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Patrick Wade of the Champaign News-Gazette had a fascinating story about the creation of a new Torah by hand. Here's how it begins:
Crammed into an overflowing living room in the Chabad Center for Jewish Life on March 4, dozens of faithful onlookers suddenly fell into silent anticipation.
Rabbi Gad Sebag has been inking pages of parchment for about a year. There are 304,805 letters on a Torah scroll, each with its own unique curves and ornate accents. Tradition dictates how each letter is written, right down to the spacing and the all-natural ink itself.
Sebag has written nearly the whole thing with painstaking care. Now he's seated at the head of the crowd - in a house where there's only enough room for everyone else to stand - with the parchment unrolled in front of him. He's almost done, and a mistake here would be devastating.
For the last hundred letters or so, celebrants lined up to assist. They are all from different segments of the Jewish community - some from Champaign and Urbana and some students. Others have traveled farther distances from central Illinois. Some have come from the East Coast.
I'm always fascinated how so much of congregational life in the United States is not reflected in the news coverage. This is somewhat understandable, in that the day-to-day drama of a congregation isn't as exciting or as easy to report as some radical political move by a denomination's headquarters. But because we focus on the political and the dramatic, we miss some great stories at the local level.
So I just love that the reporter covered this. And it got wide play, which means that many people were interested as well.
The reader who sent it in spoke well of the story but had some quibbles as well:
I was struck by a few things in this story. First - what a great potential story! It *is* an accomplishment, and one that the public doesn't know much about. Which leads me to my second thought: is it just me, or does this story feel really incomplete? It doesn't really tell anything about Torah-making, or how rare it is, or whether it's a tradition shared broadly among Jewish sects, etc. It also doesn't really define what the Torah is or its place in Jewish culture/tradition.
I actually enjoyed the story a great deal but these criticisms are valid. Even in the excerpt above we're left wondering what, exactly, "different segments of the Jewish community" means. It's never really explained. A Chabad Center is mentioned again later, but is that the only portion of the community we're talking about?
The story is well written and evocative. He describes "an 'ayin,' a Hebrew letter that looks similar to an English 'y,' but with ornamental dollops of ink on top, like flames on candles." Nice, right?
Sebag, on the other hand, has inked millions of letters in 22 years. During the year he's been working on this scroll, he has replicated the story of the Jewish people from the creation of the world. He has been there while they were enslaved in Egypt, through the plagues and their escape. He has written through their wandering of the desert and when Moses was given the 10 commandments on Mount Sinai. Now he has taken them nearly to the border of the "Promised Land" of Israel.
The Torah is central to the Jewish faith, and Sebag's nearing completion of a new scroll is cause for great celebration. To the Jewish community in Champaign-Urbana, said Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, it sends a message during a time of strife and concern. When it's completed, the new scroll itself will last 200 years or more.
This does assume that people know precisely what The Torah is, which may, sadly, be assuming too much. Still, it's a nice story and one that gets a great deal of information into a small space.
Torah image via Shutterstock.


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Mayor Don Wesely recognized eight individuals, organizations and businesses April 26 at the 15th annual Lincoln-Lancaster County Environmental Awards banquet. The awards are presented to those who help protect and improve Lincoln's health and environment and further promote environmental stewardship to citizens of the community.
The Waste Reduction and Recycling Award recognizes efforts to reduce the amount of waste produced and to recycle. The recipient was Midland Recycling of Lincoln, which operates the largest material recovery facility in Nebraska. The firm processes all the recyclables from the city drop-off sites and participates in community events such as "Clean Your Files Week" and the "Cans 4 Books" program. which donates five cents for each pound of aluminum cans received to a designated school to purchase books. Midland Recycling has also worked with the University of Nebraska in a pilot project to see how much of the waste from a football game could be recycled. The firm recycles all plastic used at the home games and contributes the proceeds to the University's Ecology NOW Club.
The Water Conservation Award recognizes businesses or industries for their efforts to reduce water use and/or to educate others about water conservation. This year's award was given to three organizations: the Capital Soccer Foundation, the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District and Goodyear. The three worked together to help the Capital Soccer Foundation obtain water for its soccer fields at the Abbott Sports Complex. The complex was designed so rainfall run-off would go into a three-acre pond which would be used to irrigate the 21 soccer fields. Recent drought conditions have made the pond too low for this purpose requiring the Foundation to look elsewhere for affordable water.
Goodyear agreed to let the Foundation use cooling water discharged from its plant for watering the fields. The Lower Platte South NRD arranged for easements across the old city landfill and private land along Salt Creek to allow three miles of irrigation pipe to be installed to reach the Abbott Fields. Pumping water from the drainage ditch to the pond allows the Abbott soccer fields to be kept in good shape for the thousands of people who regularly use them.
The Clean-up and Beautification Award for improving the visual quality of our community went to Curt Donaldson for the unique, low cost, environmentally friendly bridge he built in Wilderness Park.
High water over the past several years has led to rotting wood in some of the bridges along the park's trails. Some bridges have been washed out or removed. Donaldson researched an economical bridge design that could be built without large cranes and equipment. With the help of an engineer, he designed and built a "bow string bridge" using only hand tools, winches, and cables. He will build at least one more bridge in Wilderness Park this summer.
The Residential/Commercial Development Award recognizes projects that go beyond standard building practices related to "green building" techniques; reduce waste during construction; use drought tolerant landscaping; are energy efficient; or use other practices designed to protect public health and the environment. The winners are the first "green buildings" constructed by the City of Lincoln: the Loren Corey Eiseley Branch Library at 15th and Superior and the Bess Dodson Walt Branch Library on South 14th. The libraries use environmentally friendly materials such as linoleum floors and tackable wall surfaces; fiberboard with 100 percent recycled contents; recycled rubber flooring in staff work areas; less hazardous paints and glue; low-use water fixtures; and a state of the art ground-coupled heat pump system.
The Pollution Prevention Award recognizes efforts to prevent pollution, particularly the reduction in the use of toxic materials. This year's winner was Businesses for Environmental Leadership, a volunteer program made up of businesses in Lincoln and Lancaster County that have made a commitment to protect and preserve the environment for future generations. A steering committee of 20 businesses representing 15 different industries has established levels of certification that businesses may attain as they work to reduce their use of toxic chemicals, to use less harmful processes and to implement energy efficient improvements.
The Environmental Education and Awareness Award recognizes efforts to provide or support environmental education programs or to increase awareness about local environmental issues. The winner was Audubon Spring Creek Prairie south of Denton. The 626-acre site was purchased in 1998 to save it from development and to create a prairie nature center. Tall grass prairies are one of the rarest eco-systems in North America. Spring Creek Prairie, with more than 500 acres of tall grass prairie, is one of the largest undisturbed prairies of its kind in the state. More than 350 plant species and 150 bird species have been identified at the site, which includes wetlands, woods and streams. Spring Creek Prairie is one of the few remaining places where wagon ruts from the Nebraska City/Fort Kearny Cut-off are still evident.
