We had no choice in becoming the “crazy” family that left a hospital against medical advice. Our four-day-old daughter was completely helpless,…
Critical Care
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Multiple strokes, respiratory failure. Cardiac arrest — twice. At first glance, I thought that I was reading the medical chart of an…
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Death is on our floor. It has been there for far longer than I have. On my first day in the cardiac…
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A recent sports injury required me to have surgery. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, my experience as “the patient” reminded me of lessons-learned…
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It’s 2:02 p.m. when my pager beeps. I pull it out and read: “Juan may have just passed. Going in now.” As…
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Lines are slowly being taken out of the small infant, his bruised and discolored arms continuing to ooze. Machines and circuits, one…
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We physicians stand witness to countless tragedies in our careers. At some point, as we stand by the bedside of a dying…
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This week I had some particularly emotionally tough cases at work, and it got me thinking about life in general and how,…