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Philadelphia freedom
Philadelphia shook loose of its rust-belt image to make 2004 headlines for its visionary wireless broadband network. "Municipal WiFi"—using free, unlicensed airwaves and cheap, off-the-shelf radios—would cost taxpayers nothing. Private companies, given exclusive rights and specific social obligations, would hang those radios from street lights, linking local citizens to the Internet via high-speed connections. Presto! Government solves the digital divide.
The broadband duopoly—cable modems vs. telcos' DSL—had met its match. Mayor John Street triumphantly announced that "the initiative will turn Philadelphia into the nation's largest WiFi hotspot and help improve education, bridge the digital divide, enhance neighborhood development, and reduce the costs of government."
The innovation was hailed as "world changing" by public interest advocates who trumpeted "WiFi for the people." Venture capitalists dusted off their dot.com PowerPoint slides, showing the enormous opportunity. "Ultimately, it all boils down to disruptive economics," touted (PDF) one VC at a 2005 trade show. "The history of technology shows that Cheap and Good Enough always wins over expensive and purpose-built."
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
And so city fathers everywhere said, as a fawning Washington Monthly article was titled, "let there be WiFi." San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, proclaiming broadband access "a fundamental right," majestically decreed, "We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless Internet service." Los Angeles Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa boasted that LA's sprawl would be blanketed: "we are dedicating ourselves to the idea that universal access to technology makes our entire economy stronger."
New York City, New Orleans, Portland, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, Washington D.C., Boston all moved to seed wireless clouds. Earthlink, Google, Microsoft, Intel, and a gaggle of corporate boosters joined the crusade. By Summer 2006, a law review article pronounced the issue decided: "Citywide WiFi as a public service is no longer a bureaucratic pipe dream, but has the backing of America's technological titans."
Today the muni WiFi experiment is a shambles. The Philadelphia system was abandoned by Earthlink in June, and sold for scrap. It never performed as promised, and served fewer than 6,000 subscribers out of a population of 1.6 million. It had promised to serve tens of thousands of low-income households; the final tally of such users: 902. Those who did sign-up for $6.95 per month found slow speeds and spotty coverage. Alas, even tech-savvy early adopters eager to sip lattés while browsing via broadband were disappointed. On some occasion, it is possible that a connection strong enough to Google search results for "digital divide" was maintained, but that was likely as close as Philadelphia's vaunted network got to impacting it.
Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago—all have gone bust. New York City, early on the bandwagon, got bogged down in politics, and now has simply given up. "We don't think municipal WiFi will succeed," offers a city official.
A WiFi repeater sitting on a streetlight
Fueled by the double helix of technological bravado and political hype, the war cry for muni WiFi was "market failure." The for-profit sector had overlooked a great opportunity to create a new broadband platform. Literally thousands of wireless Internet Service Providers exist, but evidenced scarcely a "wISP" of interest—absent a special deal with City Hall—in city-wide deployments. That might have been a clue. Markets had figured out that what links your desktop in the den to your notebook down the hall may not scale. Particularly in unlicensed frequencies, where government-set power limits are tight, and competing users impinge.
Problems engulfed deployments. Portland, Oregon residents were stunned when the ballyhooed network powered up, offering wireless Internet links only in select areas—outdoors. Citizens were offered $170 radios to boost reception inside, but not only did performance remain spotty, the price tag obliterated the "free broadband" promise. The network attracted little use, and has been abandoned by the contractor, which stuck Portland taxpayers with a $60,000 wireless node removal bill.
Tech-centric San Francisco eagerly plunged into muni WiFi. Google and its ISP partner, Earthlink, offered to develop and operate the network, promising free access. For higher speeds it would charge customers, and it would generate income from ads. San Francisco was willing to grant the firms exclusive use of city facilities. But then a "tide of requests" rolled in, according to Google, exactions demanded by the City. These included a cut of revenues and free computers for the needy. Google and Earthlink walked.


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keep (one's) shirt on(redirected from keep somebody's shirt on)
keep (one's) shirt on
To remain calm and wait for something. Typically used as an imperative in the phrase "keep your shirt on." Keep your shirt on, dude, the pizza will be here soon enough. It would have gone smoothly if Larry had been able to keep his shirt on instead of trying to get in early.
keep one's shirt onand keep one's pants on
Fig. to be patient. Wait a minute! Keep your shirt on! Keep your pants on! I'll be with you in a minute.
Keep your shirt on!and Keep your pants on!
Inf. Just wait a minute! I'll be right with you. Keep your shirt on! Keep your pants on! You're next.
keep one's shirt on
Stay calm, be patient; not give way to temper or excitement. For example, Keep your shirt on, Bob, they'll be here in time for the wedding. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]
keep your shirt onBRITISH, AMERICAN, INFORMAL or
keep your pants onmainly AMERICAN, INFORMAL
If someone tells you to keep your shirt on or keep your pants on, they are telling you to calm down and not be angry or impatient. The doorbell rang. Helen told the caller to keep his shirt on — angry because she felt the ringing had been excessive. Note: This expression is often used to suggest that a person's anger or impatience is not reasonable. Compare with keep your hair on.
keep your shirt ondon't lose your temper; stay calm. informal
Keep your shirt on!and Keep your pants on!
exclam. Just wait a minute!; Don't be in a rush. (Possibly said as if to avoid a fight, for which one removes one's shirt. That is, Let's not rush into a big argument or fight; wait a minute. The expressions are old and in very wide use, too wide to suggest a reference to sexual urgency.) I'll be right with you. Keep your shirt on! We'll be there in a minute! Keep your pants on!
keep (one's) shirt onSlang
To remain calm or patient: The plane doesn't land for another hour, so keep your shirt on.

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Dino Explorer at Legoland Discovery Center
September 3, 2018
An event every day that begins at 12:00am, repeating until December 31, 2018
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Get ready to build, learn, laugh, and become a true DINO EXPLORER at LEGOLAND Discovery Center Arizona, a JURASSIC-sized adventure is sure to put a smile on your face! This brand new exhibit features a wide range of Dino activities and playful learning. Head to the Jurassic build tables to construct your own LEGO dinosaur. Follow the instructions to build a Tyrannosaurus Rex or let your creativity run wild and make your own LEGO creation. Get your picture taken with the HUGE LEGO T-Rex!


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Hi, y'all. Bingo Beagle here. This is the first of what I hope will be many more columns I will share with Carl. Last week I promised I would report on these egg-laying rabbits that were to appear Saturday night. I didn't believe that such animals existed and decided to do my own research.
I can now state with absolute certainty that there are no egg-laying rabbits. Read on for the proof of this categorical statement. Saturday evening I positioned myself by the back doors so that I could survey the entire backyard toward the adjacent woods. It was kind of interesting to see what's going on outdoors after dark. First came a huge armadillo rooting for grubs. Then a herd of deer, or five large deer, came over from the neighbors' yard and grazed for a while. Under normal circumstances I would have raised hell and bugled loudly. This time I just kept quiet. I was after egg-laying rabbits, not deer. After all, I had also offered any rabbit laying an egg and allowing me to take a picture free reign for one day to refresh itself on our green tender plants. Let me give you an example how serious I was about all of this. I even borrowed Carl's camera from his desk to be ready for a picture session with that egg-laying rabbit. Deer, but not just deer, would be welcome in the picture.
Even though all through the night plenty of rabbits traversed the yard, stopped and nibbled on tasty plants not a one laid any eggs or even carried any gaily colored ones to hide for children to find.
As dawn approached I finally got an explanation. I saw adults coming out of their houses with baskets of colored eggs and candy. They walked all over the yard and hid the goodies amongst the flowers and other plants. A short while later children raced into the yards obviously looking for eggs and candy. Every time they found something they squealed with delight, running back to the waiting adults to show off the treasures they had found. But not a single rabbit was involved in any of this. In a way I was disappointed; on the other hand (paw) it proved I was right. It takes a beagle to smell the truth.
All right, Bingo, enough bragging about how great you are. Now it is my turn to contribute. To my readers, call the Vox about this split format. My portion will concern itself with Sun City most of the time.
First, allow me to say: I love it here. Sun City is a wonderful place to live and our neighbors have been absolutely the most helpful people anyone could have during these trying times since my stroke and The Beloved's brain surgery. Although these two incidents are not related, it is almost impossible to take care of your household when both members are virtually out of action.
