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The Directory Says She Takes This Plan and She Retired in 2021
A woman I was helping last year needed a specialist and her plan's directory listed fourteen in-network practices accepting new patients within twenty miles. She got through eleven of them over two…
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The Previous Reader Wrote No She Wouldn't in the Margin
I buy my copies secondhand, and not for the reason people assume, which is money; the reason is that a used book arrives with an argument already in progress. The copy of Middlemarch on my desk cos…
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The Software Was Right and the Line Was Down
The dashboard said the press was running at ninety-four percent utilisation. I was standing next to the press. It was not running.
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We Are Growing the Wrong Rice and Everybody in the Village Knows It
My uncle's field flooded in June, which is what it is for. It flooded again in the second week of August, which is not, and the second flood took the crop. He replanted. The replanting failed too, …
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Nobody in the Waiting Room Is Reading the Poster
The poster has been on the wall opposite the check-in desk in our Erie County clinic for three years. It explains, in two languages and a font somebody chose carefully, how to appeal a denied claim…
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The Sensor Works and the Siren Is Two Kilometres From the Houses
The lake sits at about forty-seven hundred metres behind a moraine dam, and the monitoring installation on it is good. Water level, seismic, a camera, telemetry over satellite because there is no o…
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She Was Not Non-Compliant, She Had Two Correct Instructions
The discharge packet was six pages. Page two said, in a box, HOLD warfarin until INR checked. Page five, in the medication list generated by a different system, said warfarin 5 mg, take one tablet …
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The School Was Built to Save the Language and It Has Forty Empty Desks
We had eleven children in class four this year. The room has fifty desks in it because it was built in 1974 for fifty children, by people who had carried the idea of a school out of Tibet along wit…
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The Real Work Instruction Was in a Notebook in His Toolbox
The official work instruction for that cell was eleven pages, laminated, in a binder on a stand beside the machine, revision F, dated 2014. The actual work instruction was a spiral notebook in the …
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The Quiet Mathematics of Us
We are not always roses, or sunsets painted gold; sometimes we are two tired souls arguing over something old. You steal the blanket, I steal the last bite, we disagree about everything then laugh before the night. Love is not
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