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True Stories From the Front Lines of Medicine During my Chief Residency (fifth and last) year of surgical training, I was working at the large academic hospital for a three month rotation. During this...
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True Stories From The Front Lines Of Medicine Patients die. It is a sad fact of life for all physicians, but particularly acute for us surgeons. When I operate on an individual, they have entrusted...
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The other night, my wife got a call from a relative that she hadn’t spoken to in quite a while. The woman called during dinner, of course. Why people capable of calculating compound interest on their...
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The young resident was flabbergasted to learn, in casual conversation, that the attending radiologist sitting next to him all morning had been in the Marines prior to going to medical school. “Wow,”...
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