The Lincoln-Lancaster County Environmental Awards program is coordinated by the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department and the Lincoln Public Works and Utilities Department. This year's corporate sponsors were the Lincoln Solid Waste Management Association; HDR; Pfizer Animal Health; the Pepsi Cola Bottling Company; Novartis; Square D; Goodyear; and Cornhusker Bank.
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Yeah the problem is not Bylsma, the problem is RS. Bylsma cannot turn turds into gold. RS spent his entire tenure drafting defensemen, that is not Bylsma's fault.
I don't really fault Shero at this point, either. His main goal is to get as many puck-moving defensemen as possible. We have the top two players in the world, get them that puck. Get it to them quick and flat. With the current glutton of these types of players in the system, some will be on the trading block at some point. And look at what he can turn a mediocre puck mover into - Neal and Niskanen.


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Family stories are much more compelling when you have a face to accompany a historical narrative. This post however is not about words but rather the lack thereof. In honor of Wordless Wednesday, I am grouping all of my favorite family photographs of de Büren women from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Enjoy!
Jeanne de Büren (1905-1996)
Natalie de Büren (1903-1986)
Cousins Alice de Büren and Cécile de Freudenreich
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Researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences are part of a new, multi-state project to study the brown marmorated stink bug.
The research is funded by a recently announced $5.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture through its Specialty Crops Research Initiative.
The three-year project is aimed at developing economically and environmentally sustainable pest-management practices for the brown marmorated stink bug, which has caused millions of dollars worth of crop damage and become a major homeowner nuisance since it first was found in the United States, near Allentown, in the late 1990s.
Penn State will receive nearly $900,000 of the grant to study stink bug biology and behavior, develop monitoring and management tools and practices, and provide Extension education programs to disseminate new knowledge to crop producers.
"It's too early to put a dollar value on crop damage this year, but the apple industry alone estimated losses of about $37 million as the result of stink bug infestations in the mid-Atlantic region in 2010," said Greg Krawczyk, extension tree-fruit entomologist at Penn State's Fruit Research and Extension Center in Biglerville.
Krawczyk, who leads the Penn State portion of the project, noted that crop damage this year appears to be lower than last year, though it varies from region to region. "Growers who experienced big losses last year managed this pest better during this season, but some individual growers still suffered losses of up to 60 percent," he said.
Because the brown marmorated stink bug is native to Asia, it has few natural enemies in North America, allowing populations to grow largely unchecked. The pest is known to feed on as many as 300 host plants and migrates readily, further complicating control.
Krawczyk said one of the goals of the research is to develop control tactics that rely on the principles of IPM, or integrated pest management. IPM utilizes a variety of methods -- including biological controls, pheromones for mating disruption and other techniques -- that help minimize pesticide use.
He explained that some broad-spectrum pesticides that are effective against stink bugs also kill the beneficial insects tree-fruit growers rely on as part of IPM programs. "That upsets the balance in the orchard ecosystem -- allowing other pests to become more of a problem -- and could reverse much of the progress we've made in IPM, which has helped Pennsylvania growers to reduce pesticide use by as much as 75 percent in recent decades."
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Penn State scientists will study stink bugs as they relate to the production of tree fruits, vegetables and grapes. Researchers will explore biological control options, stink-bug chemical ecology (chemically mediated interactions among plants and insects), and monitoring strategies. The project also will assess the pest's economic impact and the economic feasibility of new management methods.
Krawczyk said although the research will focus mostly on specialty crops and will not directly address infestations in homes or in major agronomic crops such as corn and soybean, knowledge gained should aid in the development of recommendations that could be useful for habitat-scale management.
Other Penn State personnel taking part in the project include David Biddinger, senior research associate in entomology at the Fruit Research and Extension Center; Gary Felton, professor and head of entomology; Shelby Fleischer, professor of entomology; Jayson Harper, professor of agricultural economics; Steven Jacobs, senior extension associate in entomology; Michael Saunders, professor of entomology; and John Tooker, assistant professor of entomology.
The project is led by USDA's Agricultural Research Service, along with a core group of land-grant universities: Penn State, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, and the universities of Maryland and Delaware. Also participating are researchers from Cornell, Oregon State University, North Carolina State University, Washington State University and the Northeast IPM Center.
More information about the brown marmorated stink bug is available online at http://ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/brown-marmorated-stink-bug.


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A stable wormhole permanently providing a shortcut between areas is almost unheard of-they normally open and close in seconds-so the one near Barzan II attracts several bidders until it is found to be normal and unpredictable. The Barzan side's entrance appears every 233 minutes (time scale unknown), due to radiation buildup in its accretion disc, and the visible burst is very brief. Opaque and spherical when viewed head-on and tenuously bluish, it has a black interior and a spinning glittering corridor; weaponry such as Ferengi missiles don't affect it. A primitive Barzan probe had revealed the other side as the Gamma quadrant, a century's travel away even at Warp 9, but Chief Engineer LaForge and Lieutenant Commander Data emerge to find themselves 200 light-years from that spot, in the Delta quadrant. When the unstable end departs, subatomic meson and lepton activity increases, as does gravitational acceleration.


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Partial thromboplastin time (PTT) is a blood test that looks at how long it takes for blood to clot. It can help tell if you have bleeding or clotting problems.
Alternative Names
APTT; PTT; Activated partial thromboplastin time
How the test is performed
The health care provider uses a needle to take blood from one of your veins. The blood collects into an air-tight container. You may be given a bandage to stop any bleeding. If you are taking a medicine called heparin, you will be watched for signs of bleeding.
The laboratory specialist will add chemicals to the blood sample and see how many seconds it takes for the blood to clot.
How to prepare for the test
The health care provider may tell you to stop taking certain drugs before the test. Drugs that can affect the results of a PTT test include antihistamines, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), aspirin, and chlorpromazine (Thorazine).
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How the test will feel
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain, while others feel only a prick or stinging sensation. Afterward, there may be some throbbing.
Why the test is performed
Your doctor may order this test if you have problems with bleeding or blood clotting. When you bleed, the body launches a series of activities that help the blood clot. This is called the coagulation cascade. There are three pathways to this event. The PTT test looks at special proteins, called factors, found in two of these pathways.
The test may also be used to monitor patients who are taking heparin, a blood thinner.
A PTT test is usually done with other tests, such as the prothrombin test.
Normal Values
The normal value will vary between laboratories. In general, clotting should occur between 25 – 35 seconds. If the person is taking blood thinners, clotting takes up to two and a half times longer.
