Stories: Patient Interaction

To a young man, I left school after morning classes were finished and arrived home expecting to take a short […] Read More

Standing in front of the Grady Hospital entrance on my first day of volunteering, I looked up at the sky […] Read More

As I reflect back on the last four years of medical school, I am reminded of the ghosts of patients […] Read More

In most any discipline, the adage of “practice makes perfect” holds true and medicine is no exception. Doctors rely on […] Read More

Frazzled and exhausted by another ten-hour day at the end of our second week of medical school, the two of […] Read More

On a typically balmy autumn afternoon in Baltimore City, Mr. S could barely breathe. Throughout the prior week, he had […] Read More

I was spending the day in the Emergency Department of a community hospital. Though it was a small department with […] Read More

I wish I could tell you a story about fancy heroics – about an exploratory laparatomy, a chest thoracostomy, or […] Read More

Through the International-Inner City-Rural Preceptorship (I2CRP) Honors Program at my school, I have had the unique opportunity to help provide […] Read More

Photo Credit: Wikipedia I spent Thanksgiving evening on the floor of my mother’s one bedroom apartment, carving out pieces of […] Read More

She’s well into middle age*, but appears just days older than 40. Her eyes are sunken, tearful, worried, anxious. She […] Read More

I walk – coffee and census in hand – to my patient’s room. I never met her, so I begin […] Read More