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Stephen Spinella, Tovah Feldshuh and More Set for Red Bull Theater's VOLPONE, Opens 11/27
Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Artistic Director) will present a rare revival of Ben Jonson's VOLPONE, or The Fox, for a strictly limited engagement beginning November 27th at the Lucille Lortel Theater (121 Christopher Street, between Bleecker and Hudson Streets).
Mr. Berger directs a company that features Jen Eden (Galileo the Musical), Alvin Epstein ("one of our culture's hidden treasures" - Village Voice; "one of the great classical actors of his generation" - New York Magazine), Tovah Feldshuh (4 Tony Award nominations - Best Actress, 4 Drama Desk Awards, 4 Outer Critics Circle Awards, Obie, Theatre World and Lucille Lortel Awards), Cameron Folmar (The 39 Steps - Broadway), Michael Mastro (Broadway: Love! Valour! Compassion!, Barrymore, Side Man, Judgement At Nuremberg, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Twelve Angry Men, Mamma Mia!), Sean Patrick Doyle (La Cage Aux Folles, Mary Poppins), Christina Pumariega (Seminar - Broadway; Witch of Edmonton - Red Bull Theater; Uncle Vanya - Soho Rep), Pearl Rhein (The Red Letterbox - CSC), Rocco Sisto (Quills - Drama Desk Award), Alexander Sovronsky (Broadway: Cyrano de Bergerac; NYSF: Romeo & Juliet; TFANA - Othello), Teale Sperling (Christmas Spectacular 2010, '11 - RCMH), Stephen Spinella (Tony Award winner: Best Featured Actor and Best Actor for his performance as Prior Walter in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika respectively; Tony nomination for Best Featured Actor - James Joyce's The Dead), Charles Turner (Broadway: Dividing the Estate, On Golden Pond, The Little Foxes; Off-Broadway: The Orphans' Home Cycle; The Play About the Baby; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), and Gregory Wooddell (Broadway: The Lyons).
Meet Volpone, the rich old Magnifico, whose ingenious schemes and farcical scams dupe his wealthy friends into showering him with gold. This Jacobean juggler robs the rich to feed the richer. Considered one of the greatest comedies ever written for the stage, Jonson's merciless satire of greed and lust delightfully skewers the vanities and hypocrisies of humanity with irreverent comic relish. A feast of extraordinary language and outrageous characters await you in this timeless and timely classic from the pen of Shakespeare's greatest peer.
Volpone will have set design by John Arnone, costume design by Clint Ramos, lighting design by Peter West, choreography by Tracy Bersley, and original music by Scott Killian.
Red Bull Theater, hailed as "the city's gutsiest classical theater" by Time Out New York, is the not-profit Off-Broadway theater company specializing in plays of heightened language, with a unique focus on the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. In the 2012 season, building on its history of Revelation Readings and In The Raw Workshops, the company expanded its production repertoire to include world classics from all eras, starting with Jean Genet's The Maids. Red Bull Theater continues to produce large-scale works from Shakespeare's era and rarely produced classics from across the spectrum as it expands the number of full productions on offer per season, this year featuring Ben Jonson's Volpone and a spring revival of August Strindberg's modern classic, The Dance of Death. Red Bull Theater embraces the imagination of theatergoers through intimate, imaginative productions of great classic stories.
Acclaimed as "a troupe that lovers of classic theater should put on the must-watch list," by Charles Isherwood in The New York Times, Red Bull Theater has previously staged productions of Shakespeare's Pericles, the anonymous Revenger's Tragedy, Marlowe's Edward the Second, Middleton's Women Beware Women, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, the Off Broadway premiere of Dekker, Ford & Rowley's Witch of Edmonton, and a major Off Broadway revival of Jean Genet's The Maids. The New York Times called Pericles "the stuff of dreams," The Revenger's Tragedy "Dynamite!," Edward the Second "fired with excitement," Women Beware Women "exuberant, vividly acted," The Duchess of Malfi "boiling drama," The Witch of Edmonton was hailed by Ben Brantley as "a singular blend of psychological realism, naturalistic detail and lurid, black-magic-shadowed sensationalism" and The Maids as "delectable" and "wonderful" and was nominated as Outstanding Revival by both the Drama League and Lucille Lortel Awards. All of Red Bull Theater's productions have enjoyed sold-out and often extended Off-Broadway runs.
