Archive - Couch Nap

Quarterly roundup

Personal reflections on the year so far.

Apr 2 •

and

March 2025

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

Adapting to apocalypse

Well, trying to. Changes are here and we are trying to adjust.

Feb 12 •

and

How to survive a healthcare apocalypse: Top 10 tips from two critical care physicians.

You can't fix everything, but you can fix some things.

Feb 5 •

and

January 2025

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