooler – World Wars One...
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St. Mary’s Memorial
Embed from Getty Images — He wakes to the sound of the television talking, the blinds drawn, a room that doesn’t smell like his. In the infomercial glow he can see he’s in a hospital gown and his...
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Hospital Refuses to Release Gay Man’s Body Until His Family Pays Entire...
— By Graham Gremore Adrian Nicholas King, a 39-year-old gay man from Stafford, was on a safari in Egypt when he suffered sudden kidney failure. He was taken to a hospital in Cairo where he slipped into...
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Little Boy Who Spent Nearly 200 Days in the Hospital for a Heart Transplant...
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Preemie Baby Humor
Embed from Getty Images Being born so young, and having less development than a 9-month-old baby, one wouldn’t expect a personality to show in a preemie. At the first moment she was born, Zoey cried...
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The Misadventures of a Paranoid Parent
— Every night I visit Zoey after work. I try to make it into the NICU before her care time and spend a few minutes reading to her, updating my Instagram account on her progress, and tucking her in...
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Quiet Room
Quiet Room They put me in a four walled room / But left me really out / My soul was tossed somewhere askew / My limbs were tossed here about –Marsha Linehan, founder of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy...
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Man, Alive
Portraits of the Patriarchy Father Time examines the progressive shift in modern fatherhood Part 9 He’s a father of two boys who are always making messes, and so what’s he to do, but turn to the latest...
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Harm’s Way
Why Does it Have To Be This Way? GMP Columnist Taylor García Looks Back in Time To Make Sense of Today Looking at Diana’s Santa Fe High School senior picture, you’d never know she survived a terrible...
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Thank God It’s Autism
Bill Girouard, on his son Teddy, and the time his mind went to all the dark places he was working so hard to fight against: tumor, cancer, six months to live, eight months, eight years … —- I’ve...
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From Car Crash to Cancer Surgery to Lawsuit
46-year-old Joseph Wheeler was in a car crash back in June 2010. He was flown to Prince George’s Hospital complaining of The doctors told him he might have suffered a concussion, so they wanted to...
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How Mental Health Impacts ER Care
As someone who suffers with several mental health issues including Asperger’s Syndrome, severe depression and social anxiety, I can say that I never once considered going to the emergency room instead...
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Can I See Your Insurance Card and I.D., Please?
Recently, according to a report in the Columbus Dispatch, the Ohio Historical Society (working at the request of a Canadian researcher who is compiling a global database of mummy x-rays and scans) sent...
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The Day I Fell From Grace
Ok, ok, yes, that was a total linkbait headline. I didn’t fall from grace. I’m not Lucifer. I fell off my roof on and I wanted to blog about it so you don’t also fall off your roof. Or something. Our...
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Anxiety is Chest Pain
— Anxiety is chest pain It’s a pummeling It’s a rapid-fire blast A bombardment that leads to a flutter The pitter-patter of heartbeats They come from within leaving the mind searching for answers for...
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How do you reconcile your spiritual faith with some of the messages you received about sin? In last night’s episode of New Amsterdam; a cutting edge (no pun intended) hospital show, there was a couple...
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Enter, Father
The Magical Moment Checking in at the triage ward of the Women and Children’s hospital is a moment of reckoning for a man. It means you’ve arrived with the mother of your child to bring said child into...
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Why Some People Don’t Trust Doctors
— By Armen Henderson On a recent night on duty at my hospital, I was called to the room of a 60-year-old patient from Puerto Rico. He had a treatable cancer that had now turned end-stage and...
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