Now heading towards its 10th Anniversary in 2013, Red Bull Theater's work has been recognized with multiple Callaway, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, and OBIE Award nominations and Awards.
Red Bull Theater has staged over 100 readings through its ongoing OBIE Award-winning Revelation Readings, named by the Village Voice "Best Play Reading Series," and has developed several new plays of heightened language and classics of the future through its In-the-Raw workshop program. Red Bull Theater reaches out to NYC students of all ages through its Direct Address education programs, teaching drama and literacy utilizing Shakespeare, as well as providing ASL-Interpreted performances and student matinees for all productions. Post-play "Bull Session" discussions with noted scholars following Sunday matinees of all productions are free and open to the public.
Benefit Gala Night for Volpone will be Sunday, December 2nd at 7pm with special guests to be announced.
Performances of Volpone will be Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday evenings at 7:30pm, Friday evenings at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm & 8pm, and Sunday matinees at 3pm. Visit www.redbulltheater.com for complete calendar.
Tickets from $20 may be purchased online at www.redbulltheater.com or by phone at 212/352-3101.
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(Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry offered a defense of freedom of speech, religion and thought in the United States on Tuesday telling German students that in America "you have a right to be stupid if you want to be."
"As a country, as a society, we live and breathe the idea of religious freedom and religious tolerance, whatever the religion, and political freedom and political tolerance, whatever the point of view," Kerry told the students in Berlin, the second stop on his inaugural trip as secretary of state.
"People have sometimes wondered about why our Supreme Court allows one group or another to march in a parade even though it's the most provocative thing in the world and they carry signs that are an insult to one group or another," he added.
"The reason is, that's freedom, freedom of speech. In American you have a right to be stupid – if you want to be," he said, prompting laughter. "And you have a right to be disconnected to somebody else if you want to be.
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MILTON — We're back in business and friendship after taking a winter break. But if one looks around, it still looks as if it will be July before the snow leaves! Believe it or not, the women in our family were on the beach at this time last year and it was in the 80s!
We received countless comments about our hearts throughout the town. And now, the eggs are in place reminding us of Easter. Soon it will be time for flowers. We already have our volunteers lined up for watering.
Meredith Lineweber entertained us with a "Name that Tune" program. We divided the club into two groups and she played tunes on the piano for us to name. Needless to say, Tina Ryan's group won hands down.
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I decided to run this race for a few reasons: 1. it's in a part of Denmark I've never seen, though only a 25 minute drive from where we live. 2. I am going a little stir crazy with my entire family in the US since Wednesday (I had to stay behind due to work) 3. It is put on by The Mogenstrup Athletic Club and they have a way of finding routes that actually require trail running shoes.
Here is some Danish artwork by a church in Snesere, on the way to the race. Sometimes I feel like such a tourist.
Beautiful day, huh? Did I mention the race started at 11?
When I arrived in Tappernøje, I didn't really know anyone. I recognized some people, but felt extremely awkward. Danes have this way of staring at people, like a 3 year old might, and continuing to stare without saying why they are staring or giving any indication if their thoughts are positive or negative. Yes, being now visibly quite pregnant, I felt like a cow on display in this provincial area of Denmark. I just wasn't sure if I was a prize cow or a mutant cow. But who cares? This cow was going to enjoy the race.
Finally two of my friends showed up. One of them, Charlotte, who had won the race for the women last year in a time of 1:46 (if that gives you any idea of how hard the route is - it's not a tiny race). It surprised me how concerned she was that I was going to run "an entire" half marathon pregnant. "Are you sure you should do this????". I told her about the 50k next weekend...
