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Out of the Cradle
The gifts from one’s parents include passions and observations that communicate—and finally become—character and identity. This was previously posted on CradleGifts. Out of the cradle endlessly...
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Eating Sushi at Stoplights
Caring for his mother through treatment for a brain tumor, David Olimpio finds odd comforts in a city he used to call home. This story originally appeared in CRATE Literary Magazine, Volume 7. I’ve...
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Drinking Wine with Noah
“I piled up his clothes, vacuumed his floor, and got rid of the flotsam and jetsam of an unclicked mind.” Robert Barsanti takes his father to the hospital. In my father’s refrigerator, I found: a box...
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The Dying Game
Can a merciless marketplace be entrusted with caring for people? Some things should not be left to the open market to decide, like healthcare for all. The market is an indifferent player in the realm...
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Piano Prodigy Plays for Hospital Patients
Noah Waddell is only 12 years old, but he’s already great at two things: playing piano and making people smile. Every week, 12-year-old Noah Waddell visits the Fort Myers’ HealthPark Medical Center....
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Asymptomatic
Navigating adolescence is hard enough without family problems. This weekend, Patrick Hueller reminds us of what being a teenage boy is like, but also shows us one unique boy in a unique fight to...
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Have We Lost the Art of Medicine?
An experienced caregiver shares three tips for injecting humanity into an often cold & arbitrary heath-care system — As a well-traveled, well-educated couple who spent most of their lives in New...
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Ordeal by Military Healthcare
After mysteriously falling ill while on a tour of duty in Korea, Brad Christy was put through the ringer of medical tests. The military healthcare system couldn’t find anything wrong with him, but...
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Nick Geddes’ Long Road to Recovery
In April of 2011 while racing the Sea Otter Classic in California, I had an unexpected crash during the Dual Slalom finals that ended up changing my life. _____ Following a minor concussion I was...
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Raising the Red Flag: The Global Plea for Help After Ebola
Brittni Brown examines the rise of new concerns on the heels of the decreasing Ebola epidemic in Western Africa. ––– The steady decrease in the number of new Ebola cases in Western Africa is certainly...
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Let’s Bring Heaven Down Here
How one man found healing in the midst of chronic suffering. — When a person is faced with tumultuous challenges in their life, a first response might be to run, hide, escape, or simply give up. It is...
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A Short Guide to Firing Your Special-Needs Health Care Provider
Embed from Getty Images In Part 10 of the series, “Every Family Has a Story,” Darla Johnson helps you think through the options if you need to change your special-needs child’s health care provider. —...
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Dad Investigates Just How Much Giving Birth In A Hospital Really Costs, And...
If you’ve ever Googled tirelessly to find an answer to this one too, then you’ll feel his pain. ___ By Clint Edwards Johnny Harris, a newbie dad and International Video reporter for VOX, recently made...
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The Hospital
For Steve Colori, hospitals are an all-too familiar place. — Editor’s Note: The following article is based on true events experienced by friends of the author. “The hospital is more like a campus and...
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Aviate, Navigate, Communicate — Three Words that Could Save Your Life
Embed from Getty Images “Could I have some water? Gary bent his head closer. Apparently, my husband couldn’t hear me. I couldn’t remember ever being so thirsty, and I felt too weak to talk. We were...
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Overcrowded And Underfunded: 18th-Century Hospitals And The NHS Crisis
Originally published 10/6/2014. The problem of overcrowded hospitals in Britain is now an annually recurring one. Every year, especially in winter, operations are canceled, treatments postponed and...
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Death, Hospitals and Life
Embed from Getty Images — I don’t want a clean, orderly life. Nor do I wish, metaphorically and literally speaking, to preserve this one beyond its natural length. Imagine the hall of an intensive...
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Fathers Are Needed in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
— By Duncan Fisher It is important for fathers to have physical contact with their babies in a neonatal intensive care unit. Six different research articles published in 2016 have looked at fathers in...
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When Death Came Knocking, It Was a Fight to the End
Embed from Getty Images At the age of 42, my father died of a massive coronary—hardening of the arteries aggravate by a thyroid condition. I was 14 years old. His ghost continually haunts me, but...
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A Caregiver’s Guide to Managing Hospital Trips
I’ve sung the praises of men who step into the role of caregiver. Now, I’d like to address how caring for infirm love ones becomes even more Herculean when it comes to hospital trips. The...
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