If you’re in healthcare, this is probably your worst winter ever. Between the COVIDs, scarce resources, shutdowns, homeschooling, bureaucracy, hoaxers, and checking the in-laws’ rashes online, you must feel cooked. You’re frustrated. Your patients die calling COVID a hoax. People refuse to wear masks. So many loved parents die alone. Bureaucrats don’t prioritize people’s lives.Continue reading “Looking after #1: The healthcare worker’s guide to surviving winter.”
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20 tips on surviving the COVID winter.
I hate 2020. It’s the worst year I can remember. Between the pandemic, the shutdown, the plunging economy, the overloaded medical system, the mask debate, and the looming elections, I can’t remember a worse one. And it’s not over yet. From doctors to politicians, all those who know what they’re talking about, and some whoContinue reading “20 tips on surviving the COVID winter.”
Jones Update
After a year away, we’re back in the North Country, and it’s bitter-sweet. I miss Thailand and my Chiang Mai friends. I miss the spices, the heat, and swimming before the pool opening time. I miss the orange-clad monks collecting alms as I returned from the market loaded with fruit, vegetables, and the meat-du-jour: anythingContinue reading “Jones Update”
Surviving the year of rage
Some say 2020 is the year of disasters. Others say it’s the year of change. To me, 2020 is the year of rage. In 2020, rage overtook the world, consuming us and hurling the leftovers against each other. The right is angry with the left. The social distancers are angry with the beach-goers. The maskContinue reading “Surviving the year of rage”
Patients vs. customers
Somewhere in Wuhan, somebody ate undercooked bat soup, and the world as we knew it was over. (Note to self: never have your bat below medium, and avoid bat tartare like the plague.) Kids stayed home. So did their parents. They started talking to each other, instead of watching their phones while rushing from soccerContinue reading “Patients vs. customers”