Here is a map of the route. The green areas are woods, so it wasn't on trails the entire time. I do tend to exaggerate, you know.
And here is the elevation profile. Glad I didn't look at this beforehand because I would have spent the race dreading that last uphill.
Picture of the race start by Jonas Christensen
The race started out okay. Actually, I felt kind of crappy. The first 7 or so km were mostly on roads and my calves really hurt when I run on roads in my minimalist trails shoes. Poor me. I figured under 2 hours was unlikely at the beginning - maybe if it were all flat. And then when I came through the first half of the race in just over an hour, I knew under two hours was out of the question.
But, then the trails came. Beautiful. And the weather and the air. Yes!! I started booking it and passing people. I had this recurring thought that what I was doing was nothing compared to O-Lan in The Good Earth. She went out and worked the fields all afternoon the day she had given birth! I may like to run, but don't ask me to farm on post-partum day 0!
We climbed a gigantic hill that no one ran the whole way up and then there was the view of the ocean! This was a runner's high. And I ran on, enjoying the sun and wind at my back - at a 7 min per mile pace. Heaven! With about 5 miles to go, we actually had to run through a river. Everyone had this idea that they couldn't get their shoes wet, but I ran right through- I know better. But then came fatigue and dizziness. Still no contractions, but I felt really faint and had to slow down. No point in risking anything. Thankfully an aid station with a charming older woman serving sports drink appeared at the edge of the woods. I had two large cups and foraged ahead. Now was the time for the uphill. And, damn, it was into the wind. And little contractions started. The last two miles were not the most fun, but I made it in under two hours!! 1:57:14.
Here was the finish line:
I have never been so proud of such a slow time ;). I think I might have even been in the top 5 females (EDIT: well, turns out I was 8/22- and I don't find that shameful at all) What an awesome race. And here I am. The guy who took the picture made me hold up my diploma - I'm not trying to cover the belly. Isn't that a peaceful pavillion behind me? Though a pavillion just ins't the same without SR there to enjoy it with me.This is my crappy, blurry picture of an oceanic bay by Tappernøje. And this picture was too Danish not to include: farm, blonde boy, little car, Danish flag, etc. I don't know if this will work, but here are all of my race details from my Garmin. It's actually not that easy to identify the three stops to pee. Overall pace was 8:53 min/mile.
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Running Song of the day: Accused of Stealing by the Delgados. (awesome, awesome song which I love as much now as I did in college)
And one more song; a brand new one - Lament by Mount Moriah (I think you will love it the first time you hear it!)


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Cytotoxic Mechanism in Cutaneous Disease:A comprehensive study of the defense mechanisms that protect epidermal melanocytes and keratinocytes from immunologic cytotoxicity, especially the induction of apoptosis.Specific Aims:1: To confirm that bcl-2 is a major anti-apoptotic defense in melanocytes and melanoma cell lines, and to demonstrate that the high levels of bcl-2 in these cells depend on activation of the ras signalling pathway by integrin or neurotrophin receptor ligation. High bcl-2 expression will be shown to render melanocytes and melanoma cells resistant to immunologic cytotoxicity.2: To verify that keratinocyte resistance to apoptosis can also be modulated by activation of ras signalling pathways by integrins or neurotrophin receptors. To demonstrate that susceptibility of keratinocytes to immunologic cytotoxicity will be modulated byras activation or inactivation.3: To determine whether p53 activation decreases anti-apoptotic defenses in keratinocytes in the same way that it does in melanocytes/melanomas.
Melanoma Resistance to Apoptosis:A comprehensive study of the anti-apoptotic defenses of melanoma , and ways to reverse these defenses.Specific Aims:1: To determine whether activated ras increases cell resistance to apoptotic triggers, especially anti-cancer chemotherapy agents.2: To investigate the mechanisms and signaling pathway(s) by which activated ras increases survival of melanomas and enhances resistance to chemotherapy. a) Whether activated ras regulates control and "program" parts of apoptosis. b) Whether the signaling pathway is via MAPK (mitogen-activated-protein kinase) cascade and CREB (Cyclic AMP responsive element binding protein).3: To investigate whether blocking activity of signaling pathway from Ras, CREB, to Bcl-2 decreases cell survival of these melanoma cell lines, which would test whether the involvement of these proteins are specific, and might lead to improved cancer therapies.
