Giving more than me
Some time ago, I had a patient who struggled with depression and anorexia— needing checkups, needing referrals, and needing medicines. With every …
County by Dr. David Ansell
County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital is a book written by Dr. David Ansell that I recently read. It’s …
Humility hurts
Humility hurts like a heart attack
Sculptor, Sculpture, and Sacrifice (Ray Charles, T. S. Eliot, and art)
On one of my days off, I was able to bike a Divvy to see the Charles Ray’s sculpture exhibit at the …
The night is long like a syringe—
The night is long like a syringe— drip by drip time is drawn out slowly—
Exposed like in an open ward
Exposed like in an open ward the washing machines lie bare in columns
That bombastic buck
That bombastic buck of a gun came in cussing a muck full of sons—
Like an east wind
Like an east wind, I fly down the stairs My gym shoes— half on— land on cold, wet pavement
so much depends
so much depends upon a med student’s palms gloved in blue rubber pressing a black sternum the red wheelbarrow – william carlos …