Boost your boost — Maybe you’ve had the fortunate experience of being boosted, maybe even more than once. If so, congrats! BTW — if you’re unfamiliar with the “boost” concept, it refers to Medium’s decision to more broadly distribute a story based on certain extra-fine characteristics it possesses. Boosts often result in significant extra…

Standing strong would have been the right thing to do — A Racist Prick and My Shameful Behavior Standing strong would have been the right thing to domedium.com

While dodging murder at the hands of a physician-in-training — For about 20 years of my three-decade Emergency Medicine career, I worked in so-called resident-run Emergency Departments (ED). In resident-run EDs, senior physicians like myself, provide supervision and bedside teaching to resident physicians and doctors in training. Lest you think that junior doctors are running amok in these places in…

Why? Because it’s there. —

Do unto others … and all that jazz — He sees that you’ve read his story. He also sees that you’ve clapped 50 times for it. Never mind the reason for the 50 claps. He sees them and feels them. He feels good about the validation, the support, your 50 claps provide. He wants to reciprocate. He seeks out…

But funny when it happened — It was like we shared the same bizarre sense of humor, Brian and I, not a bad thing for two ER Docs who often worked together. So when Brian asked me one day as Dr. B’hai walked through the Emergency Department (ED) “Hey Mike, what would you say to Dr…

Maybe I can jam this into Truth Social before that turd gets flushed — Surely you’ve noticed that the standards for what constitutes truth have recently slipped slightly. The new rule seems to be if you really! really! really! want something to be true it is. It just is. Wishing makes it so. …

I coulda been a contender — Since my writing hasn’t improved one iota in the years I’ve been on Medium, my old stuff is just as good as my new stuff, some of which has been boosted. And, there’s no easy way to make old stories new again, without a major rewrite that is, and that’s…

MAGA — Making Americans Grapple Again — GOP MAGAts and other fun types on the burgeoning alt-right cavalcade of stars have a long proud tradition of threatening behavior. Recently they’ve upped their game to include physical violence or its kissing cousin, the brah bluster. 💣 Kevin McCarthy made fellow Republiqan and House of Reprehensibles member, Tim “The…