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Cold sarcasm

No — There's no rational reason for this. I just created it one night in a sarcastic blitz of crankiness from the cold and lack of sunshine. 

Doctor

Dan Gnagy gets medication during his chemo treatment at Strong Memorial from Linda Ullrich RN, BAN, CON to treat esophageal cancer. I'm so glad I'm not a doctor. Now more than ever I'm utterly relieved I'm not the person who has to find bad things on an x-ray, read devastating results on a lab report, and take that chilling walk back to the exam room to deliver life-altering news. I'm profoundly grateful I'm not the one who has to look into the eyes of a patient and reveal a reality that will knock them to the ground and change their life forever. I'm also deeply indebted to the doctors who are called to do what I will never have the guts to do. I am mightily impressed. Recently I had the great fortune/misfortune/education of sitting in on an interview with Dr. Jeffrey Peters, Thoracic Surgeon and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center. (Yeah, he's an articulate genius who could expound until ...