This post was written to prior Don Imus’s unfortunate and racist comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. It seems ironic that he came up with such a good example of what I wrote the essay to talk about.
I am not quite sure when it happened, but sometime in the last ten years, [...]
The scariest part of my job is intubating people — medical terminology for putting a tube down someone’s throat so that a machine can breathe for them. This is something that happens regularly in Emergency Departments: people’s hearts or lungs fail them — or they are victims of gunshot or knife wounds or high-speed automobile [...]
For BRJ
There have been a couple of great snowstorms in Omaha lately: not traffic-stopping, car-covering mountains of snow, but soft, six-to-twelve-inch blankets that require warm boots and lots of snow shoveling. “It’s my favorite day of the year,” I said to my husband a few weeks ago after waking up to a fresh snowfall.
“You mean [...]