As part of a bi-religious dual-race multi-cultural marriage, raising children while teaching them different parts of two different religions, perhaps it isn’t a surprise that my wife and I occasionally disagree. What may be a surprise is that we don’t spend much time disagreeing about religion or race or culture. We do on occasion, but really […]
The Graveyard Shift
This is really a precursor to a larger discussion on sleep deprivation and medicine that hopefully I someday finish. As I sit and write this, it’s Tuesday night. I worked overnight shifts this previous Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in our pediatric emergency department. My shift was from roughly 11pm-8am each night. I saw over 30 patients […]
Featured By Pho
The Physician Leader in Social Media A couple weeks ago I sent a PM message on twitter to Kevin Pho of KevinMD.com, a leading physician voice on the Interwebs and social media, asking if he would consider sharing one of my posts. To my surprise, he responded and said he would send it off for editing […]
Home Alone
Entering Rogue One Someone on Rockstar Finance Forums asked if I was going to refer to my eldest son as “Rogue One” in my blog. Oddly enough, I hadn’t thought of that, but I love the idea. I am a Star Wars fan, but I’m a Trekkie at heart, and I did not think of […]
To My Infatuated Readers
I recently said I would be posting once/week, generally on a Wednesday. In an effort to keep you on your toes, I did not post on Wednesday. I did make a post on Monday of this week — that’ll be it for the week. I am a couple weeks into this and am starting to get a sense of […]
A Tradition Unlike Any Other
Are You Bi-Religious? As a two-religion household (Bi-religious? Multi-religious? Inter-religious? Not sure of the proper term), we celebrate twice as many religious holidays as most families. Eid-al-Fitr, Eid-al-Adha, Christmas, and Easter, are a part of our household vernacular. Despite growing up in a Muslim household, I heard a great deal about Christmas. It was impossible […]