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 we…

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…

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 d…