Heather's personal stories Posts

In Episode 28 How to do the ER (Better than I did), I shared a real story from my own life—as both a physician and a patient—about a 24-hour hospital stay that didn’t go quite as it should have. Along the way, I highlighted what went wrong, what mat…

Surviving illness is just the beginning — the real work that nobody seems to talk about is health maintenance. Personally, I find myself thinking about my health all of the time. After two bouts of cancer, heart failure, and some arthritis and torn …

Fabric curtains don’t make great walls. In my pod in the pre-op area I can hear everything going on in the pods around me. We were all brought back here at once, like driving cattle – herded down the long hospital corridor, through the double doors …