Control of Migration in Melanoma:This is a collaborate laboratory/clinical program with Dr. Karl Pfenninger to determine the factors that control melanoma migration, and changes in melanoma migration with progression.Specific Aims:1: To define the elements of the phospholipase A2, lipoxygenase, Protein Kinase C, and MARCKS (PLPM) Pathway in melanomas at different stages of progression.2: To determine the effect of progression mutations and cellular repellents on controlling melanoma dispersal and invasion from dermal tumors.3: to disrupt the PLPM pathway by transfection of key componentns on the pathway and determine the effect on melanoma progression.
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Saint Cosmas the Hymnographer, Bishop of Maiuma, was a native of Jerusalem. He was raised by the parents of Saint John of Damascus (December 4) together with their son, and he received a fine education. When Saint Cosmas came of age, he set out to one of the monasteries of Palestine, where he attained renown for his monastic exploits.
During a time of persecution against holy icons Saint Cosmas, and the venerable John, came forward to defend Orthodoxy. In the year 743 Cosmas was made Bishop of Maiuma. He died in old age, leaving behind many canons for feast days and a Triodion for four days of Holy Week.


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Scientists may have resolved a long-standing puzzle in climate science by showing that ancient increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide came at the same time as rising temperatures, rather than hundreds of years afterward.
In a new analysis of bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice, published Thursday in Science, lead author Frederic Parrenin of the Laboratory of Glaciology and Geophysics of the Environment, in Grenoble, France, and his colleagues write that at the end of the last ice age, about 20,000 years ago, . . . Antarctic temperature did not begin to rise hundreds of years before the concentration of CO2, as has been suggested in earlier studies.
Scientists had been saying the CO2 was an amplifier of global warming, but not the initial cause, Parrenin said. Now were saying it could be the cause.
This doesn't mean CO2 isnt an amplifier as well. If the oceans warm, basic chemistry says that some of the carbon dioxide dissolved in the water will emerge into the atmosphere. And if the permafrost that covers about a quarter of the Northern Hemispheres land surface melts, it will put enormous amounts of carbon dioxide (plus methane, an even more powerful greenhouse), into the atmosphere as well.
Figure 5 from Shaken et al., 2012 illustrates the seeming disparity between temperature and CO2 changes.(Credit: Shaken et al., 2012.)
This new analysis only applies to the most recent period of natural warming, which brought the planet out of the last ice age starting about 20,000 years ago.
I think theyve taken a big step toward getting this right, said Edward Brook, a paleo-climatologist at Oregon State University, in an interview. Brook also wrote a commentary on the research for Science, and he cautioned in that commentary that We . . . do not know whether the results can be generalized to other time periods.
Still, if there remained any doubt that CO2 itself could initiate global warming, this paper along with a 2012 paper that also showed no time lag should go a long way toward putting that doubt to rest.
The time lag suggested by those earlier studies didnt call into question the well-established relation between CO2 and warming, and did nothing to lessen scientists confidence and fear that without curbing human greenhouse-gas emissions, global temperatures will continue to rise dangerously through the rest of this century. Nevertheless, the new research emphasizes that the CO2-warming relationship could be somewhat more straightforward in some ways than previously thought.
The idea that warming came before CO2, rather than simultaneously, comes from ancient ice drilled from Greenland and Antarctica. The ice itself reveals what the temperature was at a given time (it has to do with the relative amounts of different types of oxygen atoms) and the air bubbles trapped within the ice show how much CO2 was present in the atmosphere.
