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...
View ArticleShortness 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...
View ArticleMy “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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleDoctoring
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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTangible 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...
View ArticleTrauma 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...
View ArticleHumanism 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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