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Blood Needed

Some time ago there was a patient who was a few days past his heart surgery. He had been doing fine but his nurse called

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Holding the Heart

Re-posted from 2015 with minor edits, dedicated anew to all those brave enough to touch hearts.   I asked Dr. Halloran one day if I

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The Virus of Anxiety

It was 4:30am.  I believe I was in the hospital parking garage, although I’m a little foggy on the details. That particular week, I was

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Dr. Abel

I am one of the 10,600 babies Dr. Abel delivered over his decades of medical practice. He was also my medical director for about a

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The Consent 

The other day at 7am I was leafing through the chart of a patient who was about to go for heart surgery, when I saw

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Be a Mary!

“Let me be a Mary!” I wrote this as a prayer in my devotional book one day this week.  I was seated in the closet-sized

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