Category: NICU
Before they can let their child go, some parents need to see that everything that can be done has been done-and sometimes, we agree to cause a child prolonged suffering in order to fill that need.
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Category: Adolescent Medicine
For most of my adolescence, all I wanted was for someone to sit me down and say, "Your body isn't what makes you worth loving," but it didn't come-not for years.
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Category: NICU
Today, I admitted a week-old baby whose mother didn't know she was pregnant until she gave birth to him.
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Category: Navel-gazing
I don't think I'm anxious about working in the NICU, although God knows I've got reasons to be.
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Category: Pediatrics
Somehow, once I resigned myself to wanting to be trained in pediatrics and began interacting more with kids, I found that being "good" with them only meant wanting to be around them.
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