From Paradise to Medical Emergency: A Bahamas Nightmare Turns Lesson Learned

Paradise found, but medical emergencies while cruising in the Out Islands of the Bahamas can be complicated. Beekman Pictures/shutterstock.com

In my mind, a two-line power-pop lyric from the Hold Steady’s 2006 album Boys and Girls in America —“It started recreational, ended kind of medical”—played and replayed in an unbroken loop through several of the eight days that I lay confined in a bed at Doctors Hospital, Nassau, Bahamas.

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