Editor's note: this story contains scenes of incest or incest content. ***** From my visit downstate to Father's house over the Christmas holidays, I ended up taking my brother Josh, a recent law grad, back to capital land with me. I knew my first day back would be hectic. But first, I had to dispose of a problem, my brother Josh I had been saddled with...
As I watched the last patient hastily retrieve and pull up his underpants, I reflected on the events of the morning. It was quite an interesting time and totally satisfying. For the past four hours eight male employees paraded around in various states of undress not only in front of me while I examined them, but also in the presence of their female boss and...
When Marsha told me there was a 58 year-old married man on the phone looking for a new doctor I hesitated only momentarily. You see, as a 34-year old female MD, the vast majority of my patients are children and women. I can count on one hand the number of male patients I have had, and most were the sons of my female patients who came through every now and ag...
Many times I had thought I was crazy to return to college at age 40. This is the time of life when things are supposed to be getting better. But with the economy being what it is, and one lay off after another, I had been pushed to the point of “retooling” or rusting out. My wife had suggested nursing as an option. Her reasoning was with the nursing shortage...
Standing in line, I made my way to the podium where the professor was distributing last week's statistics midterm exams. My heart was beating fast. I just hoped I passed. I held my breath as I got to the front, and the professor handed me my test. Clutching the pages tightly to my chest I made my way to the back of the lecture hall. Once I was away from the...
It will always be that first touch that I remember most. His fingers grazing mine as we both reached for the study guide between us. The heat, the electricity. I crossed my bare legs under his dining room table, conscious of how close his leg was to my foot. I let my sandals slip from my feet as I tried to focus my mind on my lecture notes, once again draggi...
He really hated going in for his yearly physical. He had always hated doctors. But since he was to be the starting running back this year for the football team he needed his physical or they would not let him play. Sitting in the waiting room Harvey looked for something to keep his attention. There was nothing. Dejected he picked up the magazine from the low...
About a month after I started my senior year in high school I got this note to see Nurse Stallings right after school. I had swim practice that day, but the note seemed pretty insistent, so I showed up at exactly 3:30. The last time I was in the nurse's office was like two years ago, when I was 16, because I twisted my ankle running. There is an outer wait...
I landed a job as a programmer/analyst in the newly-formed financial research department of a large corporation. It happened pretty quickly, interviewing one week, offered the job the next week, and starting the week after that. They were advertising for all the positions at the same time and I was actually the first person they hired for the department beca...
My yearly physical was due and I had set up an appointment at my local PPO. I never know who I'm going to get doing the physical. It's a group practice and my doctor retired a couple of years ago. Since then, I haven't bothered to get a new primary doctor; I just see whoever's available when I need to make an appointment. It makes it a lot easier to be flexi...