We Need You
By Arne Vainio, MD He wasn’t my patient, but he told his mother he was having suicidal thoughts and he needed to be seen right away. He had been started on an antidepressant by someone else a few weeks earlier and the new medicine made him feel better for a while, then he started having […]
By Arne Vainio, MD I was at a two day medical conference a few weeks ago getting caught up on my continuing education credits. Some of these can be done online, but some are required to be done in a group setting. I was in a group with a geneticist and we discussed the inherited […]
I thought I had more time
By Arne Vainio, MD He looked so much older since Donnie died. A year earlier I saw them together hauling wood and they were drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes in the cab of Brian’s old pickup truck. We never talked about happiness. They swore at each other, and they swore at their chain saws, and […]
I wish things could have been different between us
By Arne Vainio, MD I had just finally been able to go to sleep when my pager went off. I knew the phone number all too well and was soon heading in for a delivery at 4:00 AM. Things didn’t go exactly like they were supposed to and after several hours I consulted the OB […]