Oh, Larry, I hurried over to the hospital as soon as I heard. It’s so good to see you!” Larry turned his head and squinted at the visitor. Before he could smile, a fit of coughing overtook him. “You don’t have to say anything, you need to rest. Do you want me to get you some water?” […]
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I was one of them just two weeks ago, he thought as the interns approached him. They think I know what I’m doing just because I’m the senior resident. His interns had admitted ten patients that night. They did the best that they could, but often needed his help. And then there were the two […]
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I am nearly through Gayle Greene’s book, Insomniac, which is part memoir, part science writing, about insomnia. Greene identifies her target audience in the first chapter: people who experience insomnia, physicians and others who treat people with insomnia, and people who conduct research on insomnia. As such, those who are not in her target audience […]
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I believe patients are the best teachers in medicine. As an intern, I told a patient one morning that I would visit him later in the day. Various tasks yanked me throughout the hospital as the hours passed. While packing my bag to leave for the day, I remembered what I had said to him. […]
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