the Anywhere Clinic

excerpt from an email to a patient:

You can work on slow breathing. I mean really slow, smooth, and relaxed, like you're sipping sweet air through a straw that's the very back of your airways to fill up your lungs from the bottom to the top. I can get down to 2 breaths a minute (15 seconds inhale, 15 seconds exhale) but you can start by timing yourself breathing normally and try to cut that down by half. For example, if you breathe 12 breaths a ...

I had lunch with a stranger today.

She asked me for money as I decided to have Thai for lunch, so I invited her to eat with me. This is how I differentiate between those who are panhandling for drug money and those who are actually hungry. This one came in and sat with me, ordered stuffed chicken wings and shrimp fried rice to go. She had an appointment at noon at Highland Hospital to pick up medication for diabetes. We made polite conversation over ...