I’ve been a longtime blog reader / podcast listener of the Mad Fientist, one of the more extreme pursuers of Financial Independence I follow (the other I’ve read for years is Jacob Lund Fisker at Early Retirement Extreme, even though he stopped creating new posts many years ago – his posts are that unconventional and mind-blowing). I met the Mad …
Reversal Of Fortune
Although it’s been a minute since I left clinical practice, I still strongly identify with those who wear scrubs, work hours that are hard on the body, and engage the people and fluids that causes those in polite society to avert their gaze. The reason those people seek care in the emergency department is for variations on a theme: betrayals …
Anatomy Of A Loss
This past week marked two years since my father’s death in a hospice facility in my hometown. Mom and I marked the occasion by meeting at the cemetery to pay our respects. I’ve been replaying dad’s final hours in my mind intermittently for the past two years. He’d lost his oxygen supply when the tubing caught on a corner of …
Road Map
My wife and I attended a Halloween party this past week with a group of fellow nerds. The theme was birds, and the costumes ranged from predictable (I was one of two Big Birds from Sesame Street) to pun-filled (the hostess dressed in blue, wearing a necklace of strung together blue kitchen sponges – a “scrub jay”). It was wonderful. …