The Beloved and I thank all of you who have helped us in putting our lives back together. Don't quit now. We are getting there, but we haven't really arrived yet. We will continue to appreciate any help you can give.
While the people here have been wonderful, I will keep my eye on the community and let you know what Pulte and the board they control are up to.


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Major in Biology
The biology department seeks to inspire and enable students to grow in their scientific understanding. Our courses and curriculum present a dynamic approach to scientific investigation: posing problems for study, proposing and probing hypotheses, and persuading peers. Using evolution as the unifying theme of biology, we emphasize current biological methods and rigorous conceptual analyses at all scales of organization, from molecules to cells to organisms to ecological communities. We encourage biology majors to interact extensively with professors and with each other, and we use a variety of learning activities to illustrate the tools of the trade, to reinforce concepts, and to apply problem-solving techniques. We prepare our students to think critically about important biological issues and to apply their informed analyses as citizens and professionals.
Biology news
Send news items to email@example.com. Alums-please include your major and graduation year. Others-please include information about your connection to the department. Note: EEBB=Ecology, Evolution and Behavioral Biology major; EBIO=Environmental Biology major; MCIB=Molecular, Integrative, and Cellular Biology major; BIOL=Biology major; and CMB=Cellular and Molecular Biology. If you would like other news, you may also join the Facebook group called "Beloit College Biology Department."
Wolfe Wagman '82BIOL, PhD, a research assistant with the Marine Reserve Program, just published a paper describing a new species of rockfish. Here is the link.http://fishbull.noaa.gov/1134/
Matt Buechler '06MCIB recently published a paper: Buechler, M. B., L. P. Newman, B. H. Chohan, A. Njoroge, D. Wamalwa, and C. Farquhar. 2015. T cell anergy and activation are associated with suboptimal humoral responses to measles revaccination in HIV-infected children on anti-retroviral therapy in Nairobi, Kenya. Clinical and Experimental Immunology. doi:10.1111/cei.12619.
David Gordon, Beloit alum and Biology/Chemistry stockroom manager just received the Behling Prize this year. This prize honors Bill Behling for his many years as Beloit's "Food Dude" and recognizes recipients for going "beyond call of duty by spreading good humor and good will to the campus community." David is pictured here with some of the students who have worked with him. Congratulations David!
Caitlin McDonough '12MCIB and Aaron Joiner '12MCIB received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships! Caitlin is a graduate student in evolutionary biology at the Syracuse University and Aaron is a graduate student in biochemistry and molecular, and cell biology at Cornell University.
Sasha Wright '05EBIO has published a paper on the effect of flooding and diversity on ecosystem stability: Wright, A. J., A. Ebeling, H. de Kroon, C. Roscher, A. Weigelt, N. Buchmann, T. Buchmann, C. Fischer, N. Hacker, A. Hildebrandt, S. Leimer, L. Mommer, Y. Oelman, S. Scheu, K. Steinauer, T. Strecker, W. Weisser, W. Wilcke, and N. Eisenhauer. 2015. Flooding disturbances increase resource availability and productivity but reduce stability in diverse plant communities. Nature. 6:6092-6098. doi:DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7092.
Nicole Krauss '11EEBB won a Boeing Fellowship to support her studies of food availability and egg quality in a migratory passerine, the black-throated blue warbler. She is a PhD student at the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University.
Caitlin McDonough '12MCIB has published a paper on sperm release in toads: McDonough, C. E., M. W. Martin, C. K. Vance, J. A. Cole, and A. J. Kouba. 2015. Frequency of exogenous hormone therapy impacts spermiation in male Fowler's toad (Bufo fowleri). Reproduction, Fertility and Development. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/RD14214. Caitlin is currently a graduate student at Syracuse University.
Alex Wolf '06EEBB has published a paper on horned lizards: Wolf, A. J., E. C Hellgren, E. M. Schauber, V. III Bogosian, R. T. Kazmaier, D. C. III Ruthven, and R. W. Moody. 2014. Variation in vital-rate sensitivity between populations of Texas horned lizards. Population Ecology 56:619-631.
Beloit College Students Kick-Start Summer Reading Program at the Beloit Public Library
On Saturday, June 14, Beloit College summer research students and faculty collaborated with staff from Kerry to present "Science Exploration!" at the Beloit Public Library. Beloit College and Kerry volunteers presented hands-on science activities that included dissecting sheep brains, exploring chemical reactions with glow sticks, and programming a robot dog for ~150 community members. This event was the kickoff to the Beloit Public Library summer reading program, "Fizz, Boom, Read," which focuses on the fun of science.
Professor Katie Johnson CHEM '02 has won the New Investigator Award from the Teaching Section of the American Physiological Society for 2014!!!
Joe Skurski '13MCIB is has accepted a position as a formulation specialist with Cellular Dynamics International in Madison, Wisconsin.
Aria Walsh-Felz '11EEBB will be entering a joint Master in Public Health and MA in Applied Anthropology, Biocultural Medical Anthropology, program at the University of South Florida in the fall.
Emily Grman '03EEBB has just accepted a faculty position in the Biology Department at Eastern Michigan University.
Enya Qing '08CMB is a first-year graduate student at Loyola University in Biomedical Sciences: Microbiology and Immunology.
Best grasshopper photo by Jake Lackovic and Micah Layman in BIOL 111.01: Zoology in spring 2014.
Best grasshopper photo by Steven McAfee and Jason Brenner in BIOL 111.02: Zoology in spring 2014.
The Biology Department joins the friends and families of Justine Ringberg '13MCIB and Raquel Nuñez '13PSYCH in mourning their deaths in a car accident on January 14, 2014. Justine was a Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biology major who enjoyed her biological studies and TAed Emerging Diseases. Raquel was a Psychology major who took several Biology courses. Both Justine and Raquel were important members of our community. They were honored at a memorial service on campus in late January.
Justine Ringberg and Raquel Nuñez at their graduation ceremony.
Professor Ken Yasukawa edited a three volume series, Animal Behavior: How and Why Animals Do the Things They Do, ABC-CLIO Praeger, 2014.
Rebecca Brooks Fabish '93BIOL completed a Masters in the Art of Teaching and Leadership (MATL) from Saint Xavier University in December 2013. She is currently teaching 7th grade Biology at Central Intermediate School in Washington, IL.
Josh Davendonis '10EEBB completed a Master of Arts in Teaching at Cornell University and teaches 7th grade life science at North Broward Preparatory School in Coconut Creek, Florida (Ft. Lauderdale area.) At North Broward, he sponsors the middle school Ecology Club which oversees recycling on campus, participates in bird watching at local nature preserves, and coaches middle distance and distance track.
Caitlin Lill '08EEBB authored two afterword chapters in Teaching the Museum: Careers in Museum Education, edited by Leah Melber, published by American Alliance of Museums Press. Caitlin is the Environmental Office Manager for the Urbana Park District in Urbanna, IL.
Alex Wolf '06EEBB recently published a paper: Wolf, A. J., E. C. Hellgren, V. Bogosian, III, and R. W. Moody. 2013. Effects of habitat disturbance on Texas horned lizards: An urban case study. Herpetologica 69:265-281. Alex works in the Resource Science Division of the Missouri Department of Conservation.
John Jungck (Bio faculty 1980-2012) is now a Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of Interdisciplinary Science Learning Laboratories at the University of Delaware.
Marc Roy (Bio faculty 1989-2002) is Provost at Albion College in Baltimore, MD. He chairs the Board of Directors of the American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD). In January 2014, he published "Preparing for a Successful Career in Academic Leadership: Understanding Your Role," a chapter in The Resource Handbook for Academic Deans, 3rd edition.
Professor Marion Fass reviewed Spillover: Animal Infections and the next Human Pandemic by David Quammen in a recent issue of JMBE: Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education, Volume 14, Issue 1. The review is available from JMBE.
How to Teach Quantitative Literacy, an article about the Beloit Biometrics course and Professor Ken Yasukawa appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of the Beloit College Magazine.
Professor Marion Fass received the 2012 William E. Bennett Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Citizen Science from the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement. Marion appears in the photo with Dr. Bennett.
