Within a Day
She’s sweet, talkative, a great med student patient.
She’s sweet, talkative, a great med student patient.
them:
Guess I’m on the precipice of “success,”
In lab, I am known as “the guy who knows medicine.”
Transitioning from nights to days
“Hold the retractor and don’t move!”
Starting a new rotation during 4th year. I have 3
Our attending steps out to shrill alarms and shouting
The morning I found out
Welcome to rural Utah; we’re a critical access hospital,
We wait silently
Residents at the podium, presenting patients, even
Residents at the podium, presenting patients, even
One of the reasons why I loved OBGYN was because I
almost forgot I was a poet
almost forgot I was a journalist
Words on one side,
“Are you feeling okay, buddy?”
Heart failure, new
My first patient death
A diagnosis that defined her as a patient but could
The staff was quieter than normal for a pediatric case
Big surgery, long hospital stay
They both came from big families
Oncology, another clinical rotation.