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The Golden Rule Revisited

A Christmas Card from the Leaps

The Piercing Nature of Christmas

My Two Favorite Christmas Poems

Death Goes on Permanent Holiday

Your Words Matter More Than Fame

Anemic Angels Aren't for Me

Emotional Support Animals in the ER

An Appalachian Nativity

An Assassination Thought Experiment

Physicians Shouldn't Applaud Murder

My Jesus I am Tired

Such Safe Christmas Gifts! Blech

The Hospital as Museum

Hippocrates or Midas? Which Oath Rules?

Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey writes for Auraist on prose style: 'All writers walk around in a huff thinking their work deserves more respect.'

Building With Words

Pill Pieta

Going to the ER? Brace Yourself.

See Your Opponents as Captives

What do you Mean it's a Cold?

Want to Know Why Professionals are Leaving Healthcare?

Bedtime Reading

Look, it's Hitler!

Slandering the Church is Disinformation

Drinking 200 Proof Pain

Facing the Other Side of Hospitalization

Donations for Hurricane Relief

Medical Disaster in Appalachia

Update on Our Chaos

Dear Patients and Families: Have Mercy on my ER Family

Inside the Elderly There is Wonder

The Unspoken Stressors of College

If Only Christians Would Pipe Down...

Ladies, Babies, Cats and Survival

Treating a New Species, Homo fragilis

When Doing Poorly is Doing Well

The Sweltering Beach Pilgrimage

The Poison Cups of Bacchus

The Pre Med Process is Hurtful

I'll Catch up Soon

Another Olympian Thought

Last Supper or Bacchanalia?

Put Away the Home Blood Pressure Cuff

The Dignity of the Social Admission

There's Still America

Nights and Weekends (and Holidays) in the ER

Mama We're Home...

The Great Healthcare Divide

Happy Father's Day to my Dad

Only the Ferocious Fully Understand

It's Probably Not a Spider Bite

Human Worth and Human Survival

I am a collector of quotes

The Misery of Toothache

Sweet Iced Tea Brings us Together

Summer and Snakebites

The Coming Red Tide in Healthcare

A Night Shift Prayer

Sports for the Sports Impaired

Great Horrendous Couch Potatoes

Caring for Sick Children

Corporate Healthcare Pirates

Book Bans and Doctor Bans

[COPY] Why not a Meth Sommelier?

"I would never have done that."

"I would never have done that."

Cynicism is Essential to Medical Practice

A Prayer Before Work in the ER

Never Disdain the Coal Miner

There's Lots of Humor in Medicine

The Privilege we Fail to Discuss

Preparing for the Worst in Healthcare

I Love You, I Live You

Thank You Dear Friends and Colleagues

A Couple of Links

Christian Nationalism?

The People The Kids Bring Home

Who are we to judge?

The Kindness of Strangers

Leap Day Magic

The Volunteer Grandma Corps

Young Men, Learn to Be Strong and Kind

Thank you all!

They Rarely ask for Pain Pills Now

The Other Border Crisis

Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day Align

How Many People do we Need in Our Lives?

The Suffering Prevention Act

Chest Pain All Day, Every Day

A Treasure of a Mother-in-law and Grandma

Ink Everywhere

Father as Night Watchman

Dear Unkind Physicians

40 Years Now, Where'd They go?

How's Your Job Going?

Lovely Winter, the Killer

Squirrel Science

The Value of Hospice

The ED Remains Colored by Despair

Logs in the bed of a Truck

Every Crime has Many Costs

Leaving the old gods

Physicians, nurses and all the rest are not 'replaceable widgets.'