Thy Sweet Practiser
When do-sed dram or weigh-ted dusts / no remedy impart
Clinical
Resident Physician Contributing Writer
University of Missouri School of Medicine
El Salvador born, Canadian raised. Graduate of the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto and Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara School of Medicine. Currently a Family and Community Medicine third-year resident at the University of Missouri.
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
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.
Family Doc Diary: February 12, 2017
Join me as I reflect on the challenges and joys of being a family medicine resident physician through the pages of my personal journal.
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.
On Being a Doctor
With just a few months left of residency, I’ve started to pay a lot more attention to what is going on around me. I’m realizing what a unique perspective we have as housestaff physicians. The best way for me to explain what I mean is with this story of one particularly busy shift in the ER.
Resident Physician Columnist
University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
Srijna is an internal medicine resident physician at UT Health Northeast.
consci/o- [in medical terminology: a connection deep to a state of understanding]
All physicians are taught to communicate with a fundamental language of healing and justice. This column is a collection of reflections on how I learned this fundamental language and an homage to the teachers who taught me.