In every hospital emergency department there is a room reserved for trauma. It is a place where life and death meet. A place where some families celebrate the most improbable of victories while others…
In More Letters From The Pit, a sequel to the popular Letters From The Pit, I share how, over the course of my career, I considered the roles that fate, destiny, and karma seem to play in our lives. M…
From touching moments that make your day, to gut-wrenching feelings of hopelessness, the very worst that humanity has to offer, things that make you smile and things that make you vomit.
“She screams and whips her head back, spraying sweat from her hair on the back wall, as I gently pull the child’s body to the side and the head comes free. The mother lets out a heavy sigh and cries g…
John's medical memoir was born from chaotic, disjointed, funny and frightening late-night letters to friends over email (any recipients of which all those years ago will likely walk away now). Those m…
CODE 4: True stories from a 37-year police veteran
You step into a doorway to see a man levelling a shotgun at your chestYou hold a dying child in your armsYou crawl into a mangled car to help someone trapped and bleedingThese are a small sampling of …
Welcome. Welcome to laughing until it hurts while covered in bodily fluids. Welcome to simple math at very high stakes. Welcome to an incredibly inappropriate sense of humor. Welcome to serving people…
