Crozet Annals of Medicine: Healing Crystals
Monday, January 3, 2022, Charlottesville, VA—It is snowing in Charlottesville this morning, the first snowfall of the new year. It is a heavy, wet snow and the trees in my yard are bowing down to the...
View ArticleCrozet Annals of Medicine: Starving in the Midst of Plenty
Working in a pediatric ER in the winter can be a challenging ordeal. Viruses circulate widely amongst indoors-bound children, and it seems like every treatment space is packed with coughing, sneezing,...
View ArticleCrozet Annals of Medicine: It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere
A headline grabbed my eye the other day. It was a glorious early spring day and as if to highlight the emerging warmth and daffodils, the U.S. Senate announced it had just passed the “Sunshine...
View ArticleCrozet Annals of Medicine: Blueprints
The ER can be an overwhelming place. So many patients, so much suffering, so much need. I have been working in the ER for a long time and yet once again today I was overwhelmed by a patient’s...
View ArticleCrozet Annals of Medicine: Proud to Be an American (Physician)
I have been out of the hospital for a while. The new interns have arrived and so I quietly slipped out the back. I will leave it to the nurses and patients to sand off some of the rough corners of the...
View ArticleCrozet Annals of Medicine: Two Arrivals
This is what happened to me at work today. A 90-year-old guy was brought in to die. An ambulance had been summoned to his nursing home because he was confused. En route to us he took a turn for the...
View ArticleCrozet Annals of Medicine: A Halloween Scare
I hate room 610. Just walking by it triggers PTSD. I hate it when the nurses call me to room 610. Room 610 is the room in the ER where they bring the dying children. We have plenty of other rooms where...
View ArticleCrozet Annals of Medicine: The Love Drug
Happy New Year Crozet! This first week of the new year brings out the optimist in most of us. A new year, a new chance, new resolutions and new determination to do better this year. It is easy to be...
View ArticleCrozet Annals of Medicine: The Long Goodbye
Hello Crozet! It has been a year since my last column. I wrote this piece a year ago but never got around to sending it in. I would like to share it with you now. A physician’s career path is...
View ArticleCrozet Annals of Medicine: The Razor’s Edge
A long-time reader and mental health professional recently wrote to me asking for some discussion of mental health issues in the ED. It is a large part of our practice that I haven’t discussed in past...
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