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MD, HB: Medical Doctor, Human Being

I was spending the day in the Emergency Department of a community hospital. Though it was a small department with just one doctor and two nurses, it got so busy at one point in the day that the doctor...

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Shortness of Breath, Again

On a typically balmy autumn afternoon in Baltimore City, Mr. S could barely breathe. Throughout the prior week, he had developed worsening cough and severe shortness of breath. His symptoms progressed...

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My “Why Healthcare” Moment

Standing in front of the Grady Hospital entrance on my first day of volunteering, I looked up at the sky and prayed, “God, please give me a sign that healthcare might be the thing that I am meant to...

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The First Encounter

It was the second week of my volunteering in the Emergency Department. After a long week of classes, I’d drive over to one of the local hospitals on Thursday nights and escape the world of academia. To...

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The VIP

I was a first-year medical student observer at the cancer center shadowing overnight during my winter break. It was 4:00a.m. and I was on my third cup of coffee and my second of tea. Although I had...

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Doctoring

April 15, 2016 This week marks the end of my first-year “Doctoring” clinical skills course at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. As part of the course, we were assigned to community...

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The Physician’s Pen

Becoming a medical scribe for an Emergency Physician has taught me more about medicine, about passion, and most importantly about the patient, than ever before. I applied to this position online after...

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Tangible Meanings

I remember walking into my freshman orientation at Boston College (BC) anxious about what the next four years meant for my future career. As I sat listening to the introduction, the speaker proclaimed...

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Trauma Bay One

It was a warm and sunny late spring day. A comfortable 73 degrees, the birds were chirping their harmonious chorus while the flowers blossomed in vibrant yellows and violets. Yet today, of all days, I...

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Humanism in Medicine

When did it become okay to look the other way, cut corners or treat people like a commodity? Never in my opinion, but the pressures of clinical practice sometimes force physicians into feeling that...

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