Two groups of Beloit College Physiology students won the American Physiological Society's 2011 Phantastic Physiology Voyage. Videos were made by students in Professor Katie Johnson's Human Anatomy and Physiology course: "Form Follows Function" video contest:
- 1st Place: Eye Girl
- Viewers' Choice: Swimming the Butterfly Stroke


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Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
I recently spoke to a woman who has "myeloma". She claims that she gets tumors if she breaks bones or fractures parts of her body. She was calling the tumor a "bone tumor." How is this different from an osteosarcoma?
Ken Blank, MD and John Han-Chih Chang, MD, OncoLink Editorial Assistants respond:
Thank you for your question.
Myeloma (also called multiple myeloma) is a completely different cancer from osteosarcoma. Neither of these cancers are caused by broken bone and, as with almost all cancers, the cause is a combination of genetics and environment. However, it is not uncommon for people with these cancers to experience broken bones as the cancer weakens the bone making it prone to fracture.
"Cancer of the bone" is an oft used and misunderstood term. When cancer is in a bone it can be of many types. For example, breast and prostate cancer can spread to the bones. When a cancer has spread from its point of origin-such as a beast cancer spreading to the bone- it is said to have metastasized.
Myeloma and osteosarcoma are two forms of cancer that arise in the bone.Myeloma is a cancer of the blood cells (which are produced in the bonemarrow) and osteosarcoma is a cancer which originates from bone cells called osteoblasts. However, they are very different tumors with different prognosis and treatments.
For more information on these cancers please a similar question by asked by another OncoLink reader entitled Bone cancer
Ken Blank, MD
John Han-Chih Chang, MD
Editorial Assistants for OncoLink


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Projecting 8-3/4", it has a 5-1/8" dia. tapered cup, with a 3-3/4" interior root diameter.
The mounting bracket swivels less than 180°, having integral stops to prevent the cup from striking the wall.
Overall height is 4-5/8". All cast steel with linished and polished highlights.
Requires two #10 mounting screws (not included).


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moju project necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 197 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
We sell t-shirts that feed an orphan for a month. We are looking for a hip t-shirt design that features our brand name. Please thoroughly read our brief for all the details. There will be a definite winner! Long-term opportunities likely! Multiple winners very likely too! Submissions will be checked daily at 9:30am and 7:30pm EST.
MOJUPROJECT.com WILL LAUNCH SEPTEMBER 1ST :)
Now offering $25-$50 USD for runner-ups!
Hey Everyone,
Check out this site: http://secure.invisiblechildren.com…fashionCat
This is an organization called Invisible Children. One of their t-shirts is a gun/camera (depending on how you look at it) but it is cool because it represents what they are all about.
I am hoping that this might inspire some new design ideas. The moju project is about making an impact in the world. It is about feeding starving kids. I would LOVE to see some designs that have a special meaning to it. Try creating a design that represents HOPE or UNITY or anything else we stand for without having to spell it out.
We are still early in the competition so I hope this is helpful to our current designers and those interested in submitting!!!!
Gerrid & Jessica
moju project
The Moju Project is a site that
is designed to offer you the coolest t-shirts that will make a
difference in the world. Every t-shirt we sell will feed an orphan for
a month in Africa.
Our t-shirts represent hope. By purchasing a t-shirt at the MojuProject.com,
you're standing up and using your voice. You're speaking up for those
who can't speak for themselves. You're leading the way for thousands
of people to find hope when situations appear to be hopeless.
"Buy a Shirt...Save a Life"
- Modern/Hip Clothing- cool for teenagers and young adults
- Possibly incorporate the cool surf/skate look:- http://www.hurley.com/ms/mens/fall08//
- http://www.quiksilver.com/home/index.jsp
- http://www.billabong.com- Maybe something with wings
- Can be just the brand name or have images with it
- Colors should be based off of our website...black/ white/ charcoal/ blue/ purple/ pink
- The back of every shirt will read "This t-shirt fed an orphan for 1 month
- Brand name should be lower-case "moju project"
- (optional) - You can include our slogan "fashioned to save the world"We are looking for unique and creative ideas!
You can check out our web design here - http://smithseo.com/moju1.html
- Vector Art
- Overuse of bright colors- use bright colors to accent/ compliment only


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The age-old wrestling rivalry between the Monticello Buckaroos and the San Juan Broncos came to Monticello on December 19, as the schools took to the mat for their pre-Christmas dual.
The mat, as it happens, was brand new, having been purchased through a generous donation from Encana Oil and Gas.
Before the match began, Coaches Kent Adair and Ronnie Musselman and Principal Scott Shakespeare made a presentation to Encana representative Steve Garcia. The Bucks broke in the mat with a win, defeating the Broncos 47-27.
Buckaroo Rhett Adair got to be the first to wrestle on the new mat. The starting weight was selected randomly by San Juan Coach JJ Squires. It was ironic, and seemed fitting, that he selected Adair's weight, since it was his brother Todd, an Encana employee, who sponsored the request for the donation.
Despite Adair's best efforts, San Juan got the win at 171 pounds. Adair faced off against Joseph Begaye. Begaye got the early takedown and earned an escape in the second period, but Adair fought hard and did not allow Begaye to turn him, but was unable to put points on the board and lost 3-1.
Tyrel Shupe came out strong at 189 against Jesse Grover. Shupe traded points with Grover in the first, but was put on his back in the second, giving Grover a four point lead. Shupe picked up two points from penalties and a reversal to tie the match going into the third. In the final period, Shupe turned Grover and earned the pin.
At 215, Trevor Coppin took on Marcus Conway. Conway got the early takedown, but Coppin kept his wits about him and rolled through to take the top spot. Coppin brought the crowd to their feet with the fall, just over a minute into the match.
Ronald "Tazz" Robinson took the mat at heavyweight for the Bucks, but his opponent, Kyle Shumway got the early lead, and put Tazz on his back for a San Juan pin.
David Boyle was up next at 103 against Ty Hostler. The two fought hard, but no points went on the board until the third period, when Hosler turned Boyle for a San Juan pin.
The Bucks picked up forfeits at 112 and 119, before JJ Grover defeated Buckaroo Quanah Lee after a hard fought match.
Adam Martinez for MHS and Kyson Shumway for the Broncos faced off at 130 pounds, where Shumway took an early lead and Martinez, who despite his efforts could not overcome the deficit, lost the match 8-6.
With the team score tied at 24, the Buckaroos took control of the lead with three consecutive wins.
Aaron Butler played a friendly game of cat and mouse with Bronco Randy Bowers at 135 pounds. Butler worked to put seven take downs on the board in the match, and put Bowers on his back twice before winning by technical fall, 21-5.
Buckaroo Chase Randall wasted no time putting Cameron Arthur on his back. Randall worked for the pin and finally got the slap of the mat with 14 seconds left on the clock in the first period.
James Musselman put the last win on the board for the Bucks. Musselman took the early lead, and had Trey McDonald on his back in the first period, when time ran out. In the second, McDonald was able to score a reversal, but it was not enough, as Musselman reversed immediately and put McDonald on his back for the Buckaroo pin.
Nolan Black wrapped things up for the Bucks, taking on San Juan's Oliver Parker. San Juan got the early takedown, but was unable to hold Black.
After one period, Parker led 4-1. In the second, Parker came from the bottom to score a reversal, but Black picked up a penalty point and a reversal of his own to come within two.
Parker then put Black on his back for five quick points, but Nolan fought hard to avoid the pin. In the third period, down 11-4, Black kept fighting, putting another reversal on the board, but in the end Parker got the 13-6 win in a very hard fought match.
The Bucks are off for the holiday but will be back in action January 5 when they travel to the Pagosa Springs Tournament.
Next dual action will be January 9 when the Bucks travel to Cortez.


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6 Days San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon & Yosemite National Park
Departure: Every Monday,Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday (Mar - Oct)
Day 1: Hometown - San Francisco City Tour
Airport (SFO) transfer in, Discover America's most picturesque and culturally diverse city – San Francisco. Highlights include: Civic Center, Twin Peaks, Golden Gate Park, Golden Gate Bridge, Palace of Fine Arts, Fisherman's Wharf, Market Street and Chinatown.
** Please arrange the arrival time in San Francisco (SFO) airport before 11am, for all customers joining the SF City Tour at the same day. Any arrival after 11am, the city tour will be considered voluntary forfeit and no refunds will be given.