But the bubbles are actually younger than the ice that traps them. Thats because the bubbles start out as air spaces between snowflakes on the surface, and gradually become entombed as new layers of snow compress the old, eventually turning it to ice. That doesnt happen, however, until the snow is between 200 and 300 feet deep, and until it does happen, air circulates within the snow. We have an ice archive, said Parrenin in an interview, and we have a gas archive, and they dont have the same age.
Ice-core experts estimate and correct for the age difference, and the general consensus had been that temperature increases at the ends of ice ages stretching back at least 400,000 years preceded CO2 increases by about 800 years. Some triggering factor a change to the angle of summer sunlight at the poles, for example, or a change in ocean currents, or both began warming the Earth, triggering the release of CO2 from the oceans, which warmed the planet further, in an upward spiral. Some sort of opposite spiral, went the argument, plunged us back into an ice age.
Still, there was plenty uncertainty in the timing, so Parrenin and his colleagues came up with a new way to estimate the age difference between ice and air: they looked at a heavy, naturally occurring form of nitrogen that sinks to the bottom of the air circulating within snow. Since this is where ice finally solidifies, the bubbles are always richer than average with this heavy nitrogen, and depending on how rich it is, the scientists were able to measure how thick the snow was and thus how long the air had been circulating before being entombed.
When they used this new age-correction factor, Parrenin and his colleagues recalculated the lag between temperature and CO2, and it more or less vanished.
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How to Teach 1st Grade
Teaching 1st grade will be different by teaching high school students. Required certain techniques so that the child can absorb lessons more fun considering the psychological child is still in the early learning stages.
The voice sounded clear enough by children, intonation, etc. are things that are very important to be possessed by the teacher. For early elementary grades, they are still considered early childhood, before providing early childhood learning, as teachers need to recognize the characteristics of elementary school age children first. Do not forget to always give something new and varied for them. No need expensive, objects in the environment can be the object of exploration for children.
The period is also very short of their concentration. Thus, teachers must have a second plan, and even third, fourth plan needs to be prepared for them so they do not saturate. Keep in mind that early childhood is a period play. Thus, the instruction given to them should be based on the principles of play (fun, children can explore, gain a lot of experience).
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Ken Detlet has joined the Associated Press as vice president for digital advertising strategy and sales. The position is a first for the global news agency as it builds an internal advertising team to support a growing line of digital offerings that include AP's mobile applications, sports microsites, online video channels and social network accounts.
Detlet joins the strategy and digital products team at AP, reporting to senior vice president Jim Kennedy.
"This is a strategic move for AP, as we grow our revenue from advertising and sponsorships," Kennedy said. "Ken has all the right skills and experience to chart a unique course for us."
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Quote from: greatplainsbrewer on September 14, 2013, 08:47:31 PMMaybe just oversize your starter and harvest from that+1! I make a starter 500ml larger than the size starter I need. If I need a 2L starter, I'll make a 2.5L starter and pour all but 500ml. Set that extra 500ml in the fridge to let settle. Take a mason jar with 1/4 - 1/2 filled w/ water and microwave for 2 minutes to sanitize the water and jar. Put a sanitized lid on the jar and let cool in the fridge. Then take the extra starter, pour out most of the liquid and leave just enough to mix up the yeast on the bottom and pour into the mason jar and put into the fridge. Next time I need the yeast, I make another starter and make it 500ml more and repeat the process. Clean yeast every time and much easier than washing yeast from a carboy.


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"Say something," Mike said.
"OK. Something!" Ted replied. Both men laughed as they played with their new Nokia headsets.
"Ok clever guy. Now say, 'I think Mike McCarthy is a pimp," Mike said.
"I think… Ted Thompson is a pimp," Ted responded, barely able to keep a straight face.
"Cheater!" Mike replied, also on the verge of losing it.
This playful banter apparently continued for a good 20 minutes before the official "Meet the Staff: The Men Behind The Jockstraps" session began. But why not? It's been all work for two of the biggest faces of the organization this Packer offseason, so it was fitting they got a chance to goof around during a time when human cheddar wheel outfits, green and gold body paint and Leinenkugels flow like Boone's Farm.
