Category: Intern Year

Interning 101: How to call a (Surgical) Consult

“Stop. STOP! Hold on. I’m a pea brained surgeon. Let’s go back for a minute.” Pictured: Surgery resident receiving a consult – A dramatic rendition. I never thought I would be an angry person. I never thought I would enjoy lobster. I thought wrong on both accounts. Residency has this way of changing you in

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Months 0 and 1: Moving to St. Louis and the World of Trauma Nights

When somebody is crashing, you don’t see anyone screaming to call the pediatric endocrinologists. They call the surgeons. Part of this passage was written by me back in August of 2017, and the latter half by me in late 2018. The verb tenses and tones will give it away. It had been a crazy two

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A Letter to the New Interns

They can always hurt you more, but they can’t stop the clock -Revised Law of the House of God (AKA probably plagiarism by me) (Image above is me stuck in a chair in our workroom. Residency is hard) To the graduates of medical schools across the nation, you wonderful newly minted doctors…on behalf of physicians

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