Hotel: Red Roof Inn SFO or similar
Day 2: San Francisco - Los Angeles
Transfer to the largest metropolitan area in California, Los Angeles. Stop by the historical landmarks of Hollywood, as well as Hollywood Blvd., Chinese Theater and the Dolby Theater complex (which is now the permanent home for the Oscars) and the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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Suicidal patients are an everyday part of life in the typical American ER. For a variety of reasons, the vast majority of the "suicide attempts" are not particularly serious, by which I mean that the methods most commonly seen are not terribly lethal, and the patients attempting usually didn't actually want to die. For example, consider a patient who impulsively grabs a knife and makes a few superficial cuts in his or her wrist while arguing with their spouse, who then dutifully calls 911, or one who downs a whole bottle of prozac and then immediately calls a friend to tell them what they have done. These are the "suicide attempts" we routinely care for.
These patients are often a huge pain in the ass. They are usually intoxicated, often combative and agitated, may require extensive workups to ensure that no actual life threats exist, and wind up spending hours and hours in the ER, weeping and wailing, puking charcoal all over and annoying staff with their dramatic and manipulative behavior. Occasionally a non-serious gesture winds up being more dangerous than the patient intended. ("You mean tylenol is dangerous?") Many a time an irritated nurse has approached me and grimly suggested that we publish an educational flier titled "Suicide: getting it right the first time."
If this makes it sound like we don't take suicide attempts awfully seriously, then you're right. Mostly it's due to the preponderance of minor suicidal gestures over real attempts. Don't think we're not professional about it -- we know how to rule out the serious threats and make sure that a safe disposition is accomplished. But we are not overly impressed with the low-level stuff we usually see. I think the relative absence of "serious" attempts in the ER may be due to the fact that the numerical incidence of real suicidality is low, compared to the gestures, and the selection bias that those people who really do want to end it all tend not to make it in to the ER.
They are called "completers," in the jargon, as they "complete" their suicide attempt. When a would-be completer comes into the ER, it changes the whole tone of the evening. A pall settles over the department; the place is unusually quiet and staff uncommonly grave. This guy really meant it. It's a weird feeling.
Like the guy I saw the other day. A classic completer: middle-aged male, rather heavy drinker, recently lost his job and losing his marriage. His wife came home to find him in the garage with the engine running, unconscious, with an empty vodka bottle and pill bottles in his lap. Only she came home earlier than he expected.
He came in intubated with a carboxyhemoglobin level greater than 40%, which means that 40% of his red blood cells were saturated with carbon monoxide and incapable of carrying oxygen. This starved his brain of oxygen and resulted in a loss of consciousness, and would have progressed to death if not interrupted. The outcome in this case was good; we "dove" him in a hyperbaric chamber. Oxygen in higher-than-atmospheric concentrations can rapidly displace CO from the blood, allowing for full or near-full recovery if brain damage has not already occurred. This individual had a short stay in the ICU and was discharged to a voluntary psychiatric hospitalization.
This was an uncommon case with a reasonably happy result; many serious-but-unsuccessful suicide attempts wind up causing devastating consequences, especially when the method is violent: handgun, hanging, and certain poisonings can cause permanent brain damage, spinal cord injuries, or other organ failures. It's all very sad. I probably feel more empathy for these folks and their families than I do for almost any other patient. How terrible must their perceived suffering have been to drive them to actually pull that trigger?
I am glad we don't see them too often, because it's a hard thing to stare in the face:
This guy really meant it.
17 March 2008
Suicidal patients are an everyday part of life in the typical American ER. For a variety of reasons, the vast majority of the "suicide attempts" are not particularly serious, by which I mean that the methods most commonly seen are not terribly lethal, and the patients attempting usually didn't actually want to die. For example, consider a patient who impulsively grabs a knife and makes a few superficial cuts in his or her wrist while arguing with their spouse, who then dutifully calls 911, or one who downs a whole bottle of prozac and then immediately calls a friend to tell them what they have done. These are the "suicide attempts" we routinely care for.
Posted by shadowfax at 10:29 PM
41 comments:
Nice post on a truly difficult situation.ReplyDelete
It sounds like that patient is getting some help now. He was one of the lucky ones.ReplyDelete
As for the gestures, TV shows don't help, what with giving the impression that a few slashes on the wrist can cause irreversible and fatal exsanguination within minutes, but gunshots to the center of the chest are well tolerated.
- Anonymous3/18/2008 10:52 AM
Your "completer" patient will have subtle permanent brain injury.ReplyDelete
My worst: a young husband/father of twin toddlers attempts three consecutive days. First day - pills. Second day - pills. Third day - GSW to the head with demise. The burden on his wife must have been unbearable.
I had a weird perspective. I was a small town family doc, who occasionally covered our local ER but was also the County coroner. I know, too many hats. Maybe that's why I'm no longer doing it...Anyway,I worked to educate the local EMS, especially the volunteer locals about responses. You mentioned the pall in the ER when one comes in. The EMS are conflicted about "saving" someone who wanted out. I acknowledged that that was a normal feeling, but a resusctation on a small caliber GSW to the head is a donor. Wonderful save. For somebody.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/18/2008 6:49 PM
After 6 years in medicine I think the worst one I can recall was a young girl... 15 maybe? That was an "involuntary completer."ReplyDelete
You mentioned it already. She OD'd on Tylenol. I saw her in the ICU a time or two, her liver failed. Her family and friends came to visit her and you realized that she didn't intend for things to go this way. She died shortly thereafter. I just remember the look of her friends & family. Bummer.
- Anonymous3/18/2008 8:45 PM
No need to publish an educational flier titled "Suicide: getting it right the first time." Those already exist and aren't too hard to find on the Internet.ReplyDelete
I read them and so far every time concluded it was not worth the of-chance risk my attempt would fail and I would be ending up in the ER with fatal liver damage and die after a week of horrible pain.
Now I'm older and I know the bleak periods usually go away after some weeks/months.
- Anonymous3/18/2008 9:39 PM
Yeah. Almost killed myself when I was thirteen. Researched. Planned. Almost completed except my mother came home early & found me. Spent a week on a vent, seizures, all that fun stuff.ReplyDelete
I still have my struggles with mental illness, but I've definitely never felt suicidal again. I look back on how much I would have missed (highschool, marriage, college) had I carried out my plan...and am so grateful that I'm alive.
I was one of those almost-completers when i was 17. I took 60 tablets of extra strength Tylenol (30,000 g APAP). Looking back, (I'm 24 now), I don't think I ever truly wanted to die, but it was a very desperate cry for help. I had severe clinical depression at the time, to the point where I couldn't attend school regularly.ReplyDelete
Anyhow, the nurse in the ER was horribly rude to me--she said some awful things to me, and the things that she said made me wish that i hadn't been brought to the ER. She also seemed to be trying to find excuses to do unnecessarily painful/scary procedures on me--the resident and attending had to keep on telling her that the things she was wanting to do were unnecessary. She still ended up rupturing a vein by trying to start an IV with an 18 g needle in my hand-unfortunately for her, my blood spurted up in her face.
Anyway, I guess my point here was that even though most suicide attempts are not "genuine", the people who make them may very well be in genuine emotional pain. One has to have more than just a little wrong mentally to do this sort of thing, even if they are only doing it for attention. Just something for you and your staff to keep in mind when treating these patients. I understand the annoyance--after all the staff is having to divert attention away from the other emergencies. That said, I still remember the kindness of the ER and CCU docs that treated me--it was they who persuaded me that it was worth it to check myself into a psych hospital after being discharged.
Sorry for the long post.
I had a friend who killed herself with tylenol. She was a lab technician, and knew how long it would take for the damage to be irreversible. She took the pills, came to work that night, worked and seemed to be her usual calm, happy self, went home and went to bed. Her husband came home and found her comatose and brought her to the ER. She died in the ICU a few days later when her liver failed. Her suicide note (which she apparently had written afte getting home from work, before she went to bed) detailed how much tylenol she had taken and how long she had planned and researched to do this. So very sad.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/19/2008 6:46 AM
"But we are not overly impressed with the low-level stuff we usually see."ReplyDelete
Gosh, maybe people who are in emotional pain aren't looking to *impress* doctors or ERs with their attempts. What a horrible attitude to take.
