Category: A Locum’s ScrapBook
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Excerpt: Basketball & Heart Surgery
And that’s my life, that’s my chessboard. An old playground, made up from, and used up by… a lot of souls that have their own shots to make, and their own goals to defend. A metaphor for my life in the future I guess, a lot of unmet challenges with unnamed players and unfamiliar playing…
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PerfusionART: “PluggedIN”
PerfusionART: “ PluggedIN ” Photographer: Frank Aprile, CCP, BBA, LP Equipment: IPhone 15+ Editing: Photoshop, Correll Paintshop Narrative: A Different Perspective on our Tethers Time & Place: 2024- Somewhere South of Hudson Bay About The Artist: CCP Commentary: All About Life Lines… 🙂
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We Call them HEROES: An American Heart Team in Ukraine…
“Pensiveness best describes the scene, as we swirl our glasses watching the foam tumble down the side of the glass and picking at a cold piece of pizza. We all know what is coming but none of us know what to expect.”
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To Alma Public Schools: Veteran’s Day, 2023
Presented By: Frank Aprile, HM2, USN Length of Service: 4.7 years / Honorable Discharge Stationed: Navy Medical Regional Center, San Diego CA Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, Ocean Side California U.S. Naval Hospital Emergency Room, Subic Bay, Republic of the Phillipines Operating Room Technical School, Navy Regional Medical Center: Bethesda, MD Naval Hospital, Charleston, SC Dedication: SOMETIMES…
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Paper Tigers… Or a Legitimate Code of Ethics?
Editor’s Note: This is Not beating a dead horse after all- I think it’s pretty clear that it is certainly pretty inanimate and lifeless at this point- right? So it stands to reason that a dead horse obviously cant feel the frustration being laid upon it. But it still remains right there there in front…
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Reversing Your Code of Conduct: A Dialogue on Pumping With Your Oxygenator in Reverse
Editor’s Note: Perfusion is a dicey proposition when placing a patient on Cardiopulmonary Bypass. A lot of moving parts, a lot of equipment, a lot of potential for failure. Going on bypass is a very critical moment, similar to when an airplane lifts off. A lot of decisions and observations interplay simultaneously to either establish…
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A Locum’s ScrapBOOK: Hospitals 59, 60 & 61
_____________ Editor’s Note: Typically, I don’t combine three clinical sites into one story, but in this case- due to the calamity of the times this journey from the West coast to a pair of separate hospitals on the East coast remains a story inextricably intertwined. Hospital 59 – was in LA and is sort of…
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A Locum’s ScrapBOOK: Changing Faces
First a shout out- to a couple of very special people that helped me when it was clear I was kinda down and out for the count. Bryan and Kristy you know who you are 🙂 Thank YOU! I typically stray away from sharing any aspect of what motivates me- or causes me to totally…
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A Locum’s ScrapBook: Sometimes… The Bear Gets YOU…
Editor’s Note: Just when you get to the comfort zone of thinking “you are pretty good”? You find out you’re pretty NOT! But don’t get knocked down and NOT get back up. Shit happens, and it happens to all of us. To view the entire “Locum’s ScrapBook” series- click here Sometimes… The Bear Gets YOU… As in everything in…
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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger…
The take home message on this is that I believe in Miracles– And we could use a few of those- so never give up. That’s a shout out to: Our Staff: Our Patients: Patient Families: Our Families _____________ How did I get Here? So I found myself driving South of the Ohio River once again to head back to Daniel Boone country,…
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