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Resident Physician Contributing Writer
Medical College of Wisconsin
I'm originally a Mountaineer from the hills of West Virginia. I love football, animals, reading, running, and exploring with my husband and daughter.
If You Don’t Have Time To Meditate For An Hour
Prior to starting medical school, I meditated for an hour every morning. There is a Zen proverb that goes something like this: “If you don’t have time to meditate for an hour everyday, you should meditate for two hours.”
Suicide
It’s been about three years since Jacob committed suicide. In the high turnover microcosm of general surgery residency, there aren’t many who remember him.
Pull the Thread: A Perspective from Hematology-Oncology Attending and Writer
Writing is the greatest self-excavation tool I have found. It was always something I enjoyed, but during my medical training it became something much more important than that.
The Old Man in Bed 3
Medical alert, paged — STAT to Bed 3 / The nurse comes a runnin’ — we need an MD!
Klimt, Modernism, and Art’s Relationship with Medicine
In 1894, the State Ministry of Culture, Religion, and Education in Vienna commissioned three paintings for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna to celebrate the institutions accomplishments of Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence. When the artist who painted these works chose to make a bold stylistic statement, all three were heavily criticized for their eroticism, obscenity, and “ugliness.”
Screening: A Haiku
A haiku about screening for colon cancer.
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.
MICU Poem
Easter Sunday, intern year / MICU long-call consult resident / 41-year-old female
Resident Physician Contributing Writer
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Cameron Gettel is a PGY-2 in the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Brown University in Providence, RI.