This page is devoted to topics that do not touch on emergency medicine. I’ll try to cover a lot of ground here, from faith to family, favorite guns to favorite books and everything in between.
edwinleap.com
Edwin Leap/physician-writer discusses medicine, family, and culture
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Dear Edwin,
You NEVER cease to amaze me! Thanks for the wise words and sense of self-humor. We can all take a lesson in self-humiliation but remain in awe of the world around us and how it works (or sometimes doesn’t work). In any case, I love how you write and are able to include ourselves in the masses of mistakes that make us all human afterall.
Love ya much,
Shari
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Awesome! I’ve been hunting for this for hours. I wish there was more info about this. I really appreciate the post
Edwin,
Thanks so much for keeping a link to Flea on your blogroll, more than three years after I disappeared. It means more to me than I can say.
best,
RPL
My pleasure. Great to see you again! Onward and upward brother!
Mr. Leap, Please publish your address so my dog Maggie can find your yard and crap in it.
Now, now Bruce! I don’t want to hurt Maggie, so no reason for hostility; especially on my blog! I never said I hate animals, or that animals aren’t good or useful. I simply said that some people neglect their human connections, and their own health and well being, for that of their pets. I don’t think I’ve ever had this much hate-mail for a column. I wonder what that means? One person said that they would rescue their dog from drowning before me, since it was family. Is that really how we want to think?
Great weblog, lover! edwinleap.com | ‘Anything but that!’ Things non-medical is basically something. We are establishing mine before long and that i will surely backup parts of your own, legally obviously
Dr. Leap
Good afternoon. My name is Dave McCausey, and my brother, Scott, had you on his radio show…Speak Up.
I have been praying for you and your family. How is Jan and the rest of the family doing?
God Bless
Dave
Hi Edwin,
Just wanted to let you know that I think your blog is great. There is a lot of incredible insight to be taken away from your fresh and unique prose, and I encourage you to keep up the great work.
I was wondering if you’d be interested in hosting a guest blog? I run a radiology resource website and I have recently begun reaching out to those in the medical community. We could come up with a topic for the article together, or if you’d like, I could pitch you a few ideas that I’ve got of my own.
It would be really great to hear from you, and I appreciate your time and consideration.
Thanks,
Anderson
Dr. Leap, I enjoy your writing. I especially like your ability to weave our great freedoms with todays trials. About five years ago you wrote a column re: getting through the airports. Somehow you ended with it’s okay for a girl to carry a pocket knife. Though today, it is a big deal for a little Girl Scout to get through the security at the airport.
As a Girl Scout and now sixty-eight, I understood your point. My Father came to live with us in Seneca in 2007. He was 98, independent physically and mentally. His only problem was thrombocytopenia. He and his MD from out of town had made pledges between them about my Dad’s situation and we all understood Daddy’s wishes. Daddy was still the Patriarch in charge of his dignity and our family. He passed peacefully to be with my Mother his wife of 74 years.
He kept a few personal items in his bedside table. His Will was explicit,except for two instructions he gave to me personally. I was to quitely give our older daughter a certain amount of money in a “Thank you Note”. “You added many years to my life when your asked me not to smoke. We all remember the day you threw Papa’s cigs away because you didn’t want me to die. Just a little gift for a BIG little Girl. Thank you”. Papa
The other special gift was a note to me and his gift of his pocket knife. He said, “Once a Scout, always a Scout.”
At that time, I remembered your column that you so preciously wrote: “it’s okay for girls to carry pocket knifes”.
It has taken me a while to thank you. I didn’t know what lay ahead for me at the time I read your article.
My knife is in a little silk gold pocket in my purse. Daddy goes with me everywhere.
I apologize for taking so long to share this beautiful story with you. Thank you. Your children have a great Father, also.
A retired RN of forty-five years.
Hi Edwin,
Healthline is the process of preparing an infographic titled “10 Common Phobias You’ve Never Even Heard Of (Unless You Have Them),” and we were wondering if you would be interested in including it on EdwinLeap.com.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Warm Regards,
Tracy
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I always enjoy your articles in EMN because you speak from the heart. I’m writing to recommend an amazing course to you, the Avatar Course. On this course you experience a spiritual awakening, a shift from intellectual to heart consciousness, and you perceive the world as Christ or Buddha did. From this place you recognize that people are not unfortunate victims of disease or injury but are powerful creators who chose to experience these situations as part of their spiritual growth and their exploration of life. The doctors I know who take this course agree that it changes them forever. They no longer need to ask why. It is a great comfort as acceptance and awe replace resistance and sorrow. This course allowed me to relate totally differently with my patients, to be present with an open heart that was big enough and wise enough to contain their suffering. As Christ told us, we are much more than we recognize. It is doctors such as yourself who are changing the face of medicine so that doctors can realize their capacity as healers. That is what our hearts truly want.
