“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” -Ghandi Happy Doctor’s Day to my fellow physicians. We don’t typically celebrate this day with any fanfare, but it often is a time where we feel as though our work matters, because someone thought at some point there needed …
“Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding your way through it.” -Bear Gryllis Winter in the Emergency Department is chaos normally. Viral illnesses permeate our population, and the season is usually from November to March or later. Young moms get nervous, fevers get really high, and …
‘What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.’ —Rumi It is hard to believe it is already December. I can’t think of a time when I felt as though so much had happened in the space of 12 months as it did this last year. My husband and I recently ‘got away’ which …
“Only the good die young.”—Billy Joel *My friend, Kristen Spangler recently passed away after suffering from colon cancer, which was diagnosed merely 13 months ago. We are the same age, and I am grappling with my many feelings of loss and sadness about her death. I want to properly memorialize her life and share what she meant to …
“Every Intern makes mistakes. The important thing is to neither make the same mistakes twice, nor to make a whole bunch of mistakes all at once.” —Samuel Shem, “House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital.” It’s July. Our 2019-2020 academic year has officially started, and my days …