Note: Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
The examples above show the common measurements for results for these tests. Some laboratories use different measurements or may test different specimens.
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An abnormal (too long) PTT result may be due to:
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Defining Emergency
These definitions sound pretty spot-on, right? When thinking about emergency room settings, even, one can easily correlate the words of Webster to what one would necessitate to be a situation requiring emergency medical treatment. A trauma. Broken bones. A heart attack. A stroke. A seizure. Respiratory distress. A cardiac arrest. The list goes on and on and on. When a critical illness or injury occurs, then, we should all be thankful that we live within a society where emergent, life-saving medical care is available.
Lately, though, it seems the system meant to provide this care is being bogged down by questionable decision-making. Instead of providing emergent care, it seems I spend at least half of my emergency room time now playing doctor to chronic illnesses. To pain control issues. To mildly elevated blood pressure readings. To months of nonspecific weaknesses and fatigue. To office appointments sent to the ER because "we are overbooked today." And our ER is not alone. I hear the frustration of my colleagues and see first-hand how overworked most of us who provide health care in the ER setting have become.
A month back, I was in the middle of a very busy shift. Several patients with chest pain (one requiring immediate catheterization), two patients with respiratory distress (one from skipping dialysis and one from a COPD exacerbation), and three patients from a motor vehicle collision presented almost simultaneously to our ER. Within minutes, all of these critical patients had been treated with efficient, appropriate life-saving care. The team on deserved kudos for doing their job well and making a difference in these patients' outcomes.
Walking back to the nursing station, then, I was surprised to find our secretary being berated by a gentleman in his thirties at the counter. His voice was loud and menacing. His face was pinched with anger. His fists were clenched by his side.
"Whoa," I said, walking up to him, standing between him and the secretary, "what seems to be the problem, sir?"
"We've been waiting two hours to be seen by a doctor!" he exclaimed. "What the hell is going on around here?"
Are you kidding? All he had to do was look for himself to find the organized commotion that was occurring in our ER setting. What followed was the briefest of conversations.
"Sir," I asked, "what brought you to our ER today?"
"My daughter's left ear is hurting her."
"For how long?" I asked.
"Two hours," he replied.
Two hours of ear pain? I get it--maybe he was worried about his daughter. I would be as well. But my daughter would also have gotten Tylenol and Advil and watched her daddy patiently wait for their turn to be treated once the dire situation had been explained. Better yet, we would have probably waited until the morning when a call could be placed to her personal physician.
I explained to him that we had multiple critical patients brought to us and we would be with his daughter as soon as possible. "We're all trying our best, sir," I added, "but you're going to need to be a little more patient."
The father stared me in the eye. I stared back. Finally, he blurted out what he had been thinking to say. "Well, then," he spoke, sarcasm dripping from his pathetic words, "try harder." It didn't end there, though. He continued. "This is bullshit waiting two hours to be seen."
Before I could respond, he turned his back and huffed himself back into Room 27 where, the nurse shared with me, his eleven year-old daughter comfortably sat watching TV. "And," the nurse added, "I had already explained to him why they were waiting to be seen."
After this, one of our regulars who had been to our ER over 200 times (since we started tracking in March of 2006) arrived via ambulance. Then a gentleman carrying a big bottle of Mountain Dew was escorted from his ambulance, by foot, into our ER because his main complaint was "I just want to take a nap and was too far from my apartment." Next, an asymptomatic patient with elevated blood pressure for three years, non-compliant with her medications for financial reasons (yes--I noticed the pack of cigarettes hanging from her purse), was sent to us from her family doctor to be cured on the spot. "Go right to the ER," she was told.
Can you appreciate the obviousness of the long waiting times in the emergency department? Although we all pride ourselves on providing expedient care, a four to six hour wait is sometimes the reality for some of our noncritical patients.
As if to hammer the point home, my last patient during my shift that night (I was working 5pm to 3am) was a sixteen year old female who had presented to our ER, via ambulance at 2am, with her mother.
I walked into her room to find this patient and her mother both lying in the cot, laughing while watching TV, the patient in no obvious distress. I introduced myself to them before I started asking questions. "What can I do to help you tonight? What brought you to our emergency room?"
The girl looked at her mother and started giggling, my first sign that she would survive whatever her ailment may be.
"Well," she said shyly, "I've had some burning when I pee for about a week. And," she added, not done "I have something gross leaking from down there (she swept her hand towards her pelvis as she spoke)." Upon further questioning, I learned that she had been diagnosed with a yeast infection from her family doctor one month ago but failed to get her prescription filled. I also learned that she was sexually active with not one, but two partners. Unprotected.
I was disheartened. "What made you come to the ER at 2am when these symptoms have been going on for over a week?" I asked, hoping there was some rhyme or reason to her seeking out emergent care at this time. There wasn't. Her answer to my question--"Why not?" I didn't even approach her on why she came in by ambulance. Some things are better not known, I guess, especially at 2am.
I'm not sure this is the system that was imagined when emergency departments started gaining favor in our society. Don't get me wrong, though. I, like all of my colleagues, are 100% committed to providing respectful and appropriate care to anyone who shows up in our department, whether it be a critical, life-threatening illness or a chronic "nuisance," so to speak.
I can only hope that people will be patient and understanding as we all cope with the evolving changes that seem to be occurring with our health care system. And my hat is off to all the medical folks who work hard, day after day, treating our fellow mankind as best we can within this currently accepted system. Because, even as bogged down as we can sometimes become, what an awesome privilege we have in meeting and greeting and treating our fellow kind. Of helping them out in their time of need.
As always, big thanks for reading. I wish a blessed holiday season to each and every one of you...
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It always amazes me that there aren't any possibilities for American ER docs to just tell their patients to stop bothering them for such trivial nonsense and leave. Moreover, it's plain silly that paramedics can't refuse patients. Why shouldn't paramedics be able to tell yeast girl they won't bring her to the hospital for a evidently non-urgent, non-life threatening matter. As an European I don't really know much about your legislation, so could you inform me: is it required by law that paramedics always dispatch to calls and adhere to a patients request to be brought to the hospital?
- December 21, 2010 at 11:51 AM
- Jean said...
What a great post! I'm not in the medical field, although I used to be an on-call interpreter for ER medical work. I was constantly amazed and confused by the patients' lack of understanding of the word EMERGENCY. Thank you for writing this in such a respectful and thoughtful manner.
Happy holidays!
- December 21, 2010 at 11:57 AM
- Kate said...
My best friend has her own way with the "emergencies" her children present to her. "No one's bleeding, everyone's upright and fed. Now what seems to be the problem." Don't you wish you could at least try to educate people? Seems like you can't tho.
- December 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM
- Pissed Off Patient said...
