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6 Minute Read-Intern Year Day 70: There is a particular patient I remember more vividly than most. We’ll call him Mr. K. He was a dark brown man in his early fifties, his thick beard speckled with silver hairs. He had a heart warming smile. His wife was at his bedside every single time I …
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7 Minute Read-Intern Year Day 45: “You are the most phenomenal doctor,” a patient’s sister exclaimed, as she hugged me. It was my first day seeing Mr. C, a 60-something-year-old gentleman admitted after a fall at home. Since being in the hospital, he had been confused on-and-off, resorting to actions such as calling 911 from …
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7 Minute Read-Intern Year, Day 30: "My dad isn't taking that f*cking medicine!" I looked up from my computer screen to see a frazzled nurse walk as quickly as she could out of a patient's room, exasperation splayed across her usually friendly face. "She is impossible," the nurse sighed. "I'm done. If he doesn't want …
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4 Minute Read-Intern Year, Day One: I’m not sure what I expected. Over the last three months since Match Day, I had binge watched seasons one through eleven of Grey’s Anatomy, but I figured that depiction was too dramatic. I was nervous, but expectedly so, since I had been assigned placement in the medical intensive …
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