Yes, I get the day-in, day-out life of the ER is often monotonous and can lead to the staff leaving their compassion and empathy at the door. But seriously, if you think a suicide attempt is boring and not in need of real intervention -- e.g., mental health intervention -- then you need to find yourself a new profession.
So sad to see your attitude here... And a perfect example of why mental health concerns remain stigmatized in America.
Re: "checking empathy at the door"ReplyDelete
That's not quite accurate. First, as I stipulated, I am a professional and do my very best to display empathy, real or feigned, to all my patients. But truth be told, I have only so much emotional energy to invest in patients -- you have to remain detached on some level -- and that gets parceled out to those who really need it.
A half-hearted dramatic gesture does not rank very high up on the scale, not in contrast with the real tragedies unfolding in the rest of the ER.
- Anonymous3/19/2008 9:06 AM
But the message you're sending to patients (yes, people can pick up when a person is feigning empathy pretty easily) is that they don't matter as much as the "real" tragedies taking place daily.ReplyDelete
Which is precisely why they're in the ER in the first place -- people don't care about them. You're just reinforcing that message by your saying, "You're not real or important enough for anything but the most minimal of care and attention. I save my real empathy for real attempts."
I mean, wow. That's just an amazing attitude to have toward people in serious emotional pain. Like somehow emotional pain that isn't serious enough to be successful in a suicide attempt isn't serious enough for the same level of care and treatment by the staff...
- Anonymous3/19/2008 2:59 PM
These "near-completers" take huge amounts of time and resources in the operating room environment: middle of the night x 8 hours of facial/skull debridement following self-inflicted shotgun blast. Many many hours of ENT/plastic/OMF and anesthesiology time for subsequent reconstructions. Only to be discharged home a couple of months later, where the completion event occurs "successfully". Truly sad all around.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/19/2008 3:31 PM
"I mean, wow. That's just an amazing attitude to have toward people in serious emotional pain."ReplyDelete
The problem being that many, many people who continue to make one parasuicidal gesture after another are in *chronic* emotional pain. Their life is one crisis after another for years. Some people thrive off of the attention and drama; some people simply don't know how to say "I'm in pain" without the accompanying tylenol OD. For whatever reason, it's emotionally and financially draining for those around them. And it never ends. No show of compassion (whether by friends/family or medical staff) is ever enough; because they're essentially searching for something to fill an emptiness that can't be filled with by-proxy love & support. It's always: *this* OD will be different, it'll really show them how much pain I'm in. This psych hospitalization will be different. If only people cared enough about me, then I could learn to love myself. But it's never enough.
I think what motivated me to change was when the reactions of my parents and friends quit being surprised. I'd do X stupid thing and it's like everyone expected that to happen. Everyone was resigned to the fact that I might accidentally manage to kill myself. My psych history went from family & friends rallying around me with balloons and gifts and support -- to being stuck in a psych hospital, in a gown, because no one would bring me any clothes.
When I quit expecting other people to fight for me, I learned to fight for myself.
- Anonymous3/19/2008 8:08 PM
Great post, Shadowfax.ReplyDelete
Trauma service can be very draining due to the patients who have been admitted for suicide attempts. These are usually the ones who "meant it."
My most memorable case was of a gentleman who had tried to stab himself. He'd done considerable damage to his chest and shoulder, and had needed significant intervention. He'd picked off part of his brachial plexus. We knew he was getting better when he realised (and got upset about the fact) that he could no longer move his thumb properly.
It was hard to know what to say to him at that point. Small wonder the psychiatrists hated to answer our calls.
As a psychologist and also the older sister of a depressed teenager who recently attempted suicide, I am angered by what I read. My brother stabbed himself several times. And as he lay bleeding in his car, decided that this was not right and called 911. Since he found a reason to live, should he have been treated like scum when he arrived at the emergency room? It seems to me that the general feeling is that he wasn't worthy of care. Thankfully the ER docs treated him differently. Every patient I see deserves compassion, especially those who are so depressed they feel there is no way to dull the pain short of death. Why not try to show a little care to someone rather than compounding their already depressed mood with treatment as someone "not worthy" of your time or empathy.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/20/2008 11:39 AM
The author demonstrates a willful ignorance about mental illness and effective treatment. There is no such thing as pretend empathy. Either one is genuinely empathic or is not. One can feign concern.ReplyDelete
In my view, the approach to patients which is described for what is described in the post as "noncompleters" is malpractice on the part of physicians and nurses.
Show me any evidence where the AMA, ANA and State Boards of Medicine and Nursing approve of that behavior.
Wow, just wow.
Well, doc, you have no idea what you're talking about. Any mental health professional can tell you that you have to take suicidal ideation seriously, especially when someone actually goes through some motions of self hurt. I've been suicidal most of my life. I told my therapist that I thought it was such a waste that I'd inconvenienced all these people--from policemen to medical personnel to co-workers--and then not actually gone through with the suicide. He said, "Didn't you actually read that book you recommended to me?" [It's Out of the Nightmare by David Conrad] 95% of all suicide threats don't end in suicide. 95%. That doesn't mean that in 4 years, when my kids are finally out of high school, I won't implement my carefully thought-out plan. It means that people listened; they intervened; they saved me, even though I don't want to be here. That's probably benefited my kids, who would have been traumatized by my suicide. Your attitude reminds me of the articles I read at the turn of the century about a young man who was found in the basement of a pharmacy. When the "chemist" asked him what he was doing, he said, "I'm looking for something to kill myself with." The chemist replied, "You won't find it here" and chased him away. The young man later ran into a policeman who said, "What's wrong with you?!" and the young man said, "I'm just going down to the river to kill myself." The policeman told him to go on, and the newspaper article reported that no one had heard from him since. Intervention saves lives. You're an intervener. It's your job. Sorry to hear that you think you can judge the actual intentions of the suicidal.ReplyDelete
Well, that kicked over an anthill, didn't it?ReplyDelete
I can assert that I am well able to feign empathy without patients detecting falsity. Maybe you want to quibble whether I am in fact feigning sympathy, empathy, compassion, interest, or simple courtesy. The semantics of that debate do not interest me.
What I do is this: I listen to the patient's story, ask open ended questions followed by more probing questions, and perform whatever examinations may be needed. I am polite and respectful and try to make the patient feel that I listened to what he or she had to say, and that I cared. Then I explain the process to them: medical screening and treatment, followed by mental health evaluation (which is not performed primarily by me, but a psychologist).
What I do not do is allow them to weep on my shoulder, nor do I rend my clothes and weep for them. I don't give hugs, nor do I express affirmation or validation for their subjective feelings of despair, abandonment, etc. It would be accurate to describe me as "reserved" in this respect. I think it is correct to say that my approach does not differ whether I perceive their attempt as real or not.
I will, if necessary, be stern or authoritative to control behaviors which are unhelpful or disruptive, and I am not above telling excessively dramatic patients to cool it.
Despite this, I can and do make a clear distinction as to whether the patient was "really" suicidal or, as hannah put it, "parasuicidal," or somewhere in between. Some people -- many -- are clearly full of shit, and I can tell. Some people are for real, and they are sobering. Many are indeterminate, and I am humble enough to admit that they are hard to sort out.
So don't project your biases or past bad experiences onto me, folks.
- An impressed reader3/20/2008 10:48 PM
I want to say that I was very impressed by the original post. I am someone who has shown up in a Psych E.R. because I no longer trusted myself, but also to be sent as a teenager.ReplyDelete
Sometimes, yes, people need a reality check, not a fluffy pillow and a shoulder to cry on. I deal with many things with humor. If it is intense, it is often easier to laugh than cry. I am more effective if I am not burnt out.
Thank you for recognizing the tendency of suicide attempts as a dramatic gesture that some "attempters" will indeed be embarrassed by and making jokes about in the future.
Please get the word out that just showing up at the E.R. for help without the drama is much more effective and efficient.
- Anonymous3/21/2008 6:27 AM
Well, that's certainly different than your original post where you said,ReplyDelete
"These patients are often a huge pain in the ass. They are usually intoxicated, often combative and agitated, may require extensive workups to ensure that no actual life threats exist, and wind up spending hours and hours in the ER, weeping and wailing, puking charcoal all over and annoying staff with their dramatic and manipulative behavior."
Anybody reading that sees exactly how you feel about people who are suicidal and present to the ER for their concern. They are "a pain in the ass."
