EMT’s usually attempt to resuscitate and will transport a critically injured child, even if there is little expectation of survivability, which was the situation for a four-month-old in the pediatric trauma room. He had been in a car with his mother and aunts. No one survived in the other vehicle; so the “lucky” ones were on gurneys…
After sitting through a climate change panel last week, my take-away was, “Watch out for the cobras.” Are you as confused as I was? The thought flitted through my head that maybe the speaker was referring to pythons; pet snakes that have been released in the wild in Florida; stealthy, rampant, and some big enough…
Over the weekend, I attended a Stand-Up for Women Vets. And what exactly is a Stand-up? While I don’t know where the phrase, Stand-up, originated; perhaps it indicates showing support, like when we stand for the national anthem. It’s clearly not the opposite of stand-down; a military term that means cease-fire or truce. This Stand-Up for…
I found myself looking in vain for a topic for today’s post. None of the ideas I had notes on or the drafts of partial posts resonated. I looked around for inspiration and saw Eliza rejecting my proposed topics too. At first I was upset. When I meet with Joan, even if it is just…
Women have been part of the United States Military Academy for 40 years. These days, urinals have been removed from the women’s latrines (bathrooms). Women cadets are allowed to have long hair. They wear skirts and earrings. There are locks on the barracks (dorm room) doors. When women entered West Point as cadets for the…
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