Of course, I'm talking about Fan Fest 2009. Though this Ranter was stuck delivering pizzas Sunday (weekends = $$$ for drivers), I did drive by Lambeau 3-4 times to catch a glimpse of the fun. Also, I wasn't too concerned because I know like 6 people who went – each of whom I promised a 'Large 1-topping' voucher if they emailed me all the juicy details.
So far, only one responded: Tanker, my roommate at wrestling camp in '87 at UW Stevens Point. Now, Tanker's got a huge melon (and body to go with it), but as we all know, that doesn't always translate to a huge IQ (otherwise, blue whales and cows would be geniuses), so most of the information I get has to be taken with a grain of salt. But, he usually comes through in the end. For instance, he told me that McCarthy wore a purple and teal suit. Sound weird, I know, but turns out to be legit. Just look at the picture.
That was pretty sweet gossip, but it gets even better. After Fan Fest, Tanker wound up at Anduzzi's where Ted Thompson and some other suits (not nec. purple/teal) were gnawing on wings. Tanker tells me that he overheard Thompson, rather tipsy off whiskey/diets, say, "We need bush." Take that for whatever it's worth, but isn't it rather interesting that the Packers officially signed CB Jarrett Bush to a 3-year deal Monday? Hmmm? Thanks for the scoop, Tanker. It's good to have guys like you on the front lines.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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Interesting move.ReplyDelete
I find this very interesting considering they cut their top special teams player mid-season last year. You'd think if they valued special teamers as much as this deal indicates, they would have kept the Special Teams' Man-God, Tracy White.
I'm thinking that TT wanted to resign him all along, contacted the GM of the Titans (his good buddy), convinced him to offer a deal on TT's terms, and then matched it, so he could claim Bush has value and other teams were interested.
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Without a shadow of a doubt, working as a doctor can be incredibly stressful. There have been times during or after emergencies when I've been close to losing it completely but, more insidiously, there's an undercurrent of stress that all doctors have to cope with. How we cope with this is something that is hardly ever spoken about at work, or even outside work. I think there is something quite fundamentally challenging about the environment we doctors have to work in and I'll try and explain why.
As individuals, people who apply to medical school are very comfortable and happy with health and healthy people. We see good health as being important and something to strive for. Part of the reason we go to medical school in the first place is because we want to help other people achieve the good health that we see as being so important. It's not a great leap of logic to assume that someone like Slobodan Milosevic wouldn't have been interested in applying to medical school. So, it follows that the people who apply to medical school are at ease and are comfortable in environments where people are healthy.
As a doctor, you are put in an environment where people are not healthy. You have to work every day in hospitals and hospitals are full of ill people. In other words, you spend the majority of your time in an environment that is the direct opposite to the one in which you feel most comfortable. At any given time, the sickest people in the whole region are right there in your workplace. You're in an environment when people are so ill that they die. They die every day. You try and help, you try as hard as you can, but they still die. They still die every day. For a person who is most comfortable among the healthy, this sort of environment automatically causes stress. Sometimes great amounts of stress, sometimes so much stress that the doctor can't cope and ends up having a breakdown or even committing suicide.
Which brings me back to the point of the article – how do we cope? Why don't all doctors kill themselves? Why do the majority of my medical colleagues honestly tell me that they "enjoy their job?"
It starts in medical school. During your journey through medical school, you learn a hell of a lot of stuff. Medical students will be able to tell you what the sartorious muscle does, why we always sniff when we cry, how to spot cancerous cell down a microscope, at what gestational age the foetal heart beats for the first time, and so on and so on… but I'm now realising that one of the most important things you learn as an undergraduate is how to cope with the hospital environment. You learn how to cope with disease, how to cope with death and, more fundamentally, how to cope with the stress that disease and death will cause to you. You're introduced to the hospital in a very measured way and, even though we don't realise it at that stage, it's at medical school that we learn our coping mechanisms.
