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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
