How can you work for 24 hours in a row? My friends outside of medicine ask me that often. What is it…
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I know what you’re thinking: She’s cold-hearted, cruel, and unkind. But am I? Or are you? Grandma Lilly is 87-years-old and in…
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Treating the patient’s body is not synonymous with treating the patient
by Steven Zhang December 16, 2018We recently had a patient who arrived on our service in the intensive care unit after a complicated surgery. The surgery left…
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I recently read an article entitled “The family said, ‘Do everything.’” It described the case of an elderly patient at the end-stage…
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The stethoscope. Nothings says “I’m a doctor” more than the stethoscope in a pocket or draped around the neck. Forty-five years ago…
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Your greatest role as a doctor? Storyteller.
by Giannina L. Garces-Ambrossi Muncey MD October 25, 2018There are medical honors so rare you don’t even know they exist. When you’re trudging through the slog of PBK/AOA/other — ultimately…
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Have you ever felt so cold? I mean bone-chilling cold. I don’t mean the same kind of cold that northern winters can…
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May lay in a hospital bed, her wrinkled skin covered with sensors that monitored her every breath and heartbeat. Her husband sat…