Most people who present to your ER and attempt suicide are, according to you, "dramatic and manipulative" as well as "intoxicated."
You really could use a class in compassion, and your chief could sure do a better job in training such abhorrent attitudes out of you. What you have is called "prejudice" against people who have what is called "emotional pain." But because you can't see it and it's not your specialty, you minimize it, insult the people who have it, and suggest most of them are just obnoxious drunks looking for attention.
Before admitting your prejudice in the future, and your ugly dislike for certain types of people, you really should think more about the hate you spread and the harm your words carry.
I didn't want to jump into the fray here, but I'm going to.ReplyDelete
I understand that there ARE, in fact, many people who use bullshit "suicide attempts" as the equivalent of a toddler holding his breath: because it's dramatic and attracts attention. And yes, that is annoying and a huge pain in the ass.
That being said, I get the impression from this post that everyone who gets close to suicide but doesn't follow through is lumped into this category, in the eyes of medical personnel.
That's actually not true. There are people who are seriously suicidal but have a flash of last-minute survival instinct, for example.
Also this post makes me squirm because it conveys the impression that there's something noble about "completing" a suicide and something weak and pathetic about changing your mind and deciding to live. And wow, I don't even know what to say about that. I'll shut up now.
You wrote: ". . . we are not overly impressed with the low-level stuff we usually see."ReplyDelete
What if one day one of your sons or daughter was in the ER for a low-level suicide attempt? Seriously think about it Doc. What kind of ER staff would you want helping him/her?
ER staff have saved my life on few occasions. Once it was for a drug-induced psychosis. You know how humiliating it was for me EACH time I visited the ER?
Medical staff cannot predict the future or look into the hearts or minds of their patients. Every suffering patient is an opportunity to touch his/her life. Everything you say and do matters.
- Anonymous3/21/2008 3:09 PM
Wow, a different view that I have wonderd about. I am extremely depressed and suicide is never far from my thoughts. Even suicide prevention tells you to go to ER, which I have considered for help. Guess not anymore.ReplyDelete
My husband died next to me while I slept (heart attack) at the old age of 43. I have been a recluse for a year now and things just get worse. So where do I go for help? No tight family, I've managed to lose friends due to me being a shut in, I'm not driving, not going outside, so I just waste each day away...could be a fate worse than death.
Much to think about, and it's ok, as there are lots of people who sadly don't understand depression. But I do thank you for the honest post.
- Anonymous3/21/2008 3:34 PM
Me again, the depressed one. OK, I've done more digging and I do understand somewhat. Mental illness is not what the ER staff is trained for. The traditional physical treatment is what ER was set up for.ReplyDelete
Sadly now suicide is the #11th cause of death in the U.S. and anyone dealing with depression (or someone who is) is having to deal with this...and we are not set up for it. Never have been, even when there were State funded Mental Hospitals, it was not the best. Yes, it helped with the homeless by giving the mentally ill a place that was safe and off the streets, but the means of treatment were barbaric. Sadly, I do know of examples first hand, as my mother was a committed patient in one of these.
Sadly, I don't have any answers to these problems but hopes there is, otherwise, why hope? Oh and Doc, just so you know, it's frustrating as hell for us depressed people too.
- Anonymous3/21/2008 11:13 PM
"What if one day one of your sons or daughter was in the ER for a low-level suicide attempt? Seriously think about it Doc. What kind of ER staff would you want helping him/her?"ReplyDelete
As the chronically para-suicidal daughter of an ER doc;
I mean, seriously, what a stupid question. At the most, my "status" saved me from having my stomach unnecessarily pumped. (I'd be found hours later, mostly just very very dehydrated.)
Nobody prostrated themselves over my body. Nobody ever said: "But why? You have so much to live for!" Nobody tried to act like a therapist. Nobody ever tried to do any more than shadowfax has admitted to.
The rest of you are idiots.
- Anonymous3/22/2008 10:22 PM
Wow, some some of the depressed people who are posting here must have gone to ERs and acted like assholes when feeling suicidal or why would they be so defensive and feel like the doc was talking about them personally?ReplyDelete
Not all people who make suicidal gestures are depressed. Some people are and need sympathy and support.
Some people who make suicidal gestures and threats and do it repeatedly ending up in the ER so frequently that the staff recognizes them by name do it because they're manipulative and bored. People with personality disorders have low boredom thresholds and it frequently drives them to act out by by taking pills and immediately reporting it to someone or making slash marks on themselves or other such "suicidal gestures."
Patients who use destructive behavior to garner attention do not benefit from positive reinforcement for the behavior. There is no therapeutic model for rewarding a patient for hurting themselves.
- Anonymous3/26/2008 9:10 AM
Some people might die who otherwise would live, as a result of this post.ReplyDelete
Even people who fully intend to die can sometimes screw it up and wind up in the emergency room, get effective treatment, and live. Publicized scorn for people who don't successfully kill themselves is an incentive to make absolutely sure your friends and family will be dealing with your death.
Before being effectively diagnosed and treated, I was suicidal on a number of occasions. I visited the emergency room once because I was very, very close to attempting, with full intent to die. Luckily, they did not respond to me as though I was wasting their time because I had not quietly and effectively killed myself elsewhere so that they didn't have to deal with me. (And yes, avoiding "being a burden to others" by ensuring that I tidily knocked myself off somewhere out of the way was on my mind.)
I wish I didn't have to deal with difficult people either; unfortunately, your clientele are as they are, not as you wish them to be.
To others: please do not take this doctor as representive of all ER personnel, and please do go to the ER if you are immediately suicidal, or need medical attention (for god's sake don't avoid going to the ER if you need stitches, regardless of why you need stitches), and especially if you realize before or after starting a suicide attempt that you want to live. Your life and the wellbeing of your friends and family is more important than a doctor's convenience.
To the doctor: if you don't want parasuicidal patients showing up in the ER, it would probably be more effective to work to get such patients into DBT therapy. If you truly think that some of your patients deserve to be dead (yes, this is what your post is implying), then please, please take a vacation or switch professions to one where you are not responsible for others' lives.
- Anonymous3/31/2008 6:09 PM
I am not a doctor, nor do I claim to know more than one. I can, however, completely relate to this person's perspective.ReplyDelete
In the past 2 years, I have found myself dealing with multiple suicide attempts by many people I am close with, including my ex husband. Quite frankly, I am tired of this total bullshit.
I agree that, of course, there are genuinely people out there with mental disorders and/or absolutely unbearble life situations (loss of child/husband/job) that result in a total loss of control and a serious desire to end one's life. I have also witnessed half-assed attempts by multiple people who want someone to coddle them and feel sorry for them.
I used to be the first person to the rescue. I'd ask how I could help, what made them feel the way they did, what could help prevent this in the future. The fact of the matter is, I cant take these "attemts" seriously anymore. These attempts ARE a pain in the ass, and they are, above all, the most self-centered thing you could possiby ever do.
I had to file a police report with a blood-soaked letter in my hands, while my future ex-husband's parents and brother could do nothing but pace and cry. What these people crying for attention don't think about is: what happens if you succeed? If you accidentally kill yourself, you don't just leave your loved ones with fond memories of you. You leave them with questions. And those questions are something they'll have to deal with for the rest of their lives: Why did they do this? Why couldn't we stop it?
By taking your own life, you take the lives of everyone else you care about with you. If you can't get it together for yourself, seek help so you can get it together for them.
- Anonymous4/10/2008 6:35 PM
The part about the "incompleters" being overly dramatic and loud, intoxicated, etc, is interesting to me. I've been to the ER twice for attempted suicide (and I assure you, I meant it - things happen), and both times was dismissed out-of-hand because I was very calm and courteous to the medical staff - apologetic, even, for taking up their time.ReplyDelete
Eventually someone would come back to the ER's "nut room," where I was stashed, waiting for the on-call psychiatrist, and tell me with new concern or maybe just interest that I was in fact in need of immediate blood transfusions or charcoal/antidote. They were surprised that I'd done exactly what I'd told them I'd done, because I wasn't wailing or crying. One doctor was quite angry with me for not making the emergency clear. Um... in the ER... told you what I did... ??
Can't win for losing, I guess.
I appreciate your honestly, and you seem a decent sort. At least you're courteous. Puts you head and shoulders over far too many docs out there. Do they beat the compassion out of you people in medical school?
