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My Everyday Life
Each one of us is dealt a unique set of odds. Follow Jon, Emily, Alex, Molly, and Rachel as they navigate the odds of their everyday lives.
TUESDAY - 29 ACROSS: BETWEEN HEALTH CARE AND A HARD PLACE
When I was hired at my place of work last August, I was given health insurance. I was really happy about this. I was ecstatic, mostly because I hadn’t had health insurance in a really long time. I was living in Cambodia for nearly three years, where health care is something to be avoided if you can help it.
MONDAY - THE RE-EDUCATION OF JON PITTS-WILEY: HOW MANY OF US HAVE THEM?
As we grow up and become men whose lives revolve around more than sleepovers or game tape or college visits or bachelor pads, I recognize my friendship with Kelechi set the tone for many of my adult relationships.
FRIDAY - MAKING ROUNDS: TIME TO WORRY ABOUT MYSELF
Medical students and residents are probably some of the least healthy, most non-compliant, terrible patients you could ever meet.
THURSDAY - KNOCKED OFF BALANCE: ANATOMY OF A TANTRUM
This morning’s cycle of doom started off when a friendly parent who had already gone through the front door opened it for Finn. Big mistake.
WEDNESDAY - LETTER FROM AFGHANISTAN: THINGS HAVE CHANGED
The gym looked like something you would find in a prison yard: a bunch of sweaty tattooed guys standing in an odd circle around one grunting man struggling to thrust a barbell upwards. And then the Air Force arrived. This small piece of heaven, or hell depending on how you look at it, was about to get a lot larger.
TUESDAY - 29 ACROSS: NEW KID ON THE BLOCK
Those first weeks in Boston, when I knew no one, I tried planting little seeds of life wherever I could. I found a guy on Craigslist to help me move some furniture, and offered to buy him breakfast afterwards. I made plans to get coffee with my landlord. Twice.
MONDAY - THE RE-EDUCATION OF JON PITTS-WILEY: SOCK IT TO ME
As I jumped into bed last night, I found myself puzzling over various things; the sort of puzzling one is wont to do when they are trying to get warm in bed and aren’t yet at the point where their brain has volunteered to shut itself down for the evening. Sitting there, I stumbled upon a question: How come guys in porno don’t take their socks off?
FRIDAY - MAKING ROUNDS: LOSS
There’ve been a range of reasons identified as to why medical students lose empathy: stress, the ward focus on problem solving, lack of role models, increase in cynicism. For me, I think it’s a mixture of de-sensitization and self-preservation.
THURSDAY - KNOCKED OFF BALANCE: MOVING ON?
I’ve had an odd case of wanderlust lately, and not just thirst for travel, which is a permanent condition with me, particularly since I’ve had three kids who aren’t the world’s best travel mates. I’ve been thinking a lot about moving.
WEDNESDAY - LETTER FROM AFGHANISTAN: STAYING CONNECTED
The Internet also seems to work when I don't have any pressing issues and lots of time to kill—when I decide to try and get back in touch with "the world." I seem to exist in my own bubble, unaware of the planet Earth passing by around me.
Archives
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2010
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May
- Tuesday - 29 Across: Between Health Care and a Hard Place
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: How Many of Us Have Them?
- Friday - Making Rounds: Time to Worry About Myself
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Anatomy of a Tantrum
- Wednesday - Letter From Afghanistan: Things Have Changed
- Tuesday - 29 Across: New Kid On the Block
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: Sock It to Me
- Friday - Making Rounds: Loss
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Moving On?
- Wednesday - Letter From Afghanistan: Staying Connected
- Tuesday - 29 Across: Crossing Paths in Mumbai
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: A Thousand Words
- Friday - Making Rounds: Is It Worth It?
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: The Hard Truth
- Wednesday - Letter From Afghanistan: The Perspective From Here
- Tuesday - 29 Across: The Ups and Downs of Being Alone
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: The Nature of Dreams
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April
- Friday - Making Rounds: Parents and Doctors Don’t Always Agree
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: The Yeller
- Wednesday - Letter From Afghanistan: Guts, Glory, and Gummy Bears
- Tuesday - 29 Across: Once Upon a Bloody Spring Dawn
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: If I Could But Forget
- Friday - Making Rounds: Life? What Life?
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Deep Thoughts
- Wednesday - Letter From Afghanistan: Running in Circles
- Tuesday - 29 Across: This Just In: It's Not Easy Being Green
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: One Month Later
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Never Enough
- Wednesday - Letter From Afghanistan: "Sir, We Have Something"
- Tuesday - 29 Across: “You’ll be a Bette Davis in Boston.”
- Monday - The Re-education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: The $64,000 Question
- Friday - Making Rounds: On
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Goodbye Big John
- Wednesday - Letter From Afghanistan: Killing Time
- Tuesday - 29 Across: The Other Women
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: Great
- Friday - Making Rounds: Do No Harm
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Molly, Master Painter
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March
- Wednesday - Letter From Afghanistan: The Path Not Taken
- Tuesday - 29 Across - Gotta Hit the Sauce: Tales of a Crossword Addict
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: Right on Time
- Friday - Making Rounds: White Coat Imposter
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: What Mothers Give Up
- Wednesday - Letter From Afghanistan: Sphincter Control
- Tuesday - 29 Across: Crazy Enough
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts Wiley: Can I Holler?
- Friday - Making Rounds: Baby Steps
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Nature or Nurture?
- Wednesday - Letter From Afghanistan: Skirmish—Avoiding The Hurt Locker
- Tuesday - 29 Across: Let's Call Him Oliver
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon-Pitts Wiley: Controversy
- Friday - Making Rounds: Lookin' for Specialty Love
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Cold Feet
- Wednesday - Letter from Afghanistan: The Burden of Leadership
- Tuesday - 29 Across: The Daughter
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: The Well of Woman
- Friday - Making Rounds: Class Rank and File
- Thursday - Knocked off Balance: Guilt—a Way of Life
- Wednesday - Letter from Afghanistan: Baptism by Fire
- Tuesday - 29 Across: Happy Birthday to Me—Twenty-Fine
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: Juicy Fruit
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February
- Friday - Making Rounds: My First Time
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Jockeying for Position
- Wednesday - Letter from Afghanistan: In Country
- Tuesday - 29 Across: Plus One
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: Lessons of a Feather
- Friday - Making Rounds: "It's Just Like Grey's Anatomy!"
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Doing Time
- Wednesday - Letter from Afghanistan: Flashback
- Tuesday - 29 Across: The Reluctant Bostonian
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: The Odds of Me
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May
