A few weeks ago, my wife and I spent our Friday night waiting for test results in a cold exam room that reeked of ammonia. In a kennel at our feet, Jixie, our oldest cat, meowed pitifully and licked the wounds of a fresh blood draw. We were both worried and neither of us felt […]
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5 Better Ways to Say “I Don’t Know”
As a medical student, you will spend most of your time drinking from a firehose of knowledge, and when pimped there is a strong chance that you won’t know the answer. Your attendings were all once medical students, so they will understand the occasional lapse, but even so, they may get annoyed if the answer […]
Something We Don’t Talk About
Everybody in medical school has the same secret. It’s something we never talk about. Something so intensely personal that we can barely even tell our closest friends. It eats at us like a purulent mass—we feel the pressure of it daily and somehow we know that the only way to be free of it is […]