It’s onerous to find educated people on this matter, however you sound like you know what you’re talking about! Thanks
Speaking of going through the above article we believe this as its real and it is nifty finding an author that’s posting this on the net to review.
Does your blog have an RSS feed? Just found this site and a recent article you wrote about Atlas Shrugging in the medical field. Great stuff. Would like to follow you by RSS if you have it. Thanks!
Hi Edwin. I read your blog about guns after Sandy Hook. You make some good points. But you miss some as well.
You, and your nation are comfortable with guns. You see them in the street, you own one or more, or know people who own them. They are discussed, admired, polished and displayed. They are a natural part of life.
Over here in Australia and in the UK where I used to live this is not the case. At the age of 57 (tomorrow actually) I can honestly say that I know only one person who owns a gun. And he is a cattle farmer. Call me sheltered, because there are gun owners both here and there, of course, but if I do know one they are discrete and don’t discuss them.
When I first came to Australia where policemen and women routinely carry a sidearm I was quite shocked to be find myself walking behind a loaded weapon, I had never seen one before. I am little more used to it or comfortable with it now, 31 years later.
That’s the difference you see. When we get angry and wish to grab the nearest weapon and lash out it is very unlikely to be a semi-automatic rifle because they are not high in our minds. Not the first thing we grab. When our mentally-ill plot against their perceived “enemies” they don’t factor in guns because they have no access to them. Sure, we do all the same things your crazies and angry people do but usually with fists or knives or sticks. And sure, there are casualties, deaths even. There is a campaign running here at the moment to warn people that it in some circumstances it only takes one blow to kill a person. This was prompted by a few incidents where a pub scuffle or neighbourhood fight has become fatal. That is the height of our concern – oh that and deaths from car crashes, illness and so on.
So, what more can you do? As usual,it is difficult for an individual to make any difference. But if you, a man in a responsible and caring profession who is highly regarded by your peers and held to be a leader and a role model in your society were to stand up and say, “I eschew guns. They have robbed us of our peace of mind. They have provided too many opportunities to easily do great harm. They have become too familiar to the innocent, the children, the irresponsible and are too available to anyone who seeks them.” then maybe, just maybe, other like-minded people who are grieving as you are might hear your message and follow suit. It could become a movement which might change minds and attitudes to guns and begin to change your world.
PETER
Hi there, We’re publishing your wonderful wingman, but I’m trying to get a headshot of you and so far haven’t been able to connect with anyone at your hospital for one. If you have a high resolution one (300 dpi), please e-mail it to me. Thanks.
Dear Dr. Leap,
I recently saw your post on Kevin MD regarding the controversies over pain management and pain medication. Education is clearly the key, as was validated in a recent pilot study, The Primary Practice Physician Program for Chronic Pain (4PCP). To that end, I thought you might want to know about the PAINWeekEnd Regional Conference Series. Please visit http://www.painweekend.org for more information on regional conferences convened April-May in Houston, Los Angeles, Charlotte, and Baltimore. These are 1 and 2-day versions of the PAINWeek National Conference, which is now the largest US pain conference for frontline practitioners.
Thank you so much! I’ll check that out. We have to develop new ways of dealing with this problem, and I’m ready to learn some new tricks. I appreciate the link.
Edwin
Edwin,
Just read your article on guns and gun ownership and I agree with nearly everything. I wonder, though, about this part: “So what I want to know is this: what do you want us to do? For those of you uninitiated into firearms, you don’t just walk into a store, pick one up and leave. There’s paperwork, ID to show (it isn’t like voting, after all). There’s either a background check or presentation of a concealed weapons permit in states, like mine, where they are available.”
What about purchases at gun shows? Do these rules apply there?
Dave, if you purchase a firearm at a gun-show, from a dealer, the same rules apply. Sometimes, individuals sell to individuals. However that’s the exception rather than the rule. Furthermore, the commonly quoted data on numbers of firearms purchased privately vs. via a dealer are old and were derived from a small sample size. I’ll have to look, but the number of weapons not subject to background check is pretty low. I can’t remember the last time I purchased a firearm without a background check. Maybe 20 years ago, and from a personal friend who was a paramedic while I was a resident. Does that help? Thanks for writing!
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