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Transitioning from nights to days
Can’t Touch My Face
“Hold the retractor and don’t move!”
4th Year Dissonance
Starting a new rotation during 4th year. I have 3
L/D
Our attending steps out to shrill alarms and shouting
Sig-e-caps
The morning I found out
Critical Access, A Critical Role
Welcome to rural Utah; we’re a critical access hospital,
Painting Catatonia Pink
We wait silently
A Comedy of Clumsy
Residents at the podium, presenting patients, even
Morbidity & Mortality Conference
Residents at the podium, presenting patients, even
Graduated Autonomy
One of the reasons why I loved OBGYN was because I
I: The Former Poet
almost forgot I was a poet
II: The Former Journalist
almost forgot I was a journalist
“Nonverbal”
Words on one side,
Trees
“Are you feeling okay, buddy?”
Perspective
Heart failure, new
You Deserve Care
My first patient death
A diagnosis, all too familiar.
A diagnosis that defined her as a patient but could
Always Worth the Communication
The staff was quieter than normal for a pediatric case
Nama-stay
Big surgery, long hospital stay
Viable
They both came from big families
I Can Do This For A Living
Oncology, another clinical rotation.
2023 | Voices from the Wards, Back Inside
Back inside art, “Back Up”
2023 | Voices from the Wards, Back Cover
Back cover art, “Cotton Candy”
Volume 4 | 2022 Voices from the Wards
Table of contents
2022 | Voices from the Wards, Introduction
We are proud to present this collection of 55-word stories written by the University of Utah School of Medicine Class of 2022