by Jeremy Topin | Mar 4, 2014 | Balance
I remember sixteen years ago… Your first night on this earth. Your first night in my life. Swaddled up and cradled in my arms, I walked the quiet empty hospital hallways for what seemed like hours. My thoughts racing, disorganized from exhaustion but fueled by...
by Jeremy Topin | Feb 19, 2014 | Balance
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”–Richard Bach It’s has been a bit since I last wrote, but events over the last few days have pulled me back tonight and has...
by Jeremy Topin | Nov 25, 2013 | Balance
My chest is heaving. The air I rapidly suck into my lungs does not seem to be adequate as I immediately gasp for another breath. My heart is pounding, trying to escape the confines of the sternum that lies over it. The waves of nausea are somewhat overshadowed by a...
by Jeremy Topin | Nov 18, 2013 | Balance
There are times when I get a bit more reflective. Often later in the evening, with a cup of coffee in hand after a long day at work. I come home to a quiet house, the family still out and about somewhere. I plop down on the couch and as I drift into that place...
by Jeremy Topin | Oct 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
I knew the moment when my career in pediatrics was over. I was in the fourth year of my med-peds residency, taking overnight call in the pediatric ICU. Nights were busy, stressful and I was alone. A young boy came in as a pediatric motor vehicle trauma,...
