Everything Is An Emergency

Oh fuck, you're still sad?

Grief gets an expiration date. Just like us.

Sep 18 • 

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May 2025

Seeing as a doctor, seeing as a wife

Both good medicine and beauty are in the eye of the beholder.

May 1 • 

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March 2025

The Seliger Act (HB701): Testimony for a New Law

My infant daughter is asleep, my husband Jake is dead, and the drug that might have kept him alive long enough to meet her languishes on a shelf—out of…

Mar 4 • 

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February 2025

The Year I Didn't Survive

Grief and new motherhood have transformed my brain, my body, and my sense of self.

Feb 11 • 

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November 2024

The "YaYa Yeet and Pop Drop": Dumping The Elderly At The ER Is A Cherished Tradition

Don’t let old people ruin your holiday. Come to the ER for the "YaYa Yeet" (alternately known as the Pop Drop), an annual event where you can abandon…

Nov 28, 2024 • 

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October 2024

The Book of Love

Jake died ten weeks ago. Our daughter Athena is due to be born in two days. She became real for Jake before his life ended. How do I make him real for…

Oct 25, 2024 • 

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August 2024

In Memory of Jake

A brief update and a broken heart

Aug 13, 2024 • 

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How to let go: one life ends while another begins

I'm seven months pregnant with our daughter as Jake's life comes to a close. How do I walk into an uncertain future without him?

Aug 6, 2024 • 

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July 2024

The drugs killing dying patients are the drugs they can't get.

The FDA is regulating patients to death.

Jul 1, 2024 • 

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June 2024

Me on Richard Hanania's CSPI podcast

Where we discuss the inexcusable torpor of the FDA, the Kafkaesque world of clinical trials, and how weird it is to have a job where naked men on PCP…

Jun 22, 2024 • 

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An Atlas of Vanishing Places

Where do you find the life you once lived when the places you lived it are gone?

Jun 10, 2024 • 

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May 2024

Heloooo, nurse!

Don't let the kitten sweatshirt fool you, Granny's seen a thing or two....

May 8, 2024 • 

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