So, I am not going to lie, I couldn’t wait for 2018 to be over. It had been a rough one — full of extreme highs and valleys so low, that I often thought I could not nor would not be able to climb my way back out. While last year made me a published best-selling...
When you work in an emergency department and arrive at work, you never know what you will be walking into. I have had days where I walk in the department, set my bag down, put on my white coat, wrap my stethoscope around my neck and no sooner do I hear the radio going...
On November 19, 2018, the country and the medical community were shocked by yet another mass shooting at Mercy Hospital Medical Center Chicago. Dr. Tamara O’Neal, Officer Samuel Jimenez, and pharmacist Dayna Less were the victims of a lone gunman. When an event like...
It’s my first day at a new facility and I’m prepped with food, snacks, and a closed lid container for my morning coffee to allow me to refill it in the afternoon with water. You never really know how stringent the policies will be for water containers at your new...
Something I’ve always loved— first as a befuddled medical student, now as a (even more dazed) new mom— is spying on people. Specifically: people who are doing things beautifully, yet make it look easy. So, Ben from immunology section, you with the 20-pack of Staedtler...
Yesterday afternoon a tragic shooting occurred inside a Chicago hospital. In the parking lot of Mercy Hospital, located on the south side of Chicago, a gunman shot his ex-fiance, emergency physician Dr. Tamara O’Neal, who witnesses say was wearing her blue...
