Time-Based Billing Total time spent in patient care management time including floor/unit time: 126 minutes. Face-to-face time and non-face-to-face time was spent on: discussing goals of care and treatment plan with patient/family along with providers as noted in communication discussion…

[more drafting, rough rough intro] Marseille, France, the country's second most populated city. Surprised? It's a surprise that we hadn't made it here sooner. It's been on our list for years. When a busy port, an historical melting pot and…

Often, an hour out from showtime, before going to my dressing room flights of stairs above, I’d give myself the solitary luxury of walking out onto the empty stage, then sitting in the center of it, letting the dense quiet…

[partner, I'm using today to work on rough draft of an essay...] If learning a new language as an adult will saving me from dementia, I'm good. Nearly twenty years ago when a friend moved to Umbria, I took an…

Strangeness. I'm fighting not to become someone different than I’ve been my entire life. Most people with the chronic disease I have retire. The doctor always talks about his patients who are lawyers and continue their practice, and name others…

Is there ever a moment in life - i mean, really ...think about it- is there ever really a single moment in life that is not strange? That we do NOT hear the unknown that surrounds us call, urging us…

As therapists say, You can feel lonely in a relationship with the wrong person. They're right. That's why I chose solitude over staying in a soul-less marriage. Our growing separation slowly sucked the air out of our home, and I…

"I promise you that if you didn't have that Neuropace, you'd be having much more severe seizures, so much so, sometimes you'd end up in the emergency room." Hard to believe. This epilepsy doctor, the head of the Epilepsy Department,…

There is no finer place than my bed. It is resplendent with the comforting curves made by my body. It is where my ship comes to harbor, to rest and be renewed. I nest there, using my husbands half of…

It was a miracle that I awoke at 11:00 a.m. this morning after working until 5:00 a.m. I knew it would be hot today in Eugene, Oregon, so if I wanted to walk in the woods, I'd have to get…

Maybe the friendship between Emma and Nicole starts out with cruelty from Emma toward Nicole. Maybe, after Nicole ignores her during the first supper that Annie, Nicole and Emma have together, Emma puts rocks in Nicole's bed. But, at this…

Odd….really. How these ideas spring up to write about, and then, even more unpredictably, how the right title flashes unbidden into my brain! Sometimes it surprises even me, the shock of which I usually acknowledge with an involuntary chuckle, as…