But how we cope is not really tested until we become doctors.
Before I started working, I would try and be conscienscious and I'd spend lots of time in the hospital, but at the back of my mind, I knew that I could leave at any time. If I felt unwell I could leave, if I felt tired I could go home and everything would be just fine without me. The patients didn't need me, their relatives didn't need me, the hospital staff didn't need me and I knew that I wouldn't really be missed if I wasn't there.
That all changed on my first shift as a doctor. Suddenly, the responsibility was mine. I inherited 25 patients to look after and I had to cope with the fear, the anxiety, and responsibility of trying as best I could to make them all better and get them home. And try I did, but here's the thing – the work never ends. One patient gets well enough to leave and within minutes, there'll be a new patient in the bed that's just been vacated. A whole new person with a whole new set of problems for me to try and remedy and the whole cycle starts again. And this happens again and again ad infinitum.
What I'm trying to get across is that those coping mechanisms that we develop in med school get tested to destruction when we become doctors. Some people's coping mechanisms stand up, others' don't and people have to try and find new ways of coping. I've scratched my head a bit and I'm going to try and write about some of the ways that doctors cope with stress.
Working harder
From what I've seen, this is the most common one by far. I've already mentioned that your work as a doctor never actually stops. There's always another patient to clerk, another blood test to do, another X-ray to review, another letter to write, another audit to complete, another relative to talk to, another referral to make, the list goes on and on and on. You really can bury yourself in your work to the point that it seems like nothing else matters.
Dr X will say, "I can't possibly go home yet, I have another four sets of blood tests to do, and repeat Mr Brown's ABG and make sure everything is prepared for tomorrow's consultant ward-round…" However, if you scratch the surface a little, you'll find that the real reason that Dr X is still at work four hours after her shift finished is that Dr X finds NOT working far more stressful than working. You see, when you're at work, you don't have time to feel stressed because there's so much more stuff to get done. At home on your own though… well that's another story. So Dr X works harder and harder and harder so she doesn't have to face up to her own thoughts and stresses.
I'm guessing that this sort of thing was more common in the days when junior doctors had to work all day and all night every day and every night, but it's still very common now in 2009.
Ever wondered why at university medical students seemed to hang out only with other medical students? We just didn't seem to mix as much with other students did we? It's partly due to the (relative) intensity of the degree we chose to study, but more importantly it's that we automatically had a common bond with each other. We had a shared set of experiences that only other medical students could understand, because they were there too. I remember when I was a Fresher and I told a history student that I had to dissect a real, dead person as part of my studies. He was fascinated (and a little grossed out), but he didn't really understand what it felt like because he wasn't there. I tried to share with him that I had a nagging feeling that cutting this man's neck apart was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG because, he was alive once. I tried to tell him that I imagined what he would have been like when he was alive (Jovial? Stupid? Intelligent? Funny? Rich? Poor?) and I had such a massive amount of respect that he'd let me do this to his body after death. But he didn't get it, he couldn't get past the part that I "actually cut his neck open – gross!" so I gave up.
This clubbing together of medics doesn't change after we graduate, if anything, it becomes more marked. Most of my good friends are doctors and it really helps having someone to talk to who's been through the same experiences. Not only that, you also work with much more senior doctors and nurses who've been through it all before, you have role models and people you idolise and this all helps you make sense and cope with events going on around you.
Friends and family
"Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil." There can be no doubt that having a faith and a strong belief that there is more to the world than the (sometimes truly horrific) things we see before us helps doctors cope with what they have to do.
If you work in a hospital for any length of time, you'll become aware of a strong undercurrent of sexuality with the staff. It's been there at every hospital I've worked. Sometimes it's understated, but often it's explicit. There's lots of flirting, lots of "complementing," and, if you want it, there's lots of shagging. I doubt many would admit it but often, this is a coping mechanism. After all it's much easier to motivate yourself to go to work if you know that a certain medical house officer will be there isn't it? And it's much easier to get through the day with thoughts of what the said house officer was doing to you last night running through your head…
Everyone I know has done this, myself included. We've all come home and said "I've had a REALLY REALLY shitty day at work, come on, we're going out and I am going to get SMASHED. I want to be so off my face that I can't see…"
And we've gone out and got totally of our faces.