I wonder if a streaming video presentation explaining what an emergency is and isn't etc....to address these issues would be helpful.
Just run it in the waiting room and the patient rooms. Like an orientation.
- December 21, 2010 at 1:09 PM
- Amber said...
I can't believe these non-emergency "patients" are abusing the ambulance services, and the ER in general. It's mind boggling! I have gone to the ER twice this year, once for a nasty long cut on my leg that I feared was infected (it was), and for a migraine that lasted 3 days and wasn't responding to my normal medications. And both times I felt like I was burdening the system! Great post, like always.
- December 21, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- Sarah said...
That is amazing! I understand the reason for EMTALA- but I think it needs reformation. Much like many other laws in our nation. Mountain Dew man should definitely be booted on the spot. No wonder healthcare costs are so high!
- December 21, 2010 at 1:36 PM
- Have Myelin? said...
Preach it, ERDoc!
My daughter waited ALL DAY in ER to be admitted, only to crash two hours later. Ten days later she died. Gone at the age of 34 and no she did not have to die. Had they checked, (or maybe they did but no hmmmm's were raised) they would have realized she had been hospitalized one month prior for two-three days and she was much worse. Her first illness never cleared up.
ER was full of runny noses, snot, ear infections that day but my daughter had to wait all day. Triage seemingly failed her somehow but I wasn't there. I can only rely on her friend's accounts. "Lots of screaming babies" took precedence over my very quiet daughter. You only heard her if she coughed.
On the other side of the coin I am on Medicaid. I saw my primary care doctor for 45 minutes as I have Multiple Sclerosis and renal problems. He billed them about $75 and his reimbursement was $12.43.
My former doctor dropped me when I went on Medicaid so I have no idea what I will do if he drops me. I can't find a urologist or a renal specialist that accepts Medicaid. I guess if I get concerned enough about my renal issues I will go to ER because guess what...by law they must let me see a doctor but of course one must be poliete and wait their turn unless they are dying.
But how do you know you're dying?
I haven't haven't gone to ER for what many would consider "everyday issues" but I will if I can't find a doctor.
As you can see, I have had a hard look at both sides of the same coin.
I don't have an answer though.
Thoughtful post.
- December 21, 2010 at 3:41 PM
- Kris said...
I am a long time silent reader and fan of your blog. As the wife of an ID physician, I am also very sensitive to the needs of health care professionals. Someone like yeast girl should have had to pay for her ambulance ride.
At the same time, I am a non-medical professional and things like a crying 4 year old with an ear ache at 10 pm (and no urgent care clinic) screams ER trip to me if tylenol doesn't work. Someone who is not a medical professional may not be able to differentiate between something that is a true emergency and something that can wait. For us here, because there is no urgent care part of our ER, unfortunately, things like this will continue to clog the system. I have to also add that the wait to get an appointment with your primary here is currently at about 3 months for an existing patient. I'm sure that this clogs our ER too.
We almost never go to the ER. Recently, I went to the ER though for terrible left-sided facial pain. I had visited my primary and a dentist with no definitive diagnosis or treatment. One night the pain became unbearable. I got the whole "and why tonight if it has been bugging you for 2 weeks" thing from the nurses and the doctor, which made me feel terrible about coming in. I was apologetic ... embarrassed ... and was brushed right out of the ER. When I returned 3 hours later in terrible pain (I have never done anything like this before ... ever), I was handed off to the PA, who at least was kinder to me about it after suggesting that I might be drug seeking...and I'm sure that it seemed that way to someone who doesn't know me. It was weird and terrible.
Later that week, I found myself in the ER yet again ... this time writhing in pain, sucking on ice and sobbing my way through morphine and dilaudid. When these medications did not touch the pain, I was admitted for intractable facial pain and an astute neurologist finally diagnosed me with trigeminal neuralgia and gave me an IV dose of dilantin that put an end to the pain and started me on the path to treatment.
The ER is not intended as a place to offer primary care, but sometimes, it can be the gateway to diagnosis and treatment when unexpected symptoms cause pain or discomfort in the middle of the night. I always treat medical professionals with respect and am thankful ... but I found during my recent health care struggle that I was treated like yeast infection girl.
Just another point of view here ... and I too found yours to be another in a long line of thought-provoking posts.
- December 21, 2010 at 4:13 PM
- Stacey said...
I have a chronic health condition that leads to many dislocations and sprains. I can count on one hand the times I have been to the ER. However I can see why some people will use the ER for non emergent issues. I dislocated my wrist really badly and after a month of no recovery (I usually get better after a few days) I made an emergency appointment with my Rheumatologist who wrote up an xray request and told me to go there ASAP as he feared it was fractured (I also have osteoporosis, I am 29). So we go, I explain it to the xray dept, wait an hour to get it xrayed and then told that my rheumatologist would get the results in 10 days! He had written right on it he wanted it read asap and the fear of fracture. They told me to get his office to call over to request the results (it was no closed as the wait was so long) and he could get them in a couple days then. I had it splinted up, taking pain killers and not using it for a week before my rheumy called and said there were no fractures. During this time I had quite a bit of muscle wasteing (again part of my condtion) and had to take quite a while to build up the little strength that I do have.
All of this becasue I didnt want to abuse the ER and go in for a wrist that just wasnt healing. I could have been told right there that there was no fracture and not had to let the muscles get weaker waiting. When I hear of people like Mountain Dew guy or the Yeast infection girl, it just makes me so mad.
- December 21, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- "Doctor" Matt said...
Spot on! And, I wish all ED physicians were as compassionate and understanding as you are. I've noticed a lot of them shouldering a big load of bitterness over the "nuisances" that abuse the ER.
As for me, hoping to get into a Family Medicine residency next year...I pledge to do my best to educate patients about the proper use of the ED, and keep it available for those who really need it!
- December 21, 2010 at 4:32 PM
- Holly said...
I don't know how I feel about this post.
I work in Law Enforcement and we also get the people who have no critical thinking skills as well as those who have completely confused their privileges and rights.
that said, I came off my horse a number of years ago. Left foot was facing the wrong way when I sat up, but the pain had not hit yet. The ambulance crew was .outstanding. and when they dropped me off in my cubicle one of the fine young men patted me on the shoulder and said "squeaky wheels get the attention".
I am the daughter of a physician. In my house, we did NOT, complain about much. We were taught very early on to be patient and wait. We were taught that it had better be serious if we went to dad. So I waited. Someone (hospital/barn owner or ambulance crew) called my sister and told her I had broken my ankle. Since there was no way for her to know the severity of my injury and nothing more than the break was communicated to her, she finished her dinner and came to the ER expecting me to be ready to come home. What she found (I don't really remember this) was me clawing at my face and writhing with pain. I had dislocated my heel, totally SHATTERED my ankle, and sheared 2 long pieces off my tib. They had given me nothing for pain and it was hours later, my sister went storming into the intake area and they finally came to deal with me. I spent 4 hours in surgery the next day, and a week in the hospital. It was a 3 month recovery at home with pins and a permanent screw in my ankle.
