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| User: | dr_teddy_bear (5706006) |
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| Name: | dr_teddy_bear | ||||
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| Bio: | Before me is a blank slate and it's up to me to fill it in. Part therapy, and part the pure need to express myself, I hope to turn the keystrokes of my computer into a web of stories to interest others. My twist? I'm an emergency doctor. No shit. Work in a real live ED (emergency department). It's great work, but at times you just get frustrated with your specie and wonder "Why the hell is this person here?" and "What the hell do they expect from me?". So my plan is to purge my brain of all the frustration after some of my longer shifts by logging in and blogging away. Let me set a few facts on the table. Fist, I love my job . . . I mean I LOVE it. It's rewarding on so many different levels, and always a challenge, NEVER boring. Second, I really try to be sympathetic to all my patients. I do my best to remain professional at all times. Even when I want to shout, I hold it in . . . until now. Now I have a journal to lay all my frustrations upon. Somewhere to let loose that primal scream I hold back at 3am when the local drunk shows up faking a seizure in the hopes of getting a bed for the night. Someplace where I can scream in print "Your sweet little 19 year old girl has gonorrhea . . . AGAIN!". Someplace where I can let loose all the terrible things my mind thinks about but can't be said during my 12 hour shifts. Let's start this off by getting acquainted a bit, shall we? In order to better understand my viewpoint on some of the stories I'll share here, you should know a few things about me. First of all, I work in what is known as an "under served area", which is a politically correct way of saying "Ghetto". Which is fine with me, after all, I grew up in a neighborhood very much like the one I now work in. I was raised in a lower-middle class family, went to the local public school where most of the other white kids were bussed in in order to meet the racial quotas. I spent 4 years enlisted in the military before ever starting college. I've been poor, and I've been well off - and well off is much better. I'm currently 40 years of age, and in a long term relationship with my husband of 7 years. Yes . . . I said HUSBAND. I'm a man, he's a man, it's not recognized by George W. Bush, but I have a husband. Are you getting the picture here??? 40 year old gay white doctor who has a blue collar background and works in the hood. Oh . . . and the "Dr Teddy Bear" part . . . they really do call that at work. I'm shaped sort of like a teddy bear ("Husky" I like to call it), I'm fairly furry, and I have a light hearted disposition - you'll almost always find me smiling. Welcome to my Journal - I hope you find it entertaining. | ||||
| Interests: | 6: (classic and sports) cars, cooking, home improvement, music, reading, theater | ||||
| Schools: | None listed | ||||
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| Member of: | 21: bears_and_cubs, bearsoup, bearz, bodhisattvas, bon_appetite, bookbears, buddhists, chubsnchasers, cook_4_2, cooking_is_art, cookinghealthy, culinarydelight, dailyom, emspeople, fatsex, gay_cooks, healthyrecipes, medical, medicalfield, taoistwisdom, tibetanbuddhism | ||||
| Account type: | Basic Account | ||||