It makes me angry that those who should be there to care for and help those who are in pain, mental or physical, show such contempt for those who don't fit their criteria of 'seriousness'.ReplyDelete
Whether or not they want to die (and I don't think you can know with certainty that they don't, if not now, further down the line when they have been sufficiently rejected and marginalised by attitudes such as yours), they are coming to you with a need for compassion and humanity. If you can't give them that, maybe you're in the wrong line of work.
- Anonymous4/16/2008 6:27 AM
My husband's ex is in the hospital now as a result of an attempted suicide. They have three children, 13 yr. old twins, boy & girl and a 17 yr. old boy. I am furious over this. She lived through a kolonipen overdose w/alcohol I presume. This woman has tried every trick in the book for attention and she certainly succeeds. She was in ICU for two weeks in a coma and is now in the hospital and is displaying some kind of mutism. I tend to think it's put on but I know I could be wrong. She looked at me as if she wanted to hit me when I went in to see her with my husband and then she started crying. I don't know the ends and outs of her condition but I do know she has succeeded in upsetting the lives of her kids as well as mine. I have to watch my husband pet her hands and face and tell her everything is going to be all right and frankly that just pisses me off. I don't have sympathy for people like this at all. She is a drug abuser and all of us have choices in this life and she chooses to be what she is. Am I a bad person? I don't think so.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4/21/2008 7:18 PM
"So don't project your biases or past bad experiences onto me, folks."ReplyDelete
It sounds as if you have already projected your biases and past experiences on anyone with a mental illness presented in your E.R. Thanks for the honesty, however. It lets patients know that they need to bring someone to the ER with them to protect them from the staff.
"Why would they feel like the doc was talking about them personally?"ReplyDelete
He's not. He's standing in for all the docs with similar attitudes, just as the suicidal people he sees represent to him all the other "incompleters" he's seen.
A look from the other side: http://lunarrose.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/worst-doctor-ever/
- Anonymous4/30/2008 1:52 PM
I work in an outpatient setting where we see "drama" on a daily basis. I am not an effective clinician unless I can relieve my annoyance at this behavior and remember that what we do to help heal even these behaviors makes just as much difference as setting a broken bone. The clients/patients are not in our care to annoy us...ReplyDelete
Wow, this post saddens me. I have survived two suicide attempts that were most definitely serious. I admit that I was ignorant of how much pills and alcohol it would take to do the job, but it wasn't for lack of intent.ReplyDelete
The first time a friend made me vomit & kept me awake. The second time a friend found me & I ended up in the ER.
Thank God the doctors there took me seriously. I was as quiet & polite as possible telling them I'd made a stupid mistake, I was acting impulsively, it was just a cry for help, etc, etc. I was trying desperately to appear remorseful so they would release me and I could go home and finish what I had started, now realizing I needed to do some research on dosing.
The doctor in the ER saved my life by not dismissing me as a pain in the ass, but by taking what I'm sure looked like a pathetic gesture seriously, and putting me on a psychiatric hold.
I know that your job is stressful & you have to deal with many unpleasant people, but PLEASE never assume you know a patient's intent. Looking back my attempts were not physically serious, but I truly thought they were. I am so thankful the doctor did not dismiss me as an attention seeker, because I would have done my research and completed as soon as possible.
Mental illness & depression may be a pain in the ass for you to deal with, but it is much worse personally struggling with it day in and day out. I say this not with anger, but with utmost sincerity - please have compassion for the suicidal (whether or not you think they are serious) or find another profession or practice where you do not have to work with them.
- Anonymous5/28/2008 10:54 PM
Hi Everyone,ReplyDelete
I'm finding the post and subsequent comments very interesting, and extremely timely. I can't even remember how I found this blog in my web surfing tonight so I'll share the events of today.
I'm under psychiatric care and have been for many years due to recurrent major depression and Borderline Personality Disorder. I'm sure the docs here all know about BPD and I believe we have additional, and probably deserved, stigma beyond the stigma attached to other mental illnesses.
I'm 46, single mom to 2 teens. Today, my thoughts of suicide reached a breaking point. I guess I can share progress (?) in that from age 17 until a few years ago, I almost always attempted suicide when I felt like this. Some times were more serious than others. Some I intended to die (laid in middle of highway, CO2 [found by accident], and another too complicated to share).
I will try to focus on today, though. I truly did not know what to do. I know that I want to die. I know my method of choice and it would be final. BUT, I also know that my kids adore me and need me. It should be a no brainer and there are lots of "shoulds". But, I didn't know what to do. I wanted to get help but honestly I feel that without an "attempt" no one will believe that I am suicidal. In fact, if I don't kill myself, am I really suicidal?? Because, shouldn't I "shit or get off the pot"? Isn't it time for everyone to know I mean business? Do I want to keep feeling this way? No. But I do think suicide would be selfish of me. But I also think at long last I deserve peace of mind, aka death. But, that would destroy my children's chance of having peace of mind. I look forward to nothing. I exist for my children only. Should that be enough? I can't say it's not or I will be labelled a cruel, unloving mother. I did talk to my psychiatrist today and he increased my anti-psychotic to a level that will greatly sedate me. He said there is a shortage of psych beds right now and I would have to wait a day and a half in the ER "cell" before being admitted so sedation is the route right now.
I long to go to the ER because I feel so unsafe, so frightened and the thoughts of suicide FILL my mind. I went to the hospital but after sitting outside for eight hours pondering my choices, I chose not to go to the ER. I didn't feel important enough, I knew I would not be taken seriously and I knew that if I were "dismissed" it could send me over the edge to "completion".
There are no right or wrong answers. The human psyche is complicated. I have been one of those manipulative, charcoal-puking, half-assed-attempters. So, how do I tell someone that this time I'm so scared not to be taken seriously due to my wolf cries of the past? Thanks for listening.
CH, your story illustrates why this doctor's attitude is so toxic.ReplyDelete
I hope you find safety and help. I am saddened that the system is such that it is so hard for you to find them.
An attempted carbon monoxide suicide may look like they failed when in reality the survivor goes on to experience all kinds of health and neurological problems because of it.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5/20/2013 8:40 PM
I'm glad I don't remember anything after taking enough pills that I truly thought would kill me (this was before the internet.) All I'll say is that I hope the doctor and staff were not like this guy (who can "fake empathy"). Empathy isn't crying over someone or holding their hand; it is putting yourself in someone's place for a moment. I really hope the doctor who treated me was more like this: http://edwinleap.com/blog/?p=65ReplyDelete
The first effort, by the rope. The second, by anti-freeze. I'm thinking fast-moving truck for #3. Feedback?ReplyDelete


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I wasn't sure if I should write about this. My head has been all over the place these last 2 days and I've been an emotional wreck at times and then I'm okay. I've rolled my eyes at the idea of posting this type of thing on Facebook or Twitter because it would just fall in line with people's updates/tweets about whatever stupid thing they've eaten or drank, whatever silly thing they want to complain about and it just diminishes everything about this situation.
My dad died yesterday.
While I've been saying for quite some time that I thought the end was near (my dad wasn't eating much and his health has been steadily declining) – I just wasn't prepared for this. This came out of left field. I spoke to him on Father's Day and said, "Dad – are you giving up on me?" (meaning – is his eating a sign that he's quitting on life?) And he said, "Not hardly. I'll go out kicking and screaming."
Forgive this post – I'm finding it helpful for me to write this out. I feel like the more I write or say what happened, the less I'll sob about it. So this post is more for me than informing my 4 readers about the situation. You can stop reading now if you wish.
It started Friday morning. I woke up and saw that I had missed a ton of calls from my mother. I knew something was wrong. I called her and she said my dad was in the hospital. She said he had fallen and broken his ribs but that they rushed him to a hospital downtown. That didn't make sense to me (since broken ribs don't usually require a hospital transport). Instead of extreme worry – I was overcome with extreme anger.
He's in the hospital again?! God! Why don't they take care of themselves?! I have to drive my mom to the hospital for what? He's just going to be released in a few days.
I was such an asshole about it that I didn't even drive her to the hospital. I was so angry that Jeremy ended up going. I found out that my dad had taken a nasty fall (he had been falling quite a bit lately) but this one resulted in fractured ribs that led to a collapsed lung. Still – they rushed him to shock trauma? That doesn't sound right.
Jeremy called me and said that I needed to get to the hospital.