This should never have happened this way. *I* remember seeing my foot going the wrong way before I ever got to the ambulance, so how could the ER have missed that? Also, I was 39 years old at the time, do it was not that I was a minor.
Because I work in LE, I also see the other side of the coin (tho not medically). I see parents who cannot control their kids, women who are mad at their spouses, kids who think we won't let their parents discipline them. All of them expect we will fix the problems they have created. And it makes me incredibly frustrated.
Have Myelin, I'm sorry for the loss of your precious daughter.
- December 21, 2010 at 4:38 PM
- StorytellERdoc said...
After these several heartfelt and thought-provoking comments, I daresay I have some of the best readers one could ever ask for...
A few comments. Kris, your writhing in bed with trigeminal neuralgia cannot be compared to the smiling, giggling "yeast girl." I assure you, though, that she was treated with utmost professionalism.
Holly, you impressed me with your comment, but especially your last line--sending your sympathies and good energy to Have Myelin for her dreadful loss. You have a good soul.
Have Myelin, I am so sorry for your loss as well. May peace find a path to your heart during this holiday season.
To the rest of you, bravo for sharing your insight. I thank you.
- December 21, 2010 at 4:55 PM
- Empress Bee (of the High Sea) said...
yikes, they need something better to do!
this week i called the dr. after hours (7:30 PM) and of course got the service. Sarge had a fever and they told me to call 24 hrs a day if this happened as his wbc was 200 and he had platelets that day. a doc called me back that had never heard of him, asked me if he had cancer and said to go to the er. it was a cya call from him, and the er was unnecessary.
lucky for us we have dr. wacks and we were able to reach him and he told us what to do and stayed with us until the fever was gone and he was able to sleep all night.
otherwise we'd have been in the er with all the germs around him and that's the last place i wanted him to go.
good post doc.
merry christmas!
smiles, bee
- December 21, 2010 at 5:00 PM
- WrightStuff said...
I heard on the news the other day that a woman had called for an ambulance after she had broken a nail. She was fined! I guess at the other end of the scale you get people like my parents who "don't want to worry the doctors" when it turns out that they are having a heart attack and their appendix has burst! Fortunately both eventually got to the emergency room in time for life-saving treatment.
- December 21, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- jojomo said...
I've always been bothered by people who abuse the ER but at the same time, I have found ER doctors that have become jaded by this and it has affected their level of care. Fortunately the ER doctor that was working when my daughter was 2 months old, did not brush us off. We took her in for vomitting and it ended up she was in heart failure and needed a heart transplant. If that doctor had brushed us off, like the triage nurse had, as first time over paranoid parents, my daughter would be dead. Since her transplant, we have had occasion to take her to the ER because she is susceptible to getting ill very fast and has had pneumonia a number of times. I had one ER doc who did not even bother to read the info the triage nurse took so was suprised that she had a chest scar. He found no reason for the fever and coughing we had brought her in for, did no chest xray and wrote me a prescription for an antibiotic and told me he was only doing it because she had a fever. Well duh...why do you think I brought her in in the first place? Because I felt like exposing my immune-suppressed daughter to a multitude of other germs in the waiting room? One time I even had a triage nurse, who had been one of our home care nurses, tell us we should probably just go straight to the children's hospital because our local ER docs would just find a reason to send us there anyways after we sat there for hours waiting. Now we bypass our local ER and go straight to the children's hospital even though I know we have to drive an hour just to get a chest xray and a prescription. But I guess it's hard not to become jaded dealing with people who call an ambulance for a yeast infection :)
- December 21, 2010 at 5:37 PM
- Karen said...
Great post. I worked at a hospital (in a secretarial position) on the Mex border, and my sister is an RN in the ER at the same hospital that has 3,000 ER visits per month. Yes, 3,000! You can imagine how many of those are real emergencies. My pet peeve: Women who are in labor come across the border to the ER where they can't be turned away and end up having their child in the U.S. making the child a U.S.Citizen. Then they go happily back to Mex and never pay the bill. ARGH!
- December 21, 2010 at 8:53 PM
- James Connolly said...
New reader,an MSIV going into EM, so forgive me for not knowing the answer to this. I assume the only reason the yeast infection was being seen by you was that it was 3am and fast track was closed at your hospital at that hour of the night?
I've read all the comments and lots of interesting thoughts, but I don't see any solutions. Granted, its a HUGE problem that is about the health care system is a whole.
As an idea, I've heard that Walmart is supposedly starting walk in clinics to deal with some of these patients. Has anyone seen these in place? If so, has it had any impact on the numbers and types of cases coming to the ED?
- December 21, 2010 at 10:00 PM
It's too bad...that you have televisions in your ED. Patients have to pay $75/ month here to have a 10" screen on a Canadarm drilled into the wall. Maybe your management can't see the forest for the trees when determining how to improve your ED?
As you also claim here, I don't think people know what an emergency is anymore. At any nick, or cut, people will go online to find out what is wrong. The internet could be to blame for rash decision-making about attending the ER for a mild ear ache that has persisted for two hours.
The ED started in WWI, when soldiers were wounded and needed to be fixed up so that they could go back on the lines. Blood, severe, acute pain, acute mental health breakdown— these are conditions worthy of a trip to the ED.
- December 21, 2010 at 10:28 PM
- Katie said...
I would never have the patience to do what you do!
I completely agree with your post. Yet, at the same time I think a lot of us don't know where the line is between nuisance and critical. Obviously, two hours of ear pain = not critical (they had been waiting for two hours and it had hurt for two hours... what?) Sometimes the line is fine. For example, last fall I was in a car accident and opted against going to the ER. One of the emergency responders said, "I shouldn't tell you this but after an accident, always go to the ER. Especially if the accdient wasn't your fault." In this past semester, we've had a lot of other fine-line experiences where we've had to seriously contemplate if an ER visit would have been appropriate. Dog attack? No ER. Lost fight with a color guard flag? ER. Strep throat? No ER. (but we had to threaten it to get her to go to the doctor)
I thought maybe once I could have a short comment... guess not...
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
<>< Katie
- December 22, 2010 at 12:52 AM
- melaniek said...
Love your blog. Generally I'm just a silent follower...but this topic... Anyway, in our neighboring city they have recently opened up a 24 walk in clinic. I'm not terribly sure how much it has helped the two close ERs, but I know if we have an issue with one of the kiddos that can't wait till morning but isn't an emergency it's nice to have a place to go.
