Jan 24, 2022
I realized I never processed what I witnessed, experienced, and lived through. I put it all in a box so I could keep going to work. I sealed the box so that nothing could escape and distract me from the mission at hand: caring for critically ill patients.
Amanda S. Xi, a critical care anesthesiologist in the...
Jan 17, 2022
I choose to view this not as a story of bias against me, but instead of my attending’s patience and perseverance. His uncompromising kindness made the patient blind to his own preconceived notions. I try to be a role model for my own residents the way that he was for me.
Deepa Danan, assistant professor and medical...
Jan 10, 2022
The formative experience I had long sought emerged outside the context of feedback itself. I had spent my rotation in search of people who would change me, but I had not expected to find them dressed in johnnies rather than long white coats.
Grace Ferri, a fourth-year medical student at Boston University School of...
Dec 27, 2021
With the mask muffling my voice and the omnipresent sound of monitor alarms, words too, were strained. I grew irate at the situation. The inability to talk. The inability to connect. The inability to touch.
Graduate nursing student Hunter Marshall reflects on isolation and connection during the chaos of the COVID-19...
Dec 20, 2021
Even in the age of medical miracles, there is still no intervention more powerful than a genuine human connection. There is no lab, no scan, no test, no drug, no surgery, that can replace it. For the soul heals not by human medicine, but human kindness.
Medical student Ross Perry reflects on the most important lesson he...