I’m sitting at a cafe, taking advantage of the free Wi-Fi, and cannot find a way to start another blog entry for the Travel category, and I see a middle-aged man sitting at the table across from me. He dresses in business casual, with grey dress pants, grey like some of the streaks in his […]
Life
Careful with what you ask for
“Only the devil believes a sick man who eats and pisses” said Mr. Iturbide, “That’s what my grandmother used to say”. Agustin Iturbide was admitted to the hospital with intractable abdominal pain and nausea, and had an extensive history of comorbidities that were not helping his case. Agustin was a short man, of thin complexity, […]
Overcoming Single Stories Through Travelling
Years ago, as was a custom while I ate lunch, I sat at my dining table and opened my browser to the Ted Talks website. The Ted Talk I saw that afternoon was about cultures and what we think and believe of cultures different to our own, and how, often, we have preconceived ideas, false […]
Juan Wick
“So you brought your wife to the emergency room and you ended up hospitalized too?” I asked this to my patient who, for confidentiality reasons, I will call Benito Juarez. Mr. Juarez was telling me the odd story of how he was admitted to our Oncology unit. Given the nature of the semi-private rooms at […]
Mr. Red’s Christmas Experience
Some believe spending December holidays working at the hospital is annoying. Well, spending December holidays as a patient at a hospital 2,000 miles away from home takes it all. During the Christmas season of 2016, I met Mr. Red as one of my patient’s, in room 423, at the Oncology unit I work in. Mr. […]