Hubby is in the EMS and it's amazing to hear some of the medical calls the fire department has to go out on. I hope someone, someday will be able to find a way to deter people like "yeast girl" from abusing the system. Keep up the great work Doc and Happy Holidays to you and yours!
- December 22, 2010 at 7:07 AM
Myelin, I am so very sorry. There are no words.
Myself and friends/family have generally been treated fine by the ER docs. Where the problem has frequently come in was triage.
I myself have been lucky to have only gone to the ER once, per my doctor's instructions. He said I either had a PE, collapsed lung, or pleurisy. I had a friend drop me off, and by the time I got there I could hardly breathe. I was calm talking to the triage desk though, and was wheeled to the far corner of the waiting room. No one re-checked me, and I couldn't stand. So I sat.
Eventually they took me back, and the nurse told the doctor "She's fine, she's just hyperventilating". Doc put one hand on me, said "What's her temperature?" Nurse said it was normal, doc told her to take it again. 104. Then, they all pounced on me with blood draws, blood gas, xrays, etc. (haha not sure I like so many people pouncing on me, but was too weak to resist by then, probably luckily)
Well, it turned out to be pleurisy, so no harm was done. But being quiet and polite didn't work so well in that case. Then the same nurse that had blown me off said as I was leaving "Pleurisy can be very painful" Gee really - Ya think? I didn't notice. I did well to be polite there.
More dangerously, I have a family member with severe asthma. He doesn't wheeze, he gets a silent chest. No we get "No wheeze", and sent to the waiting room despite a note from his asthma doc telling them he progresses rapidly and asking them to treat him promptly. He has been permanently harmed by this. I'm not as nice with triage as I used to be - national standards for asthma care call for immediate treatment, and I've been known to shove this fact in their face.
Other things, I've patiently waited with people for 8 hours to be seen. Your knee hurts - yep, you wait. I completely understand this, and never complain.
But triage blows off important things sometimes too - it is pretty scary really.
Doctor, I wish we could come to your ER - you are truly one of the good ones!
- December 22, 2010 at 7:15 AM
You need to post a picture of all the germs that can be in the ER by the front desk. Yech.
- December 22, 2010 at 10:58 AM
The Mountain Dew GOMER really took the cake for audacity. Where do people get off abusing our ambulance and ER resources in such an egregious manner?
- December 22, 2010 at 12:26 PM
Great post, as always, doc. This is obviously one of the bigger problems in our healthcare system -- almost like EMTALA was designed to grind our system into dust.
In an ideal world you guys wouldn't need the word "Gomer" -- instead, you'd be able to tell them to get the hell out of your ER. Lawyers have ruined that, of course. You know what really sucks? That Hipocratic oath you guys take. I mean, if someone consistently came in and wasted your time, you should be justified in giving them a foley or something!
- December 22, 2010 at 3:14 PM
You know, I've seen this "stuff" rising like a bowl of yeast. Day after day, year after year, the SAME complaints from ER personnel.
I think one way to help out the crush in the ER is to force clinics to have a PA or an NP running an urgent care in their clinic. Force the private practice MD's to shoulder some of the cost of caring for these folks.
A second way to stem the tide of stupid ER visits is to allow the ER to "turf" all of the minor minor stuff back to the patients MD.
Snotty nose for 2 weeks? Itchy skitchy for a month? Then "we will make an appointment right now for you to see you PCP this afternoon!" Don't let the door hit you in th .....on the way out.
After a while the frequent flyers will get the hint and will avoid the ER.
Now don't go all "liberal, progressive, lefty" on me folks...the way we are doing it right now....ain't workin'....so come up with a better idea!
- December 23, 2010 at 3:42 PM
- type1medic said...
Thank you for such a well written post! I am a medic and we get these pt's everyday but being that they are people I still extend the same care and attention that I would give to an emergent pt. I have learned that the homeless guy that calls ems is really in need of a warm bed in the winter and a meal. The mom of the child with a cold is a first time mom and is still learning. the guy who is the county ems abuser for the smallest complaint is getting over his brothers sudden death and is afraid that he will have a similar fate, all of these pts have, by any medical persons standards, wasted emergency providers time, but I learned that I still helped those people. don't get me wrong I am all about getting the word out on proper use of the ED and EMS system but I now step back and look at the reason behind that persons call to us or visit to the ED.
- December 24, 2010 at 3:03 AM
- "Doctor" Matt said...
I like the wisdom and compassion you express, type1medic!!
- December 24, 2010 at 11:44 AM
- Katie said...
I thought about this post on Christmas Eve (somewhere around 1am). My aunt's a triage nurse at a doctor's office that only sees walk-ins if they have time in the schedule. This particular day, they were booked all day. A man came in with a cough. My aunt triaged him.
Aunt: Yes, you need to be seen but we're full today. You should go to urgent care. This is how you get there.
Mr. Cough: Nah, I'll just go to the Emergency Room.
Aunt: I really don't think that's appropriate. This is not an emergency...
Well, at that moment the secretary came in and said there had been a a cancellation and the doctor could see Mr. Cough. Out of spite, Mr. Cough coughed directly in my aunt's face.
<>< Katie
- December 27, 2010 at 3:34 PM
Unfortunately, this problem has been present over the majority of my 16 years of ER nursing. It has become so frustrating that many of my experienced, seasoned coworkers have completely quite ER nursing. As of November of 2010, I am sadly, now in that group.
I have figured out when this terrible pattern of misuse of our nations ER's started. It was when EMTALA was passed, in 1998 I think? Before that, we could turn away those without emergent complaints, and turn our attention to those who truly need us.
My solution? Abolish EMTALA, and move forward towards re-establishing REAL emergency departments.
- January 1, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- Persephone's Maiden said...
The college I attend is in a small town. There's no urgent care clinic, but there is a hospital-- so if you don't have access to a doctor in town, or can't be seen by one in the state capitol about an hour and a half away by car (or indeed don't have insurance at all) if your prof is a jerk they'll insist that you get a note from the ER to prove that you were sick. I'd rather take the penalty to my grade than humiliate myself and waste the doctor's time to scribble out a note confirming I had food poisoning/flu/minor problem.
- January 2, 2011 at 5:00 AM
- Jenny said...
Another frustrating situation for patients is those of us who do for in for emergencies and doctors/staff don't us seriously because they've heard the same thing before from people who didn't have serious problems.
My (diabetic) dad had his toe amputated 2 years ago. It would start bleeding when he put pressure on it. So he'd sit down, the spot would heal for a bit, then when he got up, it'd bleed again. We wrapped his foot up with a trash bag and went to the ED. We told him his toe was bleeding, but they still made us wait (honestly, it didn't look busy from where we were at). When the doc finally came in to see us, she measured how much blood was in the trash bag and it was something like a quart or so. She was amazed that he hadn't passed out yet. But because people come in bleeding and it's nothing serious, we were not taking seriously (we were not panicking yet).
