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When my patients cry--and they do, often--I sit down. When Dr. Leaky cried, I stood up.Posted on September 15, 2007 10:03 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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End-of-Life Care:
What we're supposed to do
As I've become angrier and angrier with our decision-making process in cardiology, I've become more and more distant from my patients and their families.Posted on April 2, 2007 10:02 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As if from inside the earth
"I'm a sick, sad old man," he said, and was quiet for a while. Then, foggily, as if from inside the earth, he said, "Is this worth it?"Posted on March 9, 2007 12:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Different conversation
Back in October, I admitted a patient to the general medicine service with a three-week history of abdominal pain and progressively yellowing eyes. She was a large, pleasant, quiet black woman who was almost always accompanied by her husband, a...Posted on January 28, 2007 5:39 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The new black
I just finished a rotation in pediatric hematology and oncology, where almost all of the kids I was taking care of had cancer. Most had leukemia or lymphoma with prognoses that were varying degrees of good. A few had other,...Posted on January 14, 2007 3:18 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Weighing something
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.Posted on October 28, 2006 3:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
