Although I more or less like all little old ladies, there’s a certain subset of the genre that I love. The ones who are over 80 with the skinny bodies and the voices creaky like rocking chairs–they completely do me in.
When I go into their hospital rooms early in the mornings, I watch them for a moment before I [...]
Archive for September, 2006
Little old lady
September 26, 2006Community hospital
September 24, 2006
This month, I’m rotating through a small community hospital that is affiliated with the academic center where my residency program is based. For residencies based in well-staffed, well-resourced academic centers, the point of having their residents rotate through a community hospital is to expose them to the real world of medicine. A significant proportion of the hospitals in [...]
The switch
September 16, 2006“Is someone down?” asked T., who was driving. We were on our way back from an intern retreat day in the mountains, and while stopped at a traffic light, we had noticed a cluster of people standing in the oncoming lane of traffic. Looking out my door into the dark, I could make out three people looking down at a black [...]
Parts
September 7, 2006On my first day as a medical resident in clinic, one of the patients on my roster was listed as having a chief complaint of “genital rash.” No big deal, I thought to myself. I am a young, progressive, body-positive doctor. Everyone has genitals! I am unfazed by genitals! Let there be a genital jubilee in my [...]
