Category Archives: healthcare
Suicide isn’t Painless: The Epidemic of Suicide in the Military
I leave the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth Virginia tomorrow and toward the end of October report as the Command Chaplain for Naval Hospital Camp LeJeune North Carolina. My last time at Camp LeJeune was as part of the Portsmouth SPRINT … Continue reading
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Thoughts on the Occasion of getting ready to Transfer
Two years ago I was preparing to leave EOD Group Two and getting ready to move over to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. At that point in my life I was falling apart. The ravages of PTSD, depression and chronic pain … Continue reading
Filed under faith, healthcare, Military, Pastoral Care, PTSD, Tour in Iraq, US Navy
Busy Night on Duty…Updates resume Tomorrow…wait it’s tomorrow already?
Well it has been a busy day and busy night, not even a leisurely lunch break where I could at least post a Tides update. I’m now behind two of those, the Tides lost the last game of their series against the … Continue reading
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Padre Steve Might be a Mad Cow Carrier and Can’t Give Blood…He’s “Mad” as Hell and isn’t going to take it anymore!
I am guilty yes guilty my friends. I have about a one in a zillion chance of having the dreaded variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease but if your believe those who promote conspiracy theories and unscientific assumptions I am probably something like … Continue reading
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She knew that it was Time….Padre Steve’s Reflections on Pastoral Care Residency
Sometimes death comes unannounced but other times it sounds a warning. Most of the time we think of such warnings as what our body is saying to us, maybe someone is having chest pains or that we know of a … Continue reading
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And it’s One, Two Three Wives You’re out….Memories Residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital ER
Parkland ER (Life Magazine Photo) This is another one of those unusual incidents that I faced during my Pastoral Care Education Residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital. I was in a mood over the weekend and wrote one that was really … Continue reading
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The “Eyes” have it; they’ve got Sammy Davis Eyes….an Experience from My Clinical Pastoral Education Residency
Sometimes you gotta wonder about people, especially some religious people. Of course we can all probably relate to some incident where someone with their religious beliefs led to somewhat unusual situations, funny or tragic situations. Of course when you work … Continue reading
Filed under healthcare, Religion, things I don't get
The End of Adolf the Kidney Stone…Padre Steve Muses on Surgery
Smiling again…Adolf is Dead Well neither the Abbess nor I slept well last night as we waited for morning and the trip to the hospital. I finally got to bed at about 0400 and was back up at 630. We … Continue reading
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Padre Steve Gets Adolf the Kidney Stone Removed: Musings on Laser Lithotripsy
Adolf Von Grosse Schmertzen will see his last sunrise in the morning, or whatever he can view from where he is at in the ureter. Whatever, since he has stayed in his bunker and made my life miserable for the … Continue reading
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Health Care Reform, Socialized Medicine and Adolf Von Grosse Schmertzen my Big Kidney Stone
I believe that the health care system in our country needs to be reformed. A of my opinion comes from my days in seminary and after when the health insurance that I had was not worth the powder to blow … Continue reading
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