My medical school tenure was bookended by news of loss. In the early days, when I spent my time in a lecture hall, I listened to somber faculty announce that a resident had died by suicide. I remember sitting near the back of the room because I had come in late, and while the administration’s […]
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Match Day
The open air was electric with anticipation. My entire med school class had set up camping chairs around a stage erected in the husk of an old drive-in movie theater and each family huddled around their medical student as they frantically refreshed their emails. Up on stage, one of our medical school Deans was extemporizing […]
Emotional Triage
Triage is the act of assigning degrees of urgency to patients or situations, and at each stage of medical school this has consistently been an important skill to master. In my first two years, this involved learning specific groups of facts, in my third, this expanded to clinical care, and in my fourth-year, began to […]
