Screening: A Haiku
A haiku about screening for colon cancer.
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Fellow Physician Contributing Writer
Lehigh Valley Health Network
First-year gastroenterology fellow with the Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, PA. Originally from Summit, NJ. Attended Georgetown University graduating with a BS in biochemistry in 2009 and an MD in 2013. Completed 3-year internal medicine residency at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia.
Thy Sweet Practiser
When do-sed dram or weigh-ted dusts / no remedy impart
Parting Soon
How do you enjoy that / Which will be gone — sooner than someday?
“Compassion”
“Compassion” / A pale moon hangs above / The workroom clock reads six, but / Is it day or night?
Scar
His mother asks whether or not there will be a scar. I tell her yes. We’ll do our best to make it small, but there will be a scar.
To Preside
Shrouded in a plastic blanket / Raising the temperature of your / Frail limbs and famished core
The Masters of Patchwork
Come one, come all, to the emergency room / It’s one a.m., and the rashes are in bloom
Santa Claus Pajamas
Tommy became my patient about halfway through my PICU rotation. He arrived as a transfer from an outside hospital due to concern for liver failure, and on a morning when we already had four admissions, he became another checkbox on my to-do list.
Two Years Post the Match: A PGY-2 Story
I had such difficulty explaining to my family and friends not in medicine the concept of the match. I finally settled on a lottery-Bachelor fusion to explain it. Just replace the aspiring lovers with program directors and medical students, and roses with Match Day letters.
My Thoughts on Intern Year, Expressed Through a History & Physical
My early idea of what it meant to be a intern came from a combination of pop culture physician idols (i.e. ER) and a handful of actual medical experiences. A dive headfirst from a shopping cart at young age earned me my first trip to the emergency room.
Surviving Residency: 5 Tips You Didn’t Know You Already Knew
Residency is hard. Anyone who tells you differently needs a stat GI consult because they’re full of it. You will be tired physically, mentally, and emotionally, regardless of what specialty you enter.
The Intern
From the moment I set foot in the hospital as an intern on June 24, 2016 at 4:55 a.m. to the present as I write this reflection, my life feels as though it were playing in fast forward. It is hard to believe Match Day was almost a year ago.
Resident Physician Contributing Writer
Lehigh Valley Health Network
Originally from Boston then Chicago for medical school, I am now a plastics-integrated intern at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, PA. I am also an avid foodie, dancer, and creative writer.