Sorry to vent, but I feel your pain from the only-use-the-ED-in-emergencies patient's point of view.
- January 2, 2011 at 7:38 PM
- dee said...
This comment gives me hope. I thought that it was only in my country with the 'free health care' that we had these problems. Every day I am continually amazed by what patients call emergency, coming by ambulance no less........Anyway, its good to know that I am not alone. Continue doing a good job with your excellent communication skills.
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Creative & Performing Arts, Music & Culture in Senegal by Barney Eliot
Two months ago, my destination was Dakar, Senegal, transferring in Morocco, and then to continue immediately to St Louis, in the North Western corner of the country. I knew that the journey would take me into the unknown and unnerving well before the sprawling, sand strewn labyrinth of St Louis, as self-reliance and total independence many miles from home were both concepts new to me.
Arriving in Senegal
They were, however, things I could prepare for mentally. The thrill of the unimaginable was brought thunderously to life in a clearly definable moment, when the wheels of my 747 roared against the asphalt of the Airport Mohammed 5th in Casablanca. As I gazed at the static glow of the terminal in the pitch dark early hours, even with such a paltry glimpse, Morocco was suddenly no longer 'the unexplored'. I thought to myself that, by proportion, two months in the city of St Louis would be about enough to establish a second life.
On arrival at Dakar airport at 5:00am, I was picked up as promised by a Projects Abroad member of staff, and fell immediately asleep in the back of the taxi. When I awoke, we had stopped for coffee on a stretch of the desert road lined by corrugated iron shacks and the shrubs and bushels of an otherwise arid landscape.
It was still cool, and the twilight had not yet transformed into the bright heat of the day. The massive silence, the dust cloud that hung over the road for several minutes with every car, and the eyes of curious children peering through the gaps of my embroidered sun screens at the mysterious cargo, making me feel like some ridiculous Imperial figure being ferried through the wilderness, assured me that I was a long way from south London.
Meals with my host family
I had the same feeling as I sat down for my first meal with my host family with the women sat on the floor, 'la chef de la famille' and I on stools, with pieces of fish thrown to our sections of the plate. The faltering French conversation was accompanied by the soundtrack of St Louis- the incessant baying of goats, the patter of distant djembe drums, the meandering tones of Koranic chanting, and of course, five times a day, the bellowing call to prayer.
I would recommend to anyone that they volunteer here; the city is lively, vibrant, and embarrassingly welcoming. People here are quick to help you and feed you, and friendships are effortlessly made.
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My project was under the vague title of Music, and I was the first Projects Abroad volunteer to take this new opportunity. Alioune Mbow, the Manager of Mama Sadio's backing band with whom Projects Abroad had been in touch took me under his wing and into his capable hands with such wonderful care and generosity as I could not have wished for.
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After renting gear for some time I decided to buy my first own quiver, and I cannot decide on the right sizes (or brand or anything else actually ) so I would really appreaciate any help and tips.
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Mount St. Joseph Academy graduated 13 of the 21 players who started out on the 2011 varsity soccer roster, but the consequences weren't as serious as that figure implies.
The Magic have actually returned six starters from last season, beginning with senior co-captains Meghan McCabe and Lisa Roman. The 2011 campaign actually got off to a rocky start, as new head coach Catherine Kulp saw all of the team's scrimmages get rained out. A few weeks in, the Mount was well under the .500 mark, but after rebounding in the early stages of the league schedule, the squad wound up finishing second within the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies and posted an overall record of 9-7-1.
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Current junior Mary Grace McIntyre and sophomores Devon Conway and Maryanna Solecki were all starters a year ago.
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Last year's starting goalie, Becca McCool, has departed with her diploma, but last fall she was out for a spell due to injury, and that gave returning sophomore Meghan Keown a chance to log some time in the net during varsity games. Charlotte Sands, a freshman with good size, is also a candidate for keeper.
Juniors Natalie Bohner, Jenna Cades, and Sarah Lynch, and sophomores Noelle Buchanan and Amanda Steinberg add depth to the MSJ franchise. In addition to Sands, Caitlyn Hagan and M.K. Maloney have made the varsity squad as freshmen.
Defending AACA champion Villa Joseph Marie, the PIAA state runner-up in Class AA, will once again be the primary obstacle for any other school with designs on the league championship. The Mount, a Class AAA program, is looking to boost its power rating for the PIAA District 1 and state tournament seedings, so the Magic have added Delaware County dynamo Strath Haven to the schedule, along with another triple-A team, Plymouth Whitemarsh.


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Physicists announced Thursday that they believe they have discovered the subatomic particle predicted nearly a half-century ago, which will go a long way toward explaining what gives electrons and all matter in the universe size and shape.
The elusive particle, called a Higgs boson, was predicted in 1964 to help fill in our understanding of the creation of the universe, which many theorize occurred in a massive explosion known as the Big Bang. The particle was named for Peter Higgs, one of the physicists who proposed its existence, but it later became popularly known as the "God particle."
Last July, scientists at CERN, the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced finding a particle they described as Higgs-like, but they stopped short of saying conclusively that it was the same particle or some version of it.
Scientists have now finished going through the entire set of data year and announced the results in a statement and at a physics conference in the Italian Alps.
"To me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson, though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is," said Joe Incandela, a physicist who heads one of the two main teams at CERN that each involve about 3,000 scientists.
Its existence helps confirm the theory that objects gain their size and shape when particles interact in an energy field with a key particle, the Higgs boson. The more they attract, the theory goes, the bigger their mass will be.
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Tender Buttons
My friend Joey Keenan, who is a poet, has been urging me to read Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons for ages. When I finally did, it was mind-blowing--a total "paradigm-shift" experience.
Tender Buttons shockingly tosses narrative overboard, and chooses to concentrate on language--its rhythms, sounds and textures. Stein wrote it in 1912, after she had moved to Paris, then the epicenter of the art world. She loved Cezanne's paintings and constructed her prose poems with repetitive phrases and sentences the way he built up his paintings with self-consciously repetitive brushstrokes.
It's pretty clear now that the course of twentieth century art would have been radically different if not for Cezanne. Both Picasso and Matisse (the two leading artists of the first half of the century) have said that neither cubism and its heirs nor abstraction in art would have resulted the way they did, without Cezanne.
In Cezanne's view, art needed to transcend its chains to slavish realism, to "merely imitating nature". Art, in other words, needed to reconstruct reality, not merely reproduce it.
Gertrude Stein said about Cezanne: "He gave me a new feeling about composition. I was obsessed with this idea of composition. It was not solely the realism of the characters but the realism of the composition which was the important thing."
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"Callous is something that hardening leaves behind what will be soft if there is a genuine interest in there being present as many girls as men."
