Nerdnote #58: What's in a name? or, a Chinese-American's reflections on being a Doctor of Oriental Medicine

The words that we use to describe ourselves are important. Here and now, we are finally beginning to honor the right to choose these words. However, in my professional life, I find unmanageable labels applied to my highest achievements.

Nerdnote #34: on grief
written August 17, 2017

I've been thinking about grief lately, watching it unfold in one of my patients eerily mirroring my own experience, and wondering why nobody's written about the way it runs its course, like a fever or an injury.

I wish I had kept better records of my own process, ennumerate the things I wish I'd known.

Nerdnote #2: On Dreaming (from Suwen 80, Lingshu 43/80)
sent on October 19, 2015

Hi Margaret,

Here’s an alphabetical list of Nei Jing references to dreams that I compiled on November 4, 2014. I’ll try to get you an actual translation (Amy-style, beware incoming whimsical approximations! :p) soon.