by Allen Curreri | Mar 15, 2018 | Health, Mindfulness
Six in the morning, and it’s dark outside. Step through the revolving door, change into scrubs – just another shift. Make the rounds, talk with the nurses. One patient stopped taking their meds; you postpone breakfast to explain why they need to start...
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 | Nov 16, 2017 | Mindfulness
What happens when we take heroism for granted? For the average civilian, the approaching wail of a siren is both a sign of danger and of hope; the promise of rescue in the face of disaster. For firefighters, leaping from a howling truck and into potentially...
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 | 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...