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The certainty

It is a spectacle most powerful for the sheer simultaneousness of the reactions it elicits. The vindication for some, the crushing devastation of ego for others--I still shudder when I recall the faces in my medical school's big auditorium on Match Day.

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Posted on March 12, 2007 10:37 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

F*cked

I am totally f*cked.

Posted on February 12, 2007 10:26 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Home on paper

Deep inside, in the part of me that is not an intern, I am happy for patients when they get to leave the hospital. But the rest of me-especially the part that operates computers and makes phone calls-seethes.

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Posted on December 22, 2006 3:31 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Sleep ethic

It's a pretty common thing for residents on call to stay awake in order to stay awake, with the endpoint of saying to their colleagues, "I stayed awake."

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Posted on November 22, 2006 12:37 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Marathon runner

The kind of people who run marathons are the kind of people who are completely OK with being told to work 27 hours in a row without sleep.

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Posted on July 17, 2006 10:32 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Don't bother trying to learn anything

Your quality as an intern is measured by your efficiency, not by how much you read. Don't bother trying to learn anything; when you have free time, sleep, eat, or pee.

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Posted on June 25, 2006 10:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

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