The Case for Online Civility and Humility. My colu...
Posted by Edwin | Oct 14, 2018 | Featured, Greenville News Column, Issues, humor, hobbies and all the rest | 1 |
Evangelical Bashing in the Trump Era
Posted by Edwin | Jun 13, 2018 | Faith, hope and love, Featured, Issues, humor, hobbies and all the rest | 1 |
Zero to Ten on The Work Excuse Scale. What’s...
Posted by Edwin | May 27, 2018 | Emergistan and Medicine, Featured | 0 |
Reflections on my Family Overseas
Posted by Edwin | Apr 8, 2018 | Featured, Wife, kids, pets and home | 1 |
Selecting Medical Students by Ideology
Posted by Edwin | Apr 7, 2018 | Emergistan and Medicine, Featured, Issues, humor, hobbies and all the rest | 0 |
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LatestThe People the Kids Bring Home. We love you all!
Jan and I have four children; three sons and one daughter (Sam, Seth, Elijah and Elysa). In the old photo above the role of Sam is played by dear friend Islay. We raised the kids in a log house on a hilltop...
Faith, hope and love
LatestDear Church People; It’s Not Always a Compliment
by Edwin | Aug 27, 2023 | Faith, hope and love, substack | 0 |
One of the things I’ve learned over the years is that when folks are called ‘church people,’ it isn’t necessarily a compliment. I grew up as a preacher’s kid (and actually a pretty tame one at that), so I thought it was nice to...
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An Ectopic Pregnancy is a Real Pregnancy; but…
by Edwin | Sep 21, 2022 | Baptist Courier, Emergistan and Medicine, Faith, hope and love | 1 |
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“We Want Everything Done for Mama!”
by Edwin | Apr 7, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, faith and medicine, Faith, hope and love, substack | 1 |
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! St. Patrick’s Breastplate…
by Edwin | Mar 17, 2022 | Faith, hope and love | 2 |
Wife, kids, pets and home
LatestForty Years Now, Where’d They Go? Reunion Reflections.
I just went to my 40th high school reunion. I graduated from Barboursville High School in Barboursville, WV. It is a school which no longer exists. I would have loved to walk down the halls again. It was an old, elegant...
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Christmas brings hope and joy amidst life’s pain
by Edwin | Dec 20, 2021 | Faith, hope and love, Wife, kids, pets and home | 2 |
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Issues, humor, hobbies and all the rest
LatestWhy not a Meth Sommelier?
by Edwin | Apr 25, 2023 | Emergistan and Medicine, Issues, humor, hobbies and all the rest, substack | 0 |
I rarely drink wine. My family didn’t drink it, being mostly tetotallers. My father was a pastor and had no interest in alcohol. My mother once saw a photo of my drinking Cold Duck with a date, riding on a...
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Something is Brewing…
by Edwin | Mar 14, 2022 | Issues, humor, hobbies and all the rest, substack, Uncategorized | 0 |
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Shattering Healthcare in Ukraine
by Edwin | Feb 26, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, Issues, humor, hobbies and all the rest | 0 |
Danger in the ER
Many years ago I had a patient in the emergency department who was young, accompanied by young friends and very demanding. I recall being terse with him. I was young and proud of myself for ‘taking a stand.’ (I’m not sure terse...
Read MoreThe Racoon King. Reflections on Dying Well…
Living and working in rural, southern Appalachia, I have certainly seen a lot of deaths. Some are dramatic. Summer is the time for many of these, as the rural love of water, motorized vehicles and...
Read MoreThere are Things in the Night; Well Known to the ER
by Edwin | Jul 20, 2023 | Emergistan and Medicine, substack | 0 |
https://edwinleap.substack.com/p/there-are-things-in-the-night When I was a boy, I often heard that old saying that parents told their kids to ease their fears of the night. “Now remember, there’s nothing in the night that isn’t...
Read MoreMedicine, This Hard and Beautiful Gift
Welcome new residents! Some food for thought. https://edwinleap.substack.com/p/this-hard-and-beautiful-gift
Read MoreSnakebites and Helicopters and Costs…
This is an excellent discussion on the value of expensive healthcare by writer, Robert Raboyes, on Substack. Dr. Graboyes was kind enough to include some of my comments and mention my own Substack, Life and Limb. ...
Read MoreA Different Kind of Orphan
The Aged in Medicine are Orphans as Well My job is increasingly that of geriatrician. Emergency departments, if we believe the stories in the media, are places where one finds fascinating poisonings, multiple...
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