Tag Archives: Healthcare

Good Grief

Posted on December 16, 2020 by deconstructingdoctor

Grief is a funny thing. Once you think you’ve mastered it, tucked it in a front shirt pocket over the heart where it can come along for the ride, but not get in the way, you end up leaning over … Continue reading →

Posted in My Stories | Tagged breath, Grief, Healthcare, loss, Mom, mother, pandemic | 17 Comments

Schrodinger’s COVID

Posted on July 6, 2020 by deconstructingdoctor

Tomorrow is the 4 year anniversary of my mother’s passing and today I sit here awaiting the results of my COVID 19 test. I’m not sure that the two things have anything in common, probably just mere coincidence. It is … Continue reading →

Posted in Medical Musings, My Stories | Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, Doctor, Healthcare, infected, negative, positive, results, Shrodingers cat, sick, waiting | 14 Comments

The Essential Worker

Posted on April 23, 2020 by deconstructingdoctor

I was talking to a patient the other day while we passed in the hallway. I had a mask on, she didn’t. She was in the office that morning to get her routine fasting labs. I asked her if she … Continue reading →

Posted in Medical Musings, Uncategorized | Tagged burger, COVID-19, deconstructing doctor, Doctor, essential worker, Healthcare, needed, nonessential worker, PPE, protestors, quarantine, testing | 20 Comments

Trump unfiltered is a health risk that is tough to avoid

Posted on October 1, 2017 by deconstructingdoctor

Last night I dreamt that I smoked one cigarette after another. I was ravenous. Light it up, suck it down, and do it again. This went on and on. It made me happy, enveloped in a cloud of smoke with … Continue reading →

Posted in Shinbone Star | Tagged cigarette, Doctor, Healthcare, patients, smoking, Trump, yoga | Comments Off

Antiquated

Posted on July 16, 2017 by deconstructingdoctor

Today was a good day. There were only a few things on the agenda that needed to get done. The first was to get the car inspected, but unfortunately, my place was closed due to a funeral, such is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Healthcare Today, Medical Musings, My Stories | Tagged antique, bankrupt, blog, blogger, blogging, bottom line, business, customer, Doctor, employee, Healthcare, pharmacy, Publix, scales, weight, where shopping is a pleasure, writer, writing | 15 Comments

The American Health Care Act: A Doctor’s Perspective

Posted on May 7, 2017 by deconstructingdoctor

Check out my friends at The Shinbone Star. This is one I wrote in response to the recent American Health Care Act (Trump-doesn’t- Care) that attempts to undue the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). I once took an oath. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Medical Musings, Shinbone Star | Tagged American Health Care Act, blog, blogger, blogging, Doctor, Healthcare, Hippocratic Oath, illness, insurance, Obamacare, preexisting conditions, Shinbone Star, Trumpcare | 9 Comments

Stay Woke America

Posted on April 30, 2017 by deconstructingdoctor

There are times in life when you just get so worn down, so tired, so disappointed, so disgruntled that you think you can’t keep going. You just want to stop, get off the hamster wheel and shut out the world. … Continue reading →

Posted in My Stories, Shinbone Star | Tagged America, Black Lives Matter, blog, blogger, blogging, Doctor, Education, Environment, Healthcare, Immigration, LGBT, political, politics, resist, resistance, rest, Shinbone Star, Stay woke | 1 Comment

When you don’t see 50 patients a day

Posted on March 26, 2017 by deconstructingdoctor

This blogpost was inspired by One Woman’s Quest who wrote in response to my blog Profit or Prophet: Stick to your ideals! 25 people is more than enough, but 50? How is that supposed to be helpful? My doctor refuses to overwhelm herself … Continue reading →

Posted in Healthcare Today, Medical Musings | Tagged blog, blogger, blogging, burnout, Doctor, Doctor patient relationship, health, Healthcare, medical, Medicine | 19 Comments

Give Me Insurance or Give Me Death

Posted on March 25, 2017 by deconstructingdoctor

If you haven’t found the Shinbone Star yet, check it out here. I’ve reblogged a post I did about the Republicans failed attempt at repealing the ACA. The folks at the Shinbone Star were spurred on to return to journalism … Continue reading →

Posted in Healthcare Today, Medical Musings, Medical News | Tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, America, blog, blogger, blogging, Death, Democrats, Doctor, Doctors, Healthcare, healthcare cost, insurance, political, Republicans | 6 Comments

Resistance

Posted on February 24, 2017 by deconstructingdoctor

I have a list of diseases that I hate the most. I hate them because I have no way to fight them. I have no power against them. I push back and push back, but they don’t budge. They laugh … Continue reading →

Posted in Healthcare Today, My Stories | Tagged blog, blogger, blogging, Death, Doctor, Doctor patient relationship, Doctor story, Doctors and death, good work, Healthcare, medical, Patient, purpose, resist, resistance, sacrifice | 16 Comments