I met Ken Smith, in 2009, when I came to St. Louis Children’s Hospital to pursue training in pediatric emergency medicine. By that time he had already been working there as a nurse for 13 years, before the 13 years we worked together. Despite the amount of time I spent working with him, I was […]
Merry Christmas, Rogue Readers! This is my first true blog post since July 2019 — I have only posted on the blog four times in 2020. Once was to link to my one and only self-produced podcast, one was an anonymous guest post, and the other two were links to my YouTube channel with two […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered our lives in numerous ways. One of the most visually disturbing ways is our inability to go to the barber/stylist and be properly groomed. Thus I conceived the idea of a video series called Haircuts from Healthcare Heroes. I have asked co-workers to volunteer to cut my hair on camera. […]
This essay was shared with me by its author with a request for it to be published anonymously. I have no professional affiliation with this individual. It has not been edited. Across the country, physicians and healthcare workers are being dubbed “heroes” and thrust into the limelight in unprecedented ways while simultaneously being stabbed in […]
While I’ve yet to resume a regular blogging pace this calendar year, rest assured the blog is not dead. Plenty of ideas are percolating, and I grow ever close to actualizing them. Some (perhaps many) of you reading this today discovered this website because you read The White Coat Investor. The White Coat Investor, run […]
My wife and I recently had a weekend without our children. In addition to dining at nice restaurants and waking up when our biological clock told us to do so, we did something twice in one day for the first time in a decade: we saw TWO movies. My wife wanted to see “On The […]