Opening quote for my essay Rivers of Life that won the Anesthesia History Association competition. Explores 3 “streams” of circulation in life support, challenges Eurocentric origins of CPR, and raises esoteric Qs about survival.

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Here’s one for #Scanuary: wondered how beekeeping and #POCUS relate? Chap11 in #Scars&Stains explores pearls and pitfalls of POCUS in a seemingly dissimilar parallel.

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Channeled Brad Mehldau’s After #Bach, Wendy Carlos’ Switched On Bach, and the more traditional weihnachtsoratorium, in my final chapter about some different ways to think and talk about death and dying.

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#music in #ICUSky. 2nd prize HEE essay competition. Top social media impact piece ICM From the Inside 2022.

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See 1 do 1 teach 1. An old medical adage. How to balance need to teach in medicine and potential for mistakes?

Reflections on music education and this quote from Miles Davis.

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Blues and Trouble is a complex and thought provoking tale about blues dancing, lung mechanics, antibiotic resistance, and temptation.

Won a Next Generation Short Story award.

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From the “winds of change”, this chapter ends with a survival voyage.

Weill/Gershwin’s My Ship. 🎺
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Maritime analogies abound in this chapter about airway obstruction and tracheostomies. Opening quote from Gettys. Had the pleasure of performing with them and All Souls Orchestra during Northern Celtic tour 2012.

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Chapter 1: a Hanon warmup.

Overviews of the book sections: Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, Exposure.

Scars & Stains: lessons from intensive care.
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