You don’t survive medical training without being hard on yourself. You can’t function as an internist without being obsessive-compulsive. Even though Bill and I are retired physicians, we’ve retained previously-useful values: a hyper-vigilant alertness of the world around us and the fear of mistakes. Even though our decisions nowadays are no longer life-and-death, we still agonize over […]
Do I have an Ambien habit? I am twenty years over the “short-term use” recommendation for these sleeping pills. I worry about running out before the refill date. I fantasize about having a stockpile against the day my doctor cuts me off. Ambien doesn’t even work well! I get sleepy, yes, but only for a […]
I can let my hair go gray! I haven’t seen my hair in its native state for two decades. I can catch up on my 23 episodes of This is Us and, coincidentally, my 23 episodes of Call the Midwife on my DVR. In what is the opposite of binge watching, I watch these shows […]
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