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A lucid older man told me he wanted to die, tonight. It left me speechless. I had no words of comfort for him. As a patient, I let him down. I'm sorry, Richard.
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DNR pts make me sad
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I just helped turned an icu open heart patient with his chest still open. It was amazing!
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As I sit here at work pondering my future in medicine, I realized one thing: it's very easy for me to take for granted the current job that I have. It's not glorious, in fact, it can be pretty demeaning, but there are hidden perks throughout. In working today, I've seen numerous patients, whose maladies are unknown to me, but all share the ( Read more... ) -
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I got called in to work today, but so far, nothing interesting has happened. Instead, I'm studying for the MCAT. Did a little bit of hydrodynamics and hydrostatics for physics, but got my ass kicked in the practice problems. Instead, I'm moving on to Biology. -
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I wanna be a surgeon when I grow up, Part 4
One of the cool things about the laparascopic cholecystectomy was that it was, in fact, done all laparascopically. The first laparascopic surgery ended up resulting in complications and so they actually had to open up the pt. The entirety of this operation was only viewable on the monitors ( Read more... )
