Oct 29, 2018
"I wondered to myself … knowing what I now did, would I be comfortable seeing this patient again? Could I rely on myself to give careful, considerate thought to his overall well-being? Would I be willing to be his doctor?" Medical student Walter Klyce describes coming to terms with caring for a patient who made...
Oct 15, 2018
"We stood together, not as doctor and patient, but as lovers of the written word arrested by its enduring beauty." Internal medicine resident Dominic Decker describes connecting with a patient, not over her diagnosis or treatment but over their shared love of poetry. His essay was published in the Teaching and...