The Back of the Medic

Plastic Bags

Do you remember when plastic grocery bags didn’t exist? I do. However, most stores offer them (“Paper or plastic?”) to customers. Some don’t even offer paper bags any more. Did you know that plastic bags that we use daily (for trash, groceries, etc) consitute 10% of our oil use in this country? Seriously. It takes [...]

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Honeybees and Cell Phones (A connection to their disappearance?)

There has been an ongoing problem for a few years now, nicknamed Colony Collapse Syndrome. Put simply, honeybees are disappearing. Beekeepers are releasing their bees in orchards and fields, and returning to find the colony gone, save for the queen and a few workers, and very immature bees. Up to 70% of honeybees in some [...]

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Earth Day

Today is Earth Day. Please remember to cherish this planet that we live on, and respect it. It is a gift from God.

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I love Event Medicine!

It is days like today that I realize that my love of emergency medicine is alive and well. I worked out at Folsom Lake (a beautiful, albeit man-made lake just outside of Sacramento that provides a lot of the water for this region) for a friend of mine that runs an event medical service, First [...]

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Of Easter and Loneliness

I have always enjoyed Easter. It is a reminder of my commitment to my Christian beliefs. I was baptized on Easter when I was a young girl., at the church that many of my family would go to for years, even if only intermittently for me. I was married in that same church. And it [...]

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