Each paragraph of this narrative is inspired by a separate patient story from my last three months of neurosurgery rotations. Each paragraph ends with something…
2:14 pm. “Why don’t you just get on out of here for the day, good job this week.” Taken slightly off-guard, I packed up my…
During my Internal Medicine rotation, I cared for a Latinx patient with end stage renal disease. He had made all the recommended lifestyle changes and was…
Two Poems The Other Room “They’re doing compressions!” I heard ring through the hall.I was with a frail, elderly, demented woman though. She’d fallen, hit her…
Death. We say the word and instantly shudder. It is something our subconscious has decided to suppress from our mind. We constantly fight death – outsmarting it with medications…
Recently, I have had thought-provoking discussions with fellow classmates about being introverted. Some physicians advise students to “become more extroverted,” which is easier said than…
We are all in medical school because of other people; not one of us made it here without relying on a support system. My family…
Last week, many of my classmates were posting “last day of school” photos as we completed our final classes of medical school, often captioning them…
Yesterday I ran. I stepped outside into the blue sky and I fled, needing to feel my lungs burn. There were daffodils dancing and children…
These past few months have been an unprecedented time of social and economic upheaval. For many of us, the effects of the pandemic have been…