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Today was my first day at Baptist hospital. It's only a mile from Vanderbilt. I'm on my OB/GYN rotation, and I get to spend 2 weeks ...

I knew it would happen sooner or later. Everyone eventually has a patient die. I'm sure other patients of mine had died before, but this...

I'm going to Portugal in about a month. I always travel with my large camping backpack, a trusty REI Valhalla. I first got it in the 8...

I came out of the shower and dried myself with a huge white towel. Something caught my eye. What was that on my back? It was dark, but I cou...

A patient comes in today. Middle-aged man, slightly balding. He had headaches that just wouldn't go away. So we got a MRI of his brain. ...

Mr. T came to the hospital to detox for his sixth time, and he was only 25 years old. He was taking large amounts of Valium, booze, and opia...

The thought of death is terrifying to me. You would think, being a medical student, that it would be natural... In some ways it is. But in...

So this saturday, I got up at 6 in the morning so I could be rowing at 7. The only problem is that our coxswain was half an hour late. Her...

So I spent this summer in England, studying for Step I of the NBME examination (the first step to becoming a licensed physician). This was ...

Wow, so much has happened since I last posted. I went to England to study for my step I board exams, and that seemed to go fairly well. Wh...