HeyJaredJ Alan
Narrative nonfiction based on a lifetime of memorable experiences, before, during, and after a career in clinical medicine. Plus commentary on medical practice.
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CHILDHOOD VACCINATIONS (opens the original)
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I am a retired physician. It was not that long ago when I took care of a teenage girl, in an ICU, on a ventilator, to keep her alive while she fought varicella pneumonia (chickenpox pneumonia). She had not been vaccinated. Lately, when I have seen officials from the Trump administration talking on TV about vaccinations, they seem, to me, totally out of touch with reality.Seeing them spout off their position about childhood vaccinations has caused me to think about my own history of childhood dis
CASES (18): TODDLER DEATH (opens the original)
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It was a Saturday morning. Darlin’ and I had already been in the building early to administer the anesthesia for a surgical case. It was an emergency C-section with Dr. Wambo, one of my favorite OBs. Dr. Kreider was the pediatrician who was there to care for the newborn when it was wrestled out of the patient’s uterus.When we had delivered the patient to the recovery room and made sure she was stable, we went up to the med-surg ward to make rounds on my inpatients. While we were finishing up rou
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