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5 Minute Read“Are you sure you’re OK, Mr. Crew?” Abi asked her clinic patient. His eyes drifted towards her slowly shifting hands. Under his gaze, she became acutely aware that she was picking the cuticles of her nails, as she often did. She quickly dropped her hands to her sides. “Uh…” he glanced at his …
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7 Minute Read - “Come on, Tewa, let’s go… LET’S GO!” I said to hype myself up, frantically pulling raisin bread out of the toaster oven and grabbing an apple from the fridge. It was 6:15 AM and I was leaving the house JUST ON TIME to beat traffic on the way to work that …
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8 Minute Read “OYA! BABY GIVE ME LOVE OOOOOOOOO…” Ayobami sang loudly along with the tunes spewing from his car speakers, bobbing his head up and down. It made him happy to listen to Afrobeat music while he drove. He continued to hum as he pulled into the hospital parking lot. Ayobami was a brand …
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7 Minute Read-Intern Year: “Girl, medicine is messing with my love life!” Asha said to me with a sigh. It was early afternoon, and we were writing notes in our windowless team room. It was a call day, meaning that our team was in charge of admitting new patients to the hospital, and we would …
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THE ANTIBODY: A super short story series. Teeny-tiny anti-anxiety laughs for tough times. *EPISODE 5* 2 minute read: “So, Dr. Seale, what do you think we should do for Mr. Wheeler?” asked the attending surgeon as he looked at Lauren expectantly. She took a deep breath before responding, “I think we’ll need to amputate his …
THE ANTIBODY: A super short story series. Teeny-tiny anti-anxiety laughs for tough times. *EPISODE 4* 2 minute read: “Dr. Stewart! Your patient is starting to wake up,” Kathy called out to James. She was one of the nurses in the PACU (post-anesthesia care unit), where patients go to recover from anesthesia after a surgery. “Perfect timing; …
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THE ANTIBODY: A super short story series. Teeny-tiny anti-anxiety laughs for tough times. *EPISODE 3* 3 minute read “Forty-five year old man with acute abdominal pain…. Oyetewa, do you want to take this new patient?” the resident asked me. “Yes, of course!” I said with my best fake smile. As though I have a choice. I …
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THE ANTIBODY: A super short story series. Teeny-tiny anti-anxiety laughs for tough times. *EPISODE 2* 2 minute read “Can you hurry UP,” my patient growled at me after I asked her a question. Fully clothed, she lay stiffly on the hospital bed, after coming to the emergency department a few hours prior for abdominal pain …
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THE ANTIBODY: A super short story series. Teeny-tiny anti-anxiety laughs for tough times. *EPISODE 1* 2 minute read: “HOLD THE ELEVATOR!” Earl shouted, walking faster. Rushing was just a way of life for a resident; there was always something he needed to do. The doors were almost shut when a pearl-bracelet-donning arm shot through them …
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