Valerie Brooke, MD
How Italy and Celaena Sardothien Have Inspired Me
I had forgotten how old Europe is, like hundreds of years older than the US. One church we visited, the Duomo di Siena, took 300 years...
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Valerie Brooke, MD
Mar 278 min read
Scam 101
The phone call couldn’t have come at a worse time. It was the day before we left for our move to Alaska and the movers were shuffling...
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Valerie Brooke, MD
Feb 124 min read
The Human Impact of Hospital Closures
We all gathered around the nursing station in preparation for the last celebration of a patient discharging from the inpatient...
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Valerie Brooke, MD
Feb 15 min read
Things I Cannot Control
The universe or God or fate or just random unluckiness is teaching me about acceptance and control this week. I was sitting at a gate in...
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Valerie Brooke, MD
Jan 256 min read
Anyone medical on board?
I was fully immersed in a fantastic memoir, Angela’s Ashes, sitting in an aisle seat on my flight back from Wisconsin to Reno last...
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Valerie Brooke, MD
Jan 157 min read
Wind Chill
I finally got on a plane yesterday to return from Wisconsin back to my current home in Reno, NV. I spent the last 3 weeks doing a locum...
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Valerie Brooke, MD
Jan 34 min read
Locum What?
When I tell people I’m working as a locum tenens, most look at me with confusion, like I am speaking a foreign language. Which I am, as...
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Valerie Brooke, MD
Dec 26, 20235 min read
The Whistling Santa
Yesterday, on Christmas Day, I flew from my home in Reno, NV, to Minneapolis, MN, to start a new traveling physician job at a...
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Valerie Brooke, MD
Oct 30, 20233 min read
The Last Frontier
I grew up in the Green Mountain State (Vermont), lived for a short time as an adolescent in the Granite State (New Hampshire), and for my...
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Valerie Brooke, MD
May 26, 20214 min read
Pandemic Traveling and Gym Workouts
This past weekend I traveled via plane for the first time in two years, since before COVID-19 transformed my way of life and leisure. I...
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