Julie Ann Margaret Connolly
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 2/9/2022
Are we ribbons?
Long-time Medical Post blogger Dr. Julie Connolly is wrapping up her blog. Here is her final installment. - 1/10/2022
Playground antics
If Darwin were here today, he might observe a certain resentment among other viruses at all the attention COVID-19 has managed to garner. - 11/24/2021
I am a coupon
More and more of my time is spent signing forms, ticking boxes, re-writing histories, generating ridiculous prescriptions so people can get stuff for free. - 11/15/2021
The need for doubt
- 9/21/2021
The bitter irony of a patient putting their doctor on mute
While most patients stop their lawnmowers, unplug the vacuum or at least pull their cars over during their appointments, Andre decided his drive-thru order was more pressing than talking to his family doctor. - 8/16/2021
Listening as the trees fall
Savary Island is an alternate realm for me and the many others who’ve discovered it. Surrounded by a continuous beach, tides rolling in and out, following the planet’s spin cycle. - 8/4/2021
When greed goes out of this world
Just as my mind was loosening from my usual office worries, trip planning, car packing, I found I wasn’t only white-knuckling the steering wheel for the passing semis. - 8/3/2021
When the prescription is obvious, but I can’t give it
It all went down pretty quickly six months ago, a jumble of events. She tries carefully to retrace them through tears, trying to convey the enormity of what happened in a 20-turned-40-minute appointment. - 7/4/2021
Portals: Magically transporting away from the here and the now
The only thing I wanted from my beloved grandmother as she was slowly untangling herself from this physical existence was her button jar.
