Author: Edwin

You want what?

Tonight a young man came in by ambulance.  Upset at losing his job, he wanted to ‘get messed up’. He took 14 Klonopin (0.5mg), drank two pints of liquor and smoked some marijuana.  He fell off a porch (surprise!) and...

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On money, medicine and anger

I just posted a column I had written about EMTALA.  For those not in emergency care, it’s a law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.  It exists, as the column says, to ensure that no one gets turned...

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What is good in life?

Remember the line from Conan?  I don’t think my quote is exact, but it was something like this:  ‘Conan, what is good in life?’  ‘To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, to hear the...

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