Ryan Mccarthy

3 weeks ago | kevinmd.com | Ryan Velandria McCarthy |Ryan Mccarthy |Leonard Wang |Denise Reich |Michael McGuire

“I will catch you on the flip side,” I said these words as I planted a kiss on Laura’s clammy forehead. I instinctively knew this would be the last time I spoke with her. I walked around the foot of her hospital bed to Sherry and told her not to get up as I bent over and gave her a big hug, the kind where I buried my face in her sweater. I smelled her laundry detergent, and she cried and shook in my arms.

Aug 13, 2024 | 100daysinappalachia.com | Ryan McCarthy |Ryan Mccarthy

Recovery from addiction is possible. For help, please call the free and confidential treatment referral hotline (1-800-662-HELP) or visit findtreatment.gov. Alesia Brand is a therapist at the WVU Crisis Support and Recovery Center, located in downtown Martinsburg, West Virginia. She works 10 hour shifts, where she spends most of her time facilitating group therapy and educating her patients on the effects of substance use disorder.

Jun 29, 2024 | wvgazettemail.com | Ryan McCarthy |Ryan Mccarthy

In the 1990s when I started medical school, nobody warned me how my job was going to hurt me emotionally. Maybe it’s better they didn’t, as I might have been scared away. I must admit, there were a few omens I foolishly ignored early on. Still, I could not have dreamed that one day, like a human rain barrel, I would become a repository for an Appalachian avalanche of pain and suffering.

Jun 25, 2024 | 100daysinappalachia.com | Ryan McCarthy |Ryan Mccarthy

In the 1990s when I started medical school, nobody warned me how my job was going to hurt me emotionally. Maybe it’s better they didn’t, as I might have been scared away. I must admit, there were a few omens I foolishly ignored early on. Still, I could not have dreamed that one day, like a human rain barrel, I would become a repository for an Appalachian avalanche of pain and suffering.