In and of itself, I don't think that this isn't really a big problem, but the thing about alcohol is that it can become incredibly destructive. What started out as a big session once in a blue moon after a particularly shitty week turns into going out every weekend and getting blasted. But you're not doing it because it's fun, you're not doing it to have a good time, in fact, you don't actually enjoy getting drunk at all, you're just doing it because when you're drunk, you can forget about the hospital and how being in the hospital makes you feel. Then you find yourself drinking routinely everyday after work, slowly drinking more and more each evening. Then you suddenly find that you can't get through the day without a drink… At this point your work colleagues start talking about you and how you smell of gin half way through the morning…
Alcohol is insidious, I wouldn't really call it a "coping strategy" but I'd predict that the vast majority of doctors lie somewhere along the scale that starts with "getting drunk to forget once in a blue moon" and ends with "being an alcoholic."
Doctors doing drugs is a huge taboo, but we know it goes on. The reasons are pretty similar to those outlined above for alcohol. Remember that doctors know more about the drugs they are taking than your average man on the street, we have much more access to uncontaminated drugs, we know what their side-effects are and we know how to hide them.
Other activities
One of the thing I've noticed in my career so far is that as junior doctors' working hours have reduced (currently, a junior doc will work an average of between 44 and 60 hrs every week), doctors are taking more opportunity to "get away from it all." Doctors now have more time to develop hobbies, be that sports, hiking, travelling, music, painting, charity work, it seems to me that the general chit-chat among doctors isn't as focused on medicine as it used to be and I believe this is the result of more of having a life outside work.
I appreciate that this post has become very long and really, I'm just jotting down my own personal observations and thoughts but, like I said, how we actually cope with what we have to do is not something that gets spoken about very often.


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My kids love dry erase activities and these mats were fast to make and they both enjoyed creating with them. They would be perfect for wiggly kids at the Thanksgiving dinner table before pie is served or on the long road trip to Grandma's . With both the dinner plate and Mayflower scenes you can use different prompts and questions to extend the drawing. I have included suggestions below in the tutorial.
- Gather your materials. You will need some inexpensive canvases or another hard board for a backing, some construction paper , double stick tape, scissors and contact paper. For the Thanksgiving dinner mat I used the plate and fork from Melissa & Doug's Make-A-Meal Sticker Pad because it's just so cute and we'd been playing with it earlier so it was fresh in my mind.
- For the Mayflower mat start by cutting out a boat. I could have sworn I had brown paper but no, so I colored some white brown with a marker. Cut some sails, and land as well.
- Piece together and secure on a sheet of blue paper with double stick tape.
- Cover with contact paper.
- For the Thanksgiving dinner mat cut out the plate and fork and tape to a sheet of construction paper.
- Cover with contact paper.
- Time to create. I handed my son the Mayflower one and asked a few questions . " How do you think you would feel seeing land for the first time after such a long journey?" " What would you pack if you were leaving your home forever?" " How do you think the Native Americans felt when they saw the huge ship?"
- My daughter joined us and started creating her Thanksgiving dinner. I asked her " What would you like for Thanksgiving?" I got a big old " Candy!" as the response. She drew spaghetti and ice cream. With older children you could divide the plate up and ask them to draw foods from each food group, draw a silly Thanksgiving with just their favorite foods or what they usually have at Thanksgiving and talk about traditions.
- They happily created and erased over and over. We use socks that can't find their mates for erasers.
I have had a hard time over them years finding Thanksgiving books that I felt were fun and educational. These books however fit the bill and are sure to work at your house too. Click through for full reviews of these books and a couple other Thanksgiving favorites.