My dad was heavily sedated and I was told that they discovered that a stent in my dad's heart was leaking. Was this a result of the fall? Nobody knows. But the leaking blood was putting pressure on an aneurism in his aorta (the reason he had the stent in the first place). Now the question was how to proceed. The aneurism was a "ticking timebomb" but my dad was in no condition of major surgery.
The hospital chose to monitor him.
I didn't even go to see him on Saturday. I dropped my mom off at the hospital and went to the pool. And this is something I'll have a really hard time forgiving myself for.
I went on Sunday. At this point, they had to intubate him because the pressure building up in his aorta was cutting off his air supply. So now he couldn't talk at all. He was even more sedated but would have moments where he was responsive. He try to mouth some words (but with a tube hanging out, it was difficult to determine what he was saying) and he'd nod his head.
I spoke with a vascular technician and a cardiac surgeon. They both presented similar scenarios and concern. Both needed to come together with a plan of action.
My father, heavily sedated, was in and out of sleep so we left. My mom said her sweet goodbyes and I kissed my dad on the forehead.
After I dropped my mom off at home, I received a call from the hospital.
Hi – um… about 10 minutes after you left, your father started bleeding really badly. We did everything we could… and I'm sorry to say that he passed away.
I didn't hear anything else. I just started sobbing. I handed the phone to Jeremy. Apparently the aneurism in his aorta had erupted.
I broke the news to my mom and that was the hardest thing ever. She sobbed uncontrollably for several hours.
We went back to the hospital to see my dad. My mom spent and hour and half on top of my dad sobbing. She yelled, "wake up!" a few times and then ap0logized profusely for leaving him.
So – that's where I'm at. I really thought I would be emotionally prepared for this but I'm not. Are you ever?


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Junior Philip Laskey (Marietta, Ga.) of the men's cross country team has been named the Bobcat Athlete of the Week for his efforts at the Augusta State University hosted Jaguar Invitational Oct. 5.
Laskey would finish first for the Bobcats, a feat he's accomplished every race this season. He took in eighth out of 80 runners, with a time of 26:44 in the 8K race. Laskey's time was the ninth fastest finish for an 8K race in Bobcat history.
Laskey is the first member of the men's cross country team to be named Bobcat Athlete of the Week during the 2012 season. Tyler Mattix was the last member of the men's cross country team to be named Bobcat Athlete of the Week on Nov. 8, 2011.
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My guide to a sustainable Congress has been put together to help delegates make environmentally-smart decisions at different stages of their trip to and stay in Barcelona. It is part of the IUCN's effort to practice what it preaches at this year's event on sustainability and conservation. The guide will hopefully get you thinking about how you can combine your own plans and interests with more sustainable forms of travel.
The Spanish and French version of the guide will be available shortly.
This year you will be one of the 8,000 or so IUCN members and affiliates travelling from around the world to gather for ten days at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona. Though we hope much will be gained from us meeting together in one place, we recognize that the travel, consumption and waste generation linked to the Congress have implications for the local and global environment.
Mainly at stake are:
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- biodiversity, due to links with the food and other products we consume—from fish to wine corks!
- the sustainability of local water supplies, as well as our paper sources.
This guide has been put together with these issues in mind. It aims to help minimize the adverse impact of participation in the Congress, individually and collectively, by providing delegates with a number of smart options that are relevant at different stages of the Congress.
You will find guidelines on how best to plan your trip, from choosing how to get to Barcelona and where to stay, to packing your bags. And further along the line we take into account water use issues, species that invade suitcases and then new habitats, options for eating out responsibly, and some local cultural considerations.


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Sunday, October 3, 2010
Schedule time for analysis after your research trip
When it comes to genealogy research, I'm pretty good at planning research trips. I determine which repository I need to go to, how long it will take me to drive, print out my route maps and figure out where to park.
I'm also good about making a research plan ahead of time. I determine what I'm going to research, print out a plan and make sure I have all the supporting documentation available to me during my trip. That allows me to stay focused so that I can accomplish what I set out to do. Since I typically have very restricted time frames to do repository research that is very helpful and keeps me focused.
The one area I'm not so good at is scheduling analysis time afterward. If I were very organized I would schedule a couple hours immediately after my trip. My family life, however, typically prevents me from spending time on analysis right when I get home.
Ideally the analysis or "round up" time should happen within 24 hours of your trip before you forget. You can wait up to 48 if necessary but try not to put if off any longer than that. You are undermining all the benefits you got from your research if you wait too long.
*If* I were to follow my own advice, my round up time would look like this:
- Create a folder for the project (if not done before your trip)
- Create proper citations on the documents themselves
- Scan documents into the computer (I don't like paper, I prefer everything in the computer where I can find it. I'll just lose the paper.)
- Type up any handwritten notes taken during the trip
- Spend time carefully reading through copies of the original documents (determine if a transcription is needed)
- Update any charts with new information
- Analyze the documents to determine what impact they have on your understanding of your research
- Create a new research plan based on clues that lead you in a new direction
I'm looking forward to the time when I can do this immediately after my research trips. For now I'll have to settle for doing it within a few days of the trip.
How are you at reserving time to round up a research trip? Do you do anything different in your round up/analysis process? Let me know! I'd love to hear your ideas for improving this.
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Here is something I learned this summer. If you take a long distance research trip, take the time to write out all the contacts you made on the trip- distant relatives, archivists, librarians, genealogists, cemetery superintendents, curators, etc. and put their names, addresses, email, websites, etc. on a separate sheet of paper to keep in that folder you started for your project. This is invaluable for following up with "thank yous" and for future contact when you don't understand your notes, or you need more information from a certain resource.ReplyDelete
If I'm traveling for several days, I try to analyze each day's research that night. I take a scanner on the road so I can at least start scanning as I go. This works out best if you are traveling alone.ReplyDelete
My problem is doing the analysis when I didn't really find anything. I've got 3 days worth of notes from last week that are basically just lists of books and record groups that I checked but found nothing. It's just as important to document that information but I couldn't get interested in it on the road and I'm still having trouble generating any interest in it now that I'm home.
I agree with Linda that the analysis should be done as close to the event as possible. Case in point: our trip though Kansas and Missouri this summer.ReplyDelete
If it weren't for my genealogist husband, I'd still be confusing the courthouse at Smith County, Kansas with the courthouse at Clinton County, Missouri.
After 8-14 days on the road, things tended to run together. I'd also recommend a log book, detailing which road you took, where you ate, stayed, etc.


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More than 450 wild horses have been killed in Nevada. Some people say it is worse than when all the buffaloes were killed. Many of the horses were shot while running.
The land they were on belongs to the government. Twenty-eight thousand horses share the land with six million cattle. Cattlemen say the horses are crowding the cattle out. One rancher said that there is a range war going on. Both the cattle and the horses need the water and grass that is on the land.
The law protects wild horses. The president of the Nevada cattleman group also helps to protect the horses. He says that he does not like what is happening to the horses, but he does want the government to help keep the number of horses low.
Some people think the Navy used the wild horses for target practice. Pilots fly over the area where the horses were found. The horses were found far from the nearest road. The killings happened over a large area. It has been happening for the last two years. The Navy said that they do not let their pilots kill horses.
Some people think that the horses should be gotten rid of. Others think that they should stay. In the meantime, the police will try to figure out who did it.


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Dr. Kodaman is Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Yale School of Medicine and serves as the Director of the Advanced Endoscopic Reproductive Surgery Program specializing in surgery for fibroids, endometriosis, and other female reproductive disorders. In addition to advanced endoscopic reproductive surgery, Dr. Kodaman's interests include infertility, abnormal uterine bleeding, primary ovarian insufficiency, PCOS, and Asherman's syndrome. Dr. Kodaman also serves as one of the physicians in the PCOS Program at Yale where her focus is the cardiovascular risks associated with this endocrine disorder.
Dr Kodaman received her medical training at the Yale School of Medicine and her graduate degree in pharmacology from Yale University. She subsequently completed her internship and residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, also at Yale.
Dr. Kodaman is board certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. She has over 30 publications and multiple research interests, including the regulation of angiogenesis and the effects of oxidative stress on reproductive function. She serves as a reviewer for various scientific journals, has lectured at numerous meetings, and plays an active role in educating undergraduates, medical students, and residents at Yale.
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