Maria Yang MD

The chief complaint was belly pain. He described the pain as both dull and crampy. It came and went, but bothered him…

I didn’t know that he and I were on the same train. At the Othello stop, I got out of the last…

The nights from that time run together in my memory: The cuffs of my scrub pants getting caught on the heels of…

I don’t miss making the phone calls in the middle of the night. “Hi, this is Dr. Yang calling from the psychiatric…

To the intern on the trauma surgery service when I was a medical student: Thanks for occasionally wearing leather pants to work.…

I don’t remember her name, but I do remember her light brown hair, the simple nose ring that looped out of her…

You don’t have to like everyone under your care. And you probably won’t, which is OK. Own how you feel. If you…

Some of the people under my care in the jail right now are quite ill. (This statement is always true, but it…