half-Corean dad, doc, artist who is not afraid of going to Hell
>It’s been nice having warm weather again. Birds chirping. Breezes blowing flowery perfumes and pheromones. Reminding you of days of carefree joy. Like bike riding and pathologically hopeful crushes. Like your first date with the girl you’ll want to keep forever.
Still it seems kind of early for spring birds, risky even. I wondered if [...]
My mind keeps turning over as I turn over in bed once again, feeling one sinus empty as another sinus fills up, like secretions though the hourglass.
“Take something so I can go to sleep,” Amy says from her side of the bed.
“So you can go to sleep?”
Did I hear something? Those windows and doors in [...]
“What are you still doing here?” my colleague asked.
“I’m waiting for my last patient. She’s been in MRI all afternoon. I just need to say hi and touch her. With one finger,” I answered.
“Maybe you could … just go down there.”
(That’s what she said.)
“Yeah. I should.”
It’s rare to venture down into the black hole of [...]
Last weekend, we went on a little vacation in search of answers to the question. The question that drives us. You know the question.
Does Frankenmuth, Michigan, really have “the world’s best fried chicken?” They say they do.
We had heard that this place was a quaint little vacation spot in Michigan. A poor man’s Bellagio. Only [...]
“I don’t think I’m going to keep doing this,” an older colleague and partner for the evening shift says to me.
He’s the third person this year who has decided to opt out of the hospitalist thing here. There’s no need to ask why. It’s just a question of what’s next.
“You know, I used to enjoy [...]