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Infinity Time
At my current place of work, administrators and my clinical bosses are very obsessed with how I spend each hour of my day. Each clinical activity I perform, whether it be a half-day in clinic, or a week managing the inpatient consultation service, or the ICU, is assigned a certain number of hours. I also…
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Did I Make a Huge Mistake?
Fresh off of graduating from internal medicine residency and before starting my fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, I met someone at a social function who turned out to be another physician. After exchanging the customary greetings, we sized up one another’s work credentials, as typical healthcare workers do. The most frequent reactions I…
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We Are Not Okay
A not so distant morning past, another physician and I happened to get in the elevator together on our way into the hospital. I didn’t know her, and she didn’t know me, I had never seen her before, and I have never seen her since. “Morning, how are you?” I asked without enthusiasm, the usual,…
The Doc Diaries
Musings of a burnt out ICU doctor
