At the hospital, I sent one of my colleagues a text page: “Do u know the name of that fancy Italian restaurant downtown?” One of my partners called me back, “Oh yeah, that’s [fancy Italian restaurant].” “Thanks. Amy and I are going out tonight, it’s our anniversary.” A couple years ago, I completely forgot about [...]

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I’ve always despised the concept of “family” growing up. To me, families were inherently dysfunctional groups of loud, fat, old, annoying, and/or pushy people, with their self-indulgent in-jokes and get-togethers. Families were for the weak and the co-dependent. That’s not to say they weren’t intriguing sometimes. For example, I liked the movie The Family Stone [...]

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The text message on my pager read: “New pt – Renfield – foreign obj ingestn” Mr. Renfield was a 30-ish psych patient from the forensic facility, a.k.a. The Crazy House. I have no idea what forensics (the use of science to establish facts in a court of law) has to do with psychiatric patients but [...]

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