Kind of your job
Category: ICU
In my intern's anxiety over patient death, there might have been more than mere laziness.
Posted by Signout at 4:22 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Signout is hospital slang for the transfer of information between patient care teams. It is also the name of this blog, which represents one of the less dysfunctional ways in which Dr. Signout copes with her participation in a U.S. medical residency program.
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End-of-Life Care:
Patients affect us in this way
When my patients cry--and they do, often--I sit down. When Dr. Leaky cried, I stood up.
Posted by Signout at 10:03 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 by Signout at 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 by Signout at 12:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Different conversation
Category: ICU
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 by Signout at 5:39 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The new black
Category: Hematology-Oncology
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 by Signout at 3:18 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Weighing something
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.
Posted by Signout at 3:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
