So, five days post-Comic Con and a few things from it are still bouncing around in my cranial space (for once not a boob joke). First off, the celebrities.  I walked right by six or seven of them barely realizing it.  They all tend to be in a hurry in the opposite direction you’re going.  [...]

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“I am never going to one of these things again.” – Amy, May 2010 at the Motor City Comic Con We booked the hotel for the San Diego Comic Con relatively late (as in two months ago) and hence had to pack two kids, Amy, myself, and cousin Kevin in a tiny one bed, single [...]

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(picture above not directly related to entry) July.  The most dangerous month of the year to be in the hospital, but also the month with the freshest faces. The interns with bright coats and loaded pockets rush from room to nurse to computer to attending, trying to stay afloat in the miasmal maelstrom. One of the new nurses pops [...]

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I’m sorry…? I just called to … tell you it wasn’t my fault?  To see how you were doing?  Express my condolences?  (What does that even mean?  Does anyone ever express just a single condolence?) No, I don’t know how things changed so quickly.  Or why we couldn’t stop it. No.  I don’t know what [...]

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One of the worst things about this job is coming in to discover that a patient that you least expected to run into problems, died overnight.  You backtrack through the chart notes reading what happened while you were off, seeing the whirlpool unfold, sucking in more physicians, tests, data, as the lab numbers and vital [...]

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