"A blue coat is guided guided away, guided and guided away, that is the particular color that is used for that length and not any width not even more than a shadow."
I mean, how can one read that and still try to make conventional realistic "sense" of those sentences?
Gertrude Stein's publisher, the poet Donald Evans, nailed the book brilliantly:
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Susan Feniger's Street Food's Romanian Sweet and Sour Eggplant
Towards the end of the summer, eggplant tends to get the brunt of my vegetable exhaustion. By the time I reach for it, it will have been languishing in the crisper drawer until a bit too shriveled to eat in any way not roasted and pureed. So when I saw a new style of eggplant recipe in Susan Feniger's Street Food, I jumped on it.
Feniger's recipe is an interpretation of Eastern European eggplant salad made bold with a stewed tomatoes, apple cider vinegar, and a generous scoop of brown sugar. The eggplant is salted and then coated in a bright parsley-scallion pesto before being fried in copious amounts of oil. After it has been reduced to a silky, rich version of its former self, the eggplant spends a quick 10 minutes stewing with the tomatoes, sugar, and vinegar. It may not be the sexiest eggplant dish imaginable, but the final salad is certainly a unique take on the aubergine.
Reprinted with permission from Susan Feniger's Street Food by Susan Feniger. Copyright 2012. Published by Clarkston Potter. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
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- Yield:serves 4 to 6
- Active time: 1 hour
- Total time:1 1/2 hours
- 2 large eggplants (about 2 pounds)
- 3 tablespoons plus 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 10 cloves garlic, peeled
- 2 bunches scallions, white and green parts, roughly chopped
- 1/2 bunch fresh Italian parsley leaves and small stems, roughly chopped (1/4 cup)
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- Canola oil
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, drained and roughly chopped
- 3/4 cup cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
Cut off and discard both ends of each eggplant, and cut them lengthwise into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Lay the slices out on a baking sheet, and sprinkle both sides with the 3 tablespoons salt. Set aside for 20 minutes so that the salt will draw out some of the water from the eggplant. Then pat the eggplant dry with a dish towel.
Put the olive oil, garlic, scallions, parsley, cayenne, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt in a food processor, and puree until a smooth paste forms (it will resemble pesto). Spread liberally all over both sides of the eggplant slices.
In a large sauté pan set over medium-high heat, heat 2 tablespoons canola oil. Add enough eggplant slices to cover the bottom of the pan, and cook until they are browned on both sides and cooked through, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Transfer the eggplant to a platter or plate. Repeat this process with the remaining eggplant slices, adding 2 tablespoons oil for each batch. Cut the cooked eggplant into 1-inch-wide strips.
In a saucepan set over medium heat, combine the tomatoes, vinegar, and brown sugar. Stew for 12 minutes or until the tomatoes begin breaking down. Add the eggplant strips and stir together. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 8 to 10 minutes, until most of the liquid has been cooked off. Remove from the heat and serve, or chill. This dish may be served warm or cold.
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Weekend Cat Blogging
I've caught a stomach bug of some sorts, and all I've been eating today is buttered toast with the crusts cot off, scrambled eggs and Coke with the bubbles stirred out. I feel like complete crap, actually.
So. I can't even bear to think about food, definitely not blog about it, so instead, enjoy a photo of Ywette, sleeping contendedly.
6 comments:
- Greg said...
Oh dear, I hope you feel better soon.
- January 26, 2008 11:48 PM
- Lotta K said...
Poor Anne! Did you ever try flat ginger ale? Ginger cures pretty much everything! Feel better!
- January 27, 2008 2:48 AM
- Anna Banana said...
Sending healing thoughts from a loyal reader. My mom (from Ohio, US) always told me that when your stomach is off, eat what appeals to you even if it isn't what is generally thought to work. Me? I go for the BRAT diet: broth, rice, applesauce, tea (or is it toast?)
- January 27, 2008 5:09 AM
- Isle Dance said...
Feel better soon. Beautiful photo!
- January 27, 2008 11:45 AM
- annamaria said...
Usch stackars dig! Du får mysa med dina kissar idag i stället för att bry dig om mat. Krya på dig!
- January 27, 2008 12:55 PM
- Dagmar - A Cat in the Kitchen said...
I hope you'll get well soon!
- January 27, 2008 2:11 PM
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-serie go on hiatus. Back summer 2016-when she will resume, rythm will be no monthly (like last 6 month) but irregular (like before)
I don't really care for a new anime if im being honest. I will wait for a more detailed information about all of this, before forming my opinion, but my initial reaction is not the greatest.
I like that they're finally going to adapt Black Swordsman
Sad to see it go on hiatus, but I really hope we get to see the Black Swordsman arc animated!
I hate when one of the only thing that I guessed is coming true :http://www.skullknight.net/forum/index.php?topic=14709.msg235451#msg235451 Oh well we still have this one for Christmas at least. Hopefully for us, when it'll resume, the breaks won't be to inconsistent.
This time though i just can't wrap my hand around why Miura would need such a long break again, but i guess we will see in Summer then.
Nonetheless, i will just eagerly look forward to the new episode and enjoy each and every panel of it, while also waiting for the new volume release
And we have enough material for a volume if I'm not wrong, right?
We do.
We're on the damn island. I was hoping we'd get to somewhere important.
I'm unmoved by the hiatus. Call it thick skin developed over years.
Tell me about it. Six months? I can do that standing on my head.
Tell me about it. Six months? I can do that standing on my head. I frankly could use a little breather from this monthly schedule; it's been like a rollercoaster.
Yeah, like I said many times, I'm pretty much use to waiting for series and books to come out, so it won't be a fatal hiatus for me.
-new anime in 2016. 1st teaser will be out in Comike (29-31 december)-serie go on hiatus. Back summer 2016-when she will resume, rythm will be no monthly (like last 6 month) but irregular (like before)
Goddamn, I'm tired of these hiatuses and I have been a Berserk fan for almost a year. I can't imagine how most of you here continue to read this manga and keep such interest in it considering how long you have read it. I don't know, If I am capable of doing that.
Also, thank you for allowing me onto this forum. I've been a lurker for two years now but I figured since I'm finally with the means to begin (slowly) collecting the material legally that it was time to sign up with the cool kids.


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TICONDEROGA - Will one of your New Year's resolutions be to get more exercise?
If so, the LaChute Road Runners Club of Ticonderoga can help.
The club is planning its eighth annual Resolution Run Jan. 1, 2009.
The event will include a five-kilometer (3.1 miles) run and a four-kilometer (2.5 miles) walk.
Both events will begin and end at the Community Building on Montcalm Street at 11 a.m.
The course follows Lake Champlain Avenue to Water Street to Lake George Avenue back to Montcalm Street.
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