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Nikole Hannah-Jones Asked If She Made the Right Choice. I'm Asking the Same Thing. (opens the original)
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Asked If She Made the Right Choice. I’m Asking the Same Thing.My son is younger than her daughter, but the question is the same: how do you push your kid without handing him the pressure you carried?Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay about her daughter’s schooling came out this past weekend, and I haven’t been able to shake it, not even through a long day of surgery.If you missed it: in 2015, she and her husband chose P.S. 307 for their daughter, a Brooklyn public school serving mos
Case of the Day: The Tip of the Iceberg (opens the original)
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Welcome to the first Case of the Day: real patients, real decisions, and the science behind them. Fair warning, this one includes surgical photos of open wounds.Partway through surgery, we picked up the phone and called the owner.Not to deliver bad news. To ask permission to stop halfway.We’ll call our patient Scout. Scout,Miniature American Shepherd, came in with dog bite wounds on both sides and drains already in place. The plan was to clean out the wounds and most likely cover them with a lar
If I scream (opens the original)
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If I screamed,Would I hear me?,Would all my thoughts be surprised?Silence the doubt,If I suffocated…Could I sleep?Safe and sound.
Life Has Been Life-ing (opens the original)
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Hi friends,A quick update, because it’s been a while and you deserve to know where things stand.I’m still working on all three novels — Stone Remembers; Arrangements, the one about an ancient detective; and The Scent of Ash, the one about a boy and his Great Dane. They haven’t gone anywhere. They’re just waiting patiently while life does what life does.And life has been life-ing.We moved. I managed to get us into a house right before the school year started — and it has a pool, which my son is t
6 Months in (opens the original)
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I don’t follow my own numbers. Never have. Whatever tracking your own stats does for other people — that little hit every time the dashboard ticks up — I decided a long time ago it does the opposite for me. So when I sat down for my six-month review and the person across the table told me I’d finished second, second overall and top two in nearly every category they measure, I assumed, honestly, that they’d pulled the wrong file.They hadn’t. And I’m going to tell you why that was almost beside th
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