Ep 9 Show Notes
Stacy references George Clooney's eventful summer. You can see the AFI Life Achievement interview where he talks about ER's importance to his career here. And you can read about his terrifying motor scooter vs car crash in a lot of places, but this article from motorcycle magazine Rider is my favorite because the headline asks, "Did a Motorcycle Helmet Just Save George Clooney's Life?" (Spoiler alert: It probably did save his life, or at the very least save him from serious head trauma.) Be like George Clooney! Always wear a helmet when riding your bicycle/scooter/motorcycle/etc!
Carrie says that Mark and Jennifer Greene's disintegrating marriage is displaying all of Gottman's Four Horsemen. For those not familiar with Gottman's research, these are four ways of communicating (or not communicating) which often presage the end of a relationship: criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling. You can read more at the link above.
We talk a lot in this episode about Tatiana, a little girl with AIDS whom nurse Carol Hathaway wants to adopt. Carrie wishes that she had pediatric Hospice care available to her. You can read about pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care in this article from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
In regards to several of the patients and families we see in these episodes, Stacy and Carrie mention complicated grief, also known as complex bereavement disorder. You can read more about it from the Mayo Clinic at the link above.
In "The Birthday Party," we see the tragedy of a young boy finding his father's gun and accidentally shooting his brother. Sadly, this is something that we as chaplains have seen in our hospitals in real life, and it's a very preventable occurrence. Please read the articles below for more on keeping kids safe from guns in the home.
"Guns Within Reach" from Parents magazine
"Child Access Prevention" from Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
"Are You Talking to Parents About Keeping Guns Away from Children?" from Psychology Benefits Society
When Doug Ross shames the mother whose son is malnourished, Carrie makes reference to "toxic charity." This concept is from the book of the same name, Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It) by urban activist Robert Lupton.
Near the end of this episode, Stacy and Carrie share the great impact that a short reframing of one of Jesus's parables had on their lives. It appears that Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner's "The Self-Differentiated Samaritan" is not available anywhere for free online, but her essay is part of the book Images of Pastoral Care and is well worth the price of the book alone (though there's some other good stuff in there as well).