Heartbeat
There is a small, white heart drawn on the sign outside the labor and delivery room. It is an inconspicuous sign, powder blue and simple.
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A first time for everything
I fidgeted uncomfortably, trying to hide the fact that my hands were shaking. Dr. Shepherd scrolled through the patient’s electronic medical records, leaning over with
Read MoreThe other ninety percent
Identifying details here have been changed to protect patient privacy. I knocked on the door of the examination room with my preceptor behind me and
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Losing Darren
Identifying details here have been changed to protect patient privacy. It wasn’t that the smile itself had an eerie quality—it was how the smile fell
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Fracture registries and fjords – a Norwegian travel experience
Through Baylor Global Initiatives, I won a scholarship allowing me to travel to Norway for six weeks in summer 2015 and work with the orthopedic
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Foot health: steps in the right direction
Foot health is not something that patients think about very often. Feet are very far away (relatively speaking) and often hiding inside shoes (out of
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How fears change
By Anup Shah, MS4 When medical students start their clinical rotations, there seems to be a fear that comes with presenting a patient to residents
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The skydiver
By Donna Huang, Medical Resident He was a man who could fly, or at least “fall for a long time,” as he liked to explain with
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The first time your patient dies
By Anup Shah, MS4 (Author’s Note: It has been over a year since this patient passed, but I continue to remember this as one of
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Worth the wait
By Julia McGuinness, MS4 Editor’s Note: All names have been changed and all patient identifiers have been removed from this story. I will not lie.
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