Archive - Couch Nap

Patient Care or Profit Margin: The Private Equity Paradox

Learning from the Steward Health Crisis

Mar 28 •

How To Be a Patient, Part 2: How to Deal With the Emergency Department

What to take, what to ask, and what to do after going to the ED.

Mar 19 •

No safe space: violence against healthcare workers

Healthcare heroes bleed too.

Mar 12 •

Stories of the unvaxxed: measles and flu

Obviously, both sucked.

Mar 5 •

and

February 2025

What to do when your baby is hospitalized: Actionable advice from a NICU doctor

I would help you at the bedside if I could. This is second best: tips from over a decade of supporting families.

Published on Babies, Explained • Feb 23

Beat the Flu: Essential FAQs

Expert Answers on Prevention, Treatment, and Symptoms

Feb 19 •

and

Dealing with the flu

Accidentally method writing.

Feb 19 •

and

January 2025

It's In Their Bones: What fractures can (and can't) tell us about abusive injury.

Examining bony injury in the wake of a recent NICU nurse arrest for child abuse.

Jan 29 •

Welcome to Couch Nap!

Jan 28 •

and

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Doctor Life, Navy Wife: Reflections on 2024 - Hopes for 2025

Serving patients when my partner serves in Japan: growth, return to long-distance and meeting all the dogs.

Jan 24 •

When the Doctor becomes the IVF Patient: an intro to my journey through fertility treatment

What medical school never taught me about being on the other side of reproductive medicine

Jan 22 •

Don’t get your kidneys in a twist: Why doctors don't recommend detox teas, but influencers do

And if a doctor does, they're practicing grift, not medicine.

Jan 12 •

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