By Sara Ahronheim To the team at Global TV, Relaxing on the couch with my family snoring in their beds, watching some TV to calm my mind before leaving for a busy night shift in my Emergency Department, I was shocked to find myself watching an advertisement that insulted me, my hardworking colleagues, and my […]
By Anonymous Out of the sensitive nature of this post, the writer has asked for it to be posted anonymously. Easy going. Friendly. Sensitive. The words that defined me. I was small. Small in voice, small in force. Hurt by others, and I was someone that took their inappropriate behaviour very personally. “You have to […]
By Tara McCarty Jaxon has a blue metal train that he loves to hold as he falls asleep. It has magnets on both ends , and when you push a button on the back, the train car lights up inside. He shows me the train in the dark while I rock him, and he […]
By Stephanie Hart When I was 17, I went to Europe with nearly 200 other teenagers. I’d been in a marching band since the year I turned 12, spending every free moment for years – and all of my parents’ time and money – on music and movement. This was the culmination of years of […]
By Ginevra Mills “Trauma team STAT to emergency. Trauma team STAT to emergency” “What are we getting?” “I’m not sure – I can hear the helicopter landing, though.” “Watch out, a lot of people are going to be coming in here now.” “Who are you, Ortho? What’s your name?” “I’m Gen Surg.” “GCS 13 on […]