Angels in the ER is having an ebook sale: $1.99 (regularly $13.99) Amazon Apple iBooks Barnes & Noble Chapter 1 The Nature of the Beast Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me...
October is approaching and I find myself reflecting upon years past and past Halloweens. For those of us who are parents or grandparents, we now face the increasingly daunting task of coming up with a costume for our little ones. The choices are...
Today we’re going to consider some questions that our patients have recently posed. * * * “Doc, I’ve got bad indigestion – reflux they call it – and have been on stomach medicine for years. My sister-in-law tells me it can cause problems if I...
Whooping cough. You probably haven’t thought much about it in a while, maybe never. And is it “Hooping” or “Wooping?” I looked it up in Webster’s and still don’t know. Anyway, this is an infection that’s been around for a while. It’s caused by a...
Sometimes you just have to do that—bust some bubbles. In the healthcare arena, those bubbles might be some dogma we’ve long held onto. It might be a medication or treatment that we’ve used for years or even decades, and then learn that it really...
I’m excited to share an ebook sale on a number of my books July 31- August 31! Below is the full list… happy reading! Angels in the ER Amazon Barnes & Noble Christianbook.com Google Play Apple iBooks Kobo Angels and Heroes...
At least that’s what Ida Marshall said, and she should know. She had celebrated her ninetieth birthday a bare two weeks before she fell in her garden while tending her tomato plants. She came into the ER by ambulance with a smile on her face, her...
When most of us think about drug/substance abuse in young adults, we probably think of marijuana and cocaine, and for a lot of areas in the U.S., we would be right. And there’s some good news here. Thankfully, illegal drug use in general seems to...
“Ms. Avery,” I said, glancing down at the chart in my hands, and then back up to the woman lying before me on the ER stretcher. “I’m Dr. Lesslie. What can we do for you tonight?” Mary Avery was 82 years old and had come to the emergency...
“Freedom!!!” The courageous and determined roar from William Wallace echoes across the centuries, or at least in the way Mel Gibson portrayed the last moments of that Scottish hero. Freedom. The word means different things to each of us. For...
Some things make a lasting impression. A few years ago, our minister posed a question to the congregation during one of his sermons. He asked, should we find ourselves with the limitation of possessing only two books of the Bible, what two books...
Now that we’re headed into summer, it seems appropriate to consider some of the maladies that affect many if not most of us during this season of the year. And maybe we can clear up some of the confusion that surrounds these issues. First – tick...
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