Thy Sweet Practiser
When do-sed dram or weigh-ted dusts / no remedy impart
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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.
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.
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.
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.