Man, Medicine, and Mike

Reflections on life, being human, medicine, and happenings with me...

My Blog Posts

Welcome! Click on any of the following titles to read its respective blog post:

2024

April 11 | Flora Doesn’t Like to Stop Playing. Could I be so wise as to enjoy the good that is in front of me in this moment?
March 30 | How Did You Deal With It? The existential crisis: How do we accept becoming mortal?

2023

2022

December 3 | The Siren’s Call
October 14 | Magic Moments: Learning to choose to live these moments.
August 13 | The Storm: An amazing story from my grandfather. Learning to live through and face the storms in life.
May 21 | Knowledge Part 3: “Boy, what are you doing?”
May 15 | Knowledge Part 2: Taking a Test vs Real Life
May 1 | Knowledge Part 1: I Was Seldom Wrong When I Was Single
February 25 | Our world is thrown into turmoil. How do we process this?
January 28 | Practicing Medicine. Really? Are you just practicing? I was hoping that you knew what you were doing!
January 6 | The Crest of the Hill Anxiety Syndrome

2021

December 11 | Delirium: Entering Their World and Lessons Learned Along the Way
November 26 | Debates, Uncertainty, Frustration, and the COVID 19 Pandemic
November 2 | The Hype Video: Purpose and Meaning that Drives What You Do
September 18 | Pandemic Stress, Burnout, and Wisdom from a Young Me to an Older Me
September 5 | Sometimes I Pretend They Are My Father
July 25 | So How Are You Really?
July 3 | We Made the Diagnosis of Insufficient Narcissism? Is That Really a Thing?
April 23 | He Just Kept Driving: Do You Overcome Obstacles or Are You Overcome by Them? A Story About an Adult Who Ran Away from Home
April 18 | A Year Later: The Third Wave, Vaccines Available, and Where Are We Now?
April 2 | Compartmentalization: How Putting Thoughts Aside Can Be Both Constructive and Destructive In Your Life
March 20 | My Desk is a Mess Again – The Struggles of a Process Oriented Thinker Living Life in a World of Entropy
February 20 | Mentors
February 5 | What Is a Life Well Lived?
January 16 | Climbing the Rock Wall? What Do You Do When You Can’t Anymore? How Do You Deal with Limitations?
January 9 | A COVID 19 Diary: What Was It Like For Us?

2020

December 19 | Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, a 7-Year-Old’s Dreams, and a Glimpse of Heaven
November 19 | The Little Acorn and Remembrances of My Father
November 4 | Green Bananas, Two Years Negative and Keep Going On With Life
November 1 | The Ice Cream Cone, Stretching My Mind, and Enjoying My World
October 23 | Time Travel, Cancer, Mortality, and a Life Well Lived
October 7 | I am a Goldblatt Dog – Or – Lessons from Harry on How to Learn in Life
September 26 | Life Lessons from an Old Diesel Engine (or How to Live a Wise and Sustainable Life)
September 18 | Mysteries – In Medicine and In Life – And How to Navigate Them
August 9 | What Do You Do When You Cannot See See Out of the Windshield?
July 25 | I eat my eggs over medium now.
July 11 | The Crossing and Lessons Learned Along the Way, Part 3: Sailing the Wind You Have
July 2 | The Crossing and Lessons Learned Along the Way, Part 2: How to Survive the Night
June 27 | The Crossing and Lessons Learned Along the Way, Part 1: Just Keep Going
May 29 | Here We Go Again?
May 22 | The Preflight Inspection and How to Make Decisions in the Era of COVID 19
May 10 | A Desk and a Chair, a Feeling, and the Future
May 2 | The Story of the Miser and the Blacksmith and COVID 19
April 23 | Jury Duty: A Courtroom Drama (In Real Life)
April 17 | The Path Forward
April 4 | Learning, Relearning and Lessons Along the Way (In a Pre-Surge COVID Time)
March 28 | Crash Survival Training and How to Navigate Challenges in Life
March 22 | A Medicine That All of Us Need
March 21 | Is It Really Worth All the Fuss?
March 18 | Unsettled
March 14 | How Do You Live in Uncertain Times?
March 8 | Penance
March 1 | He is very much “in there…”
February 15 | Living Life: I’m Back
January 5 | Four Plastic Tubes and What They Taught Me About Leadership and Safety

2019

December 28 | I Was a Contestant on the Wheel of Fortune
December 12 | He Has the Keys to the Back Door
November 30 | Cognitive Noise, The Practice of Medicine and How We Live Our Lives
November 15 | One Year Scan Is Negative and “Good Morning Right Adrenal Gland!”
November 10 | Filters: How I See the World
November 1 | The Curtains – Or – Mike’s 1st Lesson in Change Management
October 17 | The Lady Cordelia de Montmorency
September 29 | Adrenal Insufficiency: My Latest Health Update
September 13 | What is it that I do? Or – What is an Advanced Heart Failure (AHF) or Stage D Consultation?
September 1 | Depression, Healing, Reconciliation and a Very Interesting Story
August 17 | Freedom
August 13 | Nine Months NED
July 27 | The Assignment
July 12 | Coffee Cups
July 1 | Mediocrity! Mediocrity!
June 23 | Listening
June 15 | Tilting at Windmills
June 8 | I Have It All Figured Out
June 1 | Ta-da!
May 25 | Nostalgia
May 17 | I Want a Vernors
May 11 | The Drive
May 3 | Music
April 26 | Dependency
April 20 | The Old Heavy Flannel Shirt
April 13 | Wisely Managing Life’s Problems or How to Drive an Old Truck Down the Road
April 5 | The Time I Saved the World
March 30 | Becoming an Expert
March 22 | Intolerance, The Church Lady, and a True Definition of Tolerance
March 14 | Returning to Normal?
March 9 | How to Enjoy a Dinner Party
March 1 | Anchors Aweigh – Or How a Prank Taught Me About Being Human
February 23 | Sometimes I Like Rainy Days
February 16 | Why We Bought a Sailboat
February 12 | Free of the Monster
February 9 | What I Learned From Wearing an Ugly Blue Smock – Or – Learning to Be Held and Not Just Hold On
February 1 | How to Drive on a Country Road and What It Can Teach You About Life
January 25 | Scanxiety and No Evidence of Recurrence
January 19 | The Deeper Lessons from “Twelve O’Clock High”
January 13 | Can You Be the Person that the Uniform Demands?
January 6 | Cancer Related Fatigue
January 2 | Back to Work!

2018

December 28 | Burnout. The Sequel. Or – Answers and Treatments.
December 26 | We Have a Beautiful Christmas Tree
December 22 | Our Lives as Well Written Novels
December 17 | On Becoming a Patient
December 14 | The Best Times of Your Life
December 10 | Gentleness and Respect
December 8 | Skydiving Through Life – Or Burnout Chapter 2
December 6 | Lessons We Have Learned From Our Beagle
December 4 | Never Forget the Value of Play
December 1 | Burnout
November 27 | Becoming Mortal
November 25 | Thanksgiving Update!
November 25 | My Cancer…