The time a patient and his wife got into a fight – Abiโ€™s Story

5 Minute Readโ€œAre you sure youโ€™re OK, Mr. Crew?โ€ 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.  โ€œUhโ€ฆโ€ he glanced at his …

No. 12: My attending said Iโ€™m a waste of talent

5 Minute Read-Intern Year: โ€œOyetewa, please follow me to my office,โ€ my attending (aka my boss) said, her back already turned to me as she walked down the hallway. She was a 5โ€™2โ€ brown-skinned woman with long, jet black hair, and a persistently unsmiling face. I had been working with her for two weeks in …