A mentor from college, only five or so miles from the hospital, recently gave birth to her second child. She told me about her surprise when another alumnus who had graduated a few years before me and is now an OB/GYN resident helped deliver her baby. “They asked me if it would be okay if […]
When Lectures and Real Life Intersect
Last July while helping with the orientation clerkship for third year students, I experienced two first time seizures. I don’t remember much from the day, but I do remember the confusion I felt when I woke up in the hospital’s emergency department, a mere five minute walk from the classrooms in which I spent so […]
A Patient Patient
“My parents abandoned me when I was five years old.” I listened intently, trying not to show the shock on my face, as the woman, about twice my age and sporting an edgy variation of a mohawk continued on. She had been drinking since her parents fed her beer in her baby bottle. She had […]
