by Allen Curreri | Feb 13, 2018 | Health, Mindfulness
“Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, ‘Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight....
by Allen Curreri | Sep 15, 2017 | Health, Mindfulness
When the star of the local high school’s football team walks into the ER with a sprained wrist, the doctor on call strides into the exam room. Looking down at an open file listing numerous similar hurts, he asks the teenage athlete if he received his newest...
by Allen Curreri | May 10, 2017 | Diagnostic Aids, Health
What is a doctor to a patient? A tried and proven expert? A bastion of medical knowledge? Only the terminally jaded doubt the motives of most who take up our oldest, noblest professions; generally, patients see doctors as genuine purveyors of health, people who...
by Allen Curreri | Mar 27, 2017 | Health, Medical Technology, Mindfulness
A four year-old-boy is pulled, flatlining, from the bottom of a lake, and rushed to the emergency room. No one knows how long he was underwater, they can only say that CPR was administered, and the boy showed no response. The doctor on call, David Hilfiker, drops...
by Allen Curreri | Mar 20, 2017 | Health, Mindfulness
Many of us wouldn’t think to associate the battlefield prowess drilled into instinct, nor the regimented, pragmatic mindset of a soldier with the peaceful stoicism and abstract self-mastery which meditating gurus exude. However, there does exist a characteristic...
by Allen Curreri | Dec 20, 2016 | Health, Mindfulness
It’s ironic that although we rely on doctors to care for our health, they are rarely able to devote the same time to their own — least of all their mental health. We’ve talked before about the incredible stresses that doctors face every day, stresses that can’t help...