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The First Admit
I admitted my first patient today.
Last month I worked on a consult service–so I never had any of my “own” patients.
That all changed today when I admitted a patient with pulmonary hypertension.
It was mostly grunt work–filling out orders, doing a rectal, etc. Ya know, the normal intern stuff. We got the patient a [...]
Laws of the House of God
There’s a very famous book in medical circles entitled The House of God that deals with the life of an intern at a major U.S. hospital during the 1970s.
It is hilarious. It is frightening. It is dark. It is…well…damn good. Imagine Catch-22 for medicine and you can begin to understand the style of Samuel Shem’s [...]
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