My brother in law was a ER doc in Newark for one year. The experience traumatized him so badly that after his year was up he immediately packed his bags and escaped all the way across the country to Whidbey Island, a small island of the coast of Washington state. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200. He just whoosh, split. He now is a country doctor who does house calls and knows every patient by name. This is a guy who grew up in NYC and was a city boy through and through. And he still doesn't talk about the time he spent in that ER.
@Kobayashi Maru: OK: I just want to add something in here, on behalf of everyone working in hospitals everywhere. I grew up in NYC, now work in a hospital in CA, and let me just say every time we get a NYer or NJer thru here, boy can you fucking tell - and I'm not just talking poor black people here, this is across the board. you people need to TONE IT DOWN in the way you address hospital workers - they are not your servants. that is all.
@jburnaway: I grew up in Irvington, leaving in 1975 for college. When I drove from Florida to Vermont to live, my father told me that if I stopped in Irvington to see the old places (as I said I was), he wouldn't come to pick up the body. He was an Army Ranger in WWII. If he was frightened, I was too. Didn't stop in Irvington at all.
@labyrinthine IS DOING THIS: Oh, man. That one was ugly. Corrected. I guess I should note that I'm putting $5 in a bin for every typo I make on a Jewish holiday (that's caught by commenters). It's gonna go here:
@Foster Kamer: Sounds like a good cause.
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@DoctorJezebel: 20 years from now there will be no "Google" - only the mighty Omnigoog which will store the sum total of human knowledge and portion it out as it sees fit.
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I'll be posting the final tally on Young Manhattanite sometime Sunday night.
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there is a school of thought that says the thugs and dealers are the entrepreurs of the hood, denied other avenues, and